My Men's Diet Program Results & Review

My Cinch Diet Plan Weight Loss Progress

One week of regular use shows results. And some of my residual skepticism is laid to rest.

At Cinchclub.com, I recorded my measurements, a few days after I actually started the diet. (This is accessible there under Your Profile.)

Today, after 10 days on the diet, I revisited this page. (Why not a week? Because I've been busy - all that energy I have now.) And you can see by the screenshot what my progress was. (That picture can be opened in a new window - right click - to see it larger if you want.)

It's not that I lost 4 pounds, but also that some other sizes started shrinking as well. What I measure for my waist is actually my gut. That's what I want to lose. When my pants get noticeably too loose, then I'll know it already. (I have a target pair of pants I want to fit back into, BTW. A real acid test.)

The surprise was that I'd lost some inches here and there I wasn't noticing. Arm and thigh stayed the same (like I said, I work on the farm every day - and don't really want to lose muscle) but my chest got smaller as well as my hips and waist.

So this is all good news. And I'll celebrate by - staying on the diet. Well, I'm going to check out some new shake recipes and maybe invent some more.

I went ahead and got that "Magic Bullet" blender. There were others on the market, but they were either harder to clean out or more expensive with fewer features. Main reason I switched from my earlier one was that I had to use a tall (20oz.) glass and hold onto it while I mixed - since I only got a stirrer with a motor attached. With the "Magic Bullet", you simply pour everything into one of their clear plastic jars, screw on the lid and press it into the mixer. Easy to clean, plus you can do it one-handed. (So naturally, I promote what works for me.)

More information about the Cinch Inch-Loss Diet Plan can be found as linked below:

 
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And more information is available from Amazon about that Magic Bullet:

Diet Plan Tips: Watch Your Portions

In any Diet Plan, Portion Sizes Matter

Figure that if you are, like me and my friends, working off some excess poundage and weight, we've been eating more than we needed to.

Regardless of how we got here, or our reasons, the bottom line is to exercise more and eat less. And why I like the Cinch Inch Loss Diet Plan is because you can use their supplements to ensure you have the nutrition you need while shrinking your physical and mental stomach size.

Yesterday's lunch brought this home to me. Of course, those potatoes in butter were great tasting - and I've started being hungry at meals again - but when I swallowed that along with the french bread dipped in coffee with honey, well it was simply too much. Just being 4 or 5 days on this diet has made me not want the big meals I used to. Mentally and physically.

The study then goes to exactly what should I be eating, and more importantly, how much at each meal?

Back to my Cinch Program Guide - well, I actually found the image in my Daily Journal that they send you in your Transformation Kit. (You'll have to excuse these scans - that Daily Journal is really small - tiny, in fact.)

Here's what they say your portion sizes should be. Figure I was eating several of those "mice" over there in the image. Way over the top.

Now I'm no small guy, so I'm used to eating enough to "keep my energy up". This is just a guideline, right?

For most of us, living and working on a real farm every day isn't an option. I can see that it's more a luxury than most people want to invest in their lives.

Personally, that BMI index is off, since I'm more on the body-building end of things as opposed to a small-framed guy who's a hundred pounds over the scale. But it doesn't mean there isnt' something to learn here, something to improve on.

And when I'm uncomfortable with how much I just ate, well, that's a sign to follow.

How we got into this mess - food quality

It's like we're on an endless treadmill which is getting harder and harder to turn. The cycle goes like this:

• Shortcuts in processing food increases profit, but decreases food quality.
• As well, by including excess fats, salts, and sugars, food becomes addictive.
• The body is missing nutrients and so we need to eat more food quantity to get them.
• We turn to our "favorite" foods which are also "convenient" and contain less of what we need and more of what we don't.
• So our bodies store the excess calories in our fat cells.
• Meanwhile, our metabolism slows down. We don't want to move much.
• So we store more excess food in our fat cells.
• But to feel better, we eat more.
• And move less.
• And get fatter.
• Finally, our health begins to fail.

The solution is to eat less and exercise more. The trick is that unless you change your diet to a healthy one, you are going to be on that same treadmill. Most diets just cut calories and don't concentrate on keeping your metabolism high as well.  So you don't feel good, and are hungry a lot of the time. So the diet "doesn't work" and you go off it.

One report has it that 90% of our diets are pre-processed food. And every time you process something, you lose nutrients. It's long been known that the best tasting coffee is fresh ground, then brewed. The best bread is ground into flour and then immediately cooked into loaves. Beef that's raised without additives (grass fed) and then processed as itself (like wholesale beef by the quarter) has the highest possible nutrient level - depending on what's in that pasture grass in terms of minerals.

This leads me right back into why I got into this Cinch Diet Plan, even though I'm not particularly overweight (well, a little goes a long way, doesn't it?)

I'm in this as a way to restore my own body's natural balance. So I have to get this excess fat off, as well as all the various stuff I've stored there. I want to keep my muscle mass intact and energy levelhigh.

So today's tip(s): Watch your portions. Make sure your food is locally cooked from whole (and preferably fresh) foods. And get those pre-processed temptations out of your home.

Follow those and you'll get your fat, salt, and sugar intake back to where it should always have been. 

Get Toxic Cleaners out of your Farm Shop

How a Farmer Gets By Without Toxic Shop Chemicals

Practically, I don't know how anyone could get by without killing themselves off from fumes. I was in the shop today, and was marvelling again at how much I can get from my 5 gallon bucket of Basic H Classic. Every farmer should have one out there.

First, I wanted to mix up some bug spray to keep the mosquitoes off me. That's an easy one (and a friend recently tested this for me while mowing his lawn - not a single bite):

Half water, half Basic H (put the water in first, or you'll have foam all over the place.

I pick up other people's trash all the time and like to re-use (recycle) it when I can. Occasionally, I find old plastic fifth's tossed out. Those hip flasks. When they are plastic, you can take a pop-top screw-on lid and you can then squeeze a squirt out, rub it on.

The Mechanic's Friend.

I work with oil and grease every day, it seems. So when I get it on my hands, it usually sinks in and is hard to get off. Usually, I have to do a two-step process to get it off, first some sort of cleanser, and then soap and water to get the cleanser off. In both cases, I'm left with something that makes my food smell different when my hand gets near my mouth and nose.I don't need another adventure when I come in for lunch.

Solution is the same bottle and mix. Just put it on before you start to work and rub it in good, let it dry. Then you simply put your hands under running water to get rid of it.

A note here: it only takes a drop in your pet water to act as a de-wormer, so don't wash your hands over something they use to drink out of - they won't use it. Wash it over some patch of lawn you can mow. The grass will soak it up and love it - but I have that problem right now with that spot of grass much taller than everything else as it's gotten the run off from my "experiments" but I can't mow right there. (Have to clip it by hand - or maybe pull out that clump and feed it to the cattle, then replace with gravel and rock. Add it to my "To-Do" list - [sigh].)

Here's another note: if you accidentally leave the pop-top open, it's only going to clean your truck seat and jeans, not dissolve them.

A Natural Degreaser without Fumes.

I use the Cattle Spray formula, which is a bit thinner. 1 part Basic H to 6 parts water. That's thicker than they recommend for just degreasing, but easier to remember. (And I'm still old school with habits like: use a lot to fix something better.)

This one I put in a spray bottle - and mark it so no one else will pick it up. (I've already had that happen.) What's great about this is that it isn't some aerosol, and you don't mind if it gets tipped over or leaks on something. It's not going to take paint or skin or lung tissue out when you use it. So you can use it more often.

The spray bottle is adjustable for a mist or a direct, focused stream about 5-6 ft. away. I went and bought one of these, as the old ones were in use or worn out.

I've even found that it does pretty well on sticky bolts or  hinges as a temporary fix. It's a bit of a lubricant as well. Since it's all natural, it will simply wash off. So it's a great degreaser, since you don't have to be concerned too much about where all that oil is going to as you do rinse it. And I've used it on projects where I didn't want to put the various gaskets at risk by putting a toxic solvent on them.

You should see my tractor oil radiator. Never could get it clean before this, mostly because I didn't trust being able to get those commercial degreasers completely off with just water. This just sprayed on, left it for a bit (did the other side of the tractor) then came back and washed it off with a garden hose. I'll post a picture when I can (camera-phone ran out of juice at the wrong moment.)

That bottle in the middle is a honey jar (empty when I started) as it squeezes out well for bigger messes, and is easy to pick up and hold with a gloved hand.

Which brings up the other use - taking it out with me to put on a cow's head (right around the horns where they like to be scratched, even the polled ones - and that honey-jar size ensures I won't run out easily.

Other Basic H uses

Well, there are a lot. Today, I took that flask (as it was in my pocket - nice size and shape, eh?) and put some on my dog where I know she couldn't lick it. I felt a tick around her ear and she didn't want me to mess with it. This stuff is also great as tick repellant and flea dip/shampoo. As well, the dogs don't mind it, as it doesn't have a perceptible smell to humans.

She's had some fleas at the beginning of winter, but didn't want me picking them off, so I just sprayed a house version of degreaser on it (2 ounces Basic H per gallon of water - divide by 8 to fit into a 16 oz. spray bottle) on her stomach and she seemed to like it. And they didn't bother her again.

For ag uses, I've got a lot more listed on my Worstell Farms site, under Agriculture News & Information. It's good as a soil conditioner, which is what I bought it for (one quart Basic H per 50 gallons water) and some even use it to both pre-treat seeds and also to fatten stock on feed. (But Shaklee doesn't test on animals, so your mileage is your own. But there have been some university studies conducted some years ago with Basic H.)

 

 

 

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3 choices to lose weight by a healthy diet plan- all good ones.

Cinch Sampler vs. Starter Plan vs. Transformation Kit

Now what I didn't expect was all these choices. In what I read about the Cinch Package, I thought I would be getting a tape measure, odometer, mixer, and 3-month free subscription to cinchwellness.com - but that's not what happened. So I called Shaklee's 1-800 number (1.800-SHAKLEE) and found out there are two different plans and the sampler.

The Transformation Kit Offer and the Sampler both expire on March 31 - unless they extend it again (which I was told happened last year, but that's just the rumor - if you want to get in on this year's special, click on the links below.)

This post is to explain that there are 3 ways to get into Cinch Diet Plan:

"Free" Cinch Sampler:

You simply join as a member with a $70 purchase and get the Cinch Sampler for free.

What you get is:

• 1 box of Cinch Snack Bars (Assortment Pack)
• 1 box of Cinch Pomegranate Energy Tea Mix
• 1 bottle of Cinch 3-in-1 Boost™ (42 tablets)
• 1 Cinch Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Meal-in-a-Bar
• 1 Cinch Blueberry Almond Crisp Meal-in-a-Bar
• 2 packets of Cinch Shake Mix (1 Vanilla, 1 Chocolate)
• 1 Cinch Transformation Pack Brochure

This pack can be yours for free if you join Shaklee as a:

• Member or a Distributor with a minimum $70 pre-tax product order
• GOLD with a GOLD PAK, GOLD Plus PAK, or Super GOLD PAK

Cinch Starter Kit:

With membership, this is under $200. And you can buy this year-round.

Your Cinch Starter Kit includes:

• Vanilla shake mix canister (15 servings)
• Assorted Cinch shake packets (14 packets)
• 3-in-1 boost™(42 count)
• Assortment pack snack bars (10 count)
• Energy tea mix (28 sticks)
• Daily journals (2)
• Cinch program guide
• Cinch logo shaker cup
• Cinch pedometer
• Cinch tape measure

Plus, FREE 3 month access to Cinchwellness.com with purchase of a Cinch Starter Kit. (Cinchwellness.com features meal and exercise plans, exercise examples, meal tracking, wellness workshops, community message boards, wellness articles written by Dr. Jamie McManus and more. Offer must be redeemed within 90 days of purchase of Cinch Starter Kit. Offer subject to discontinuation without notice. Monthly cinchwellness.com access charge of $3.50 begins in fourth month.)

Product Brief on this is here.

What you get is enough to get you started, about 2 week's worth. You'll run out of snack bars, but have extra tea left over.

Cinch Transformation Kit:

This is a special offer which also ends March 31. 

Your Cinch Transformation Pack Includes:

• 1 Cinch Vanilla Shake Mix canister
• 1 Cinch Chocolate Shake Mix canister
• 1 Cinch Shake Mix Assortment Pack
• 1 box of Cinch Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Meal-in-a-Bar
• 1 box of Cinch Blueberry Almond Crisp Meal-in-a-Bar
• 1 box of Cinch Peanut Butter Crunch Snack Bars
• 1 box of Cinch Lemon Cranberry Snack Bars
• 1 box of Cinch Chocolate Decadence Snack Bars
• 1 box of Cinch Pomegranate Energy Tea Mix
• 1 bottle of Cinch 3-in-1 Boost™

This is under $300 for members, and is enough stuff to keep you going for a month (more or less). When you subtract that extra month, this brings it down to around $250 per month.  Except for February, you are going to run out of most of this on the end of that last week.  That has a few solutions, most of which are obvious.

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So now we are all educated on this, aren't we?

Lots of options to chose from.

If you want to just check out the quality of the Cinch Diet Plan products, then get some Vitalizer and you'll get a free sampler.

If you want to check out how the diet works by trying it for a couple of weeks, then get the Starter Kit.

If you are serious about losing weight (and saving money) then set up the Transformation Kit on autoship.

Now that I've figured all this out, it's quite simple.

Hoping it's that way for you, now, too.

PS. If you have any questions or need help, click here for contact information.

To buy beef online is a healthy choice.

Not close to our Missouri Farm? Buy Beef Online.

I know more people see my articles and site than can buy my beef. And maybe people don't want a wholesale beef quarter or half, much less a whole.

And this has led me to research for companies who do the extra step of getting their beef USDA inspected and packaged so they can ship it all over the country (interstate commerce and all those regulations.)

The one company I've found which fits our standards is U.S. Wellness. And interestingly enough, it's also based in Missouri.

This research took me into the reviews as well as to their website. You know that when you ask for "review [website/product]" and only come up with positives, you just hit a home run. Because the best most companies can get is 50% - seriously.

Now the main difference in the way they do beef is that they wet age. This isn't like the big vertically-integrated corporations - which "wet-age" on the truck going from plant to supermarket. They age their beef for 30 days, but vacuum pack the primals. And so the flavor isn't as intense as dry-aged, since the meat doesn't dry out as much. But the enzymes still go to work at breaking down the meat to make it more tender. Meanwhile, they've protected the beef from other pathogens. (See their FAQs.)

Once it's aged to their satisfaction, they then cut it into portions. Then it's frozen - unless you want their fresh chilled beef (a special order) which is never frozen.

According to Local Harvest: http://www.localharvest.org/us-wellness-meats-M24454

US Wellness Meats was founded and is operated by four family farm families who are committed to improving the quality of life for our customers by providing premium quality, health-enhancing grass-fed beef and natural meat products that meet their nutritional needs.

We offer grass-fed beef, veal, bison, lamb, and dairy products as well as certified humane pork, organic snacks, and more. We use no pesticides, herbicides, hormones or antibiotics, or chemicals. Our grass-fed beef is aged 28 days for maximum flavor and tenderness.

(This listing was last updated on Aug 30, 2011)

Location:

204 East Lafayette
Monticello, MO 63457

Contact Information:

John Wood
www.uswellnessmeats.com
(877) 383-0051

 

Mailing Address:

PO Box 9
Monticello, MO 63457

Farming Practices:

naturally grown, grass fed/pastured, animal welfare/humane certified

Review of U.S. Wellness Products

And this one review (from Real Food Whole Health) I thought to share with you, as it comes from the heart and ahe a lot of good data in it:

Working with our nutritional therapy clients and spreading the real food message of sourcing QUALITY foods, there’s something we hear quite often…” I want to eat healthy real foods, but there’s no store or farm near me that has {insert real food here}”

Grassfed beef, pastured chicken and pork, raw milk cheese from grassfed cows, bacon or sausages made from pastured animals and without nitrates/nitrites, etc. are all healthful foods that can be very difficult to locate in the typical supermarket. It’s true that, in many places it’s difficult to find any of these products even at a local farm, much less ALL from one location. And with our busy lifestyles, it can be hard to find time to go to 5 or 6 different places.

Enter U.S. Wellness Meats.

This fantastic family-run business started back in 2000, with just one goal- to provide high quality grass-fed (and grass-finished) beef to consumers. They succeeded. U.S. Wellness Meats grass-fed beef  is recognized for its exceptional taste, quality and health benefits by chefs, professional athletes, and health and nutrition experts, including yours truly.

Today, eleven years later, U.S. Wellness Meats has joined with like-minded small family farms across the country to expand its offerings to include grass-fed lamb, bison, and goat, as well as grass-fed butter and cheese, free-range poultry, pork products, honey, organic nuts and condiments as well as kitchen and personal care products. When you order from U.S. Wellness Meats you know you are getting the high-quality products you want to provide for your family.

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Overall, our culinary tour of U.S. Wellness Meats was a smashing success and each product I would order again. There are so many more options in their line that I want to try as well- different varieties of raw milk cheeses, rabbit, bison (which I love!) and all the different sausages. There is also an impressive array of organ meats, sourced from healthy animals, and those are nutrient-dense superstars that I am working hard to incorporate into our diet.

The customer service that we’ve received has always been outstanding and the shipping was fast, with extreme care taken to package everything so that it stays protected and fresh during shipping. All of my items were still frozen solid! If you haven’t checked out U.S. Wellness Meats, we highly suggest that you do so- you won’t be disappointed!

Again, that's U.S Wellness Meats - check them out!

Cinch Diet Plan - Only Eat When You're Hungry...

Are you eating when you're hungry, or because you're "supposed to?"

I've pulled this article from Cinchclub.com as I've run into this recently. (You might have to sign in to read it.) Only when I started the Cinch diet did I actually come to the table hungry and ready to eat something. Before that, with all the various snacks I was eating, I was never really hungry - so was simply keeping some extra fat around (and I just saw another article about what is stored along with that fat.)

And that's a key point. We are over-eating ourselves to death. Literally. If you are paying to have a doctor see you every year for some illness, then you are paying for something you could have prevented. The other day I saw a lady (yes, she was overweight/obese) who pulled almost 2 dozen different pills out of her purse so she could go over her daily regimen with a technician-specialist. But we know that Type 2 Diabetes is preventable if they are just caused by diet. That coronary conditions are preventable if they are just caused by diet. And the list goes on.

If it's not hereditary, then you can probably do something to keep from having that disease (and even if it is...) Because overweight is what's causing most of these "epidemic" illnesses in our adults and our kids.

Too often we are eating because it's that time of day, not because we really need food in our system. With snack machines and coffee shops and fast food joints all over the place, it's too easy to get someone else to sell you something that the body doesn't need and isn't useful (and meanwhile adding artery-clogging fat into your system, too much high-blood-pressure salt, and/or too much adrenal-gland-stimulating sugar.)

You actually can save money by cutting out the pre-processed, junk, and convenience foods - more than you'd really need to pay for quality supplements. (See this page about how much a Cinch shake costs compared to a Big Mac meal or a Starbucks and scone, or even a Subway sandwich.)

What I realized with this diet is that food actually started tasting better because I was hungry enough to want it. And the body rewards you for treating it right, doesn't it?

But I wasn't starving, and I have plenty of energy all day - until it's time to sleep. And that is the difference I've seen with reviews of other diets. Cinch keeps you full enough to not want to have to eat something else. I wouldn't think a single shake or a meal bar would ever keep me - but they do. Day in and day out.

Satisfied.

Like it should be.

Knowing True Hunger

Are you hungry? Sounds like a simple question doesn't it? But the truth is most of us eat in response to environmental triggers instead of responding to true biological hunger. We learn early on that it's sometimes better to eat everything on the plate instead of struggle with mom or dad, or to suffer through a plate of broccoli so we can have dessert. We learn to eat because food smells good, it's "lunch time," or because we are bored. As a result, we ignore our own body signals and eat whether we are truly hungry or not.

So do you know what your biological signals for hunger are? Is it a mild stomach growling, an empty feeling inside, or something else? Take some time to identify what your body's first signs of hunger are. Use the following hunger-rating chart to assess where you usually start eating and where you stop.

10. Thanksgiving stuffed
9. so full it hurts
8. feeling quite full
7. starting to feel uncomfortable
6. slightly ate too much
5. just right, you feel comfortable
4. first signs it's time to eat
3. strong signs that it's time to eat
2. very hungry, cranky
1. extremely hungry, dizzy and weak

If you start eating at a "5" or higher, you are eating for external reasons and not because you are biologically hungry. On the other hand, if you wait too long to eat and you start eating at a "1" or a "2," you were overly hungry and most likely will end up overeating. Starting to eat at a "3" or "4" is perfect. At this level, your body is telling you that it's time for some nourishment but not to eat the entire box or bag of something.

If you stop at a "6" or above, you are overeating (when we eat because of external reasons, we tend to overeat). It's also important to remember that if you overeat even healthy foods, those extra calories will be converted to fat and stored in your body. You should aim to stop eating at a "5," when you are feeling perfectly comfortable. At this level, you have taken in the right amount of food to nourish your body, but not too much so that it will be stored as fat.

Review: Free Online Weight Lost Center - Cinch Club

Cinch Club - Free Online Weight Loss Center

Of the two online weight loss centers which Shaklee provides, the Cinchclub.com is the free one. And what we'll review today.

It's remarkably easy to sign up for. (Did I mention it's free?!?) And behind the login as a real wealth of data.

And we could spend all day just talking about the points that are available here. But I haven't gotten through all of them yet, myself.

Of course there the forums, where you can interact with like-minded people. But the recipes are great - to both get your weight and size down to where you want it, and also to train yourself in low-calorie-but-great-tasting ways to keep it there. Well over 60 different ones, many of them weight loss shake and smoothie recipes. Plus, they're all PDF's for easy download and printing. I hope to share many of these with you in the coming months.

The articles is another high point, however. Just that one in the image above is something else. Did you know that if you eat just before sleeping, your body tries to burn it off like you are awake? This could be the reason for all those wild dreams. And then, being tired the next day, you're wanting to eat more as your metabolism is lousy. Perfect diet-buster. Lesson? Keep to a schedule which has the last food at least 3 hours before sleeping. Again, I hope to excerpt these as I review this site later.

A next section to investigate (and there are so many options, a great site overall) is their Resources section - which is linked at the top of every page.

A really useful link is that "Meal Plans" section above. You select your goal (lose weight or maintain weight), then what type of meal (regular, no dairy, no red meat, lacto-ovo-vegetarian) and then calorie level (1200, 1500, 1800, or 2100). When you click on Get Meal Plan, then a pdf comes up, ready to download.

Recipes and articles are also linked here, only you get right to the "View All" page. 

Up at the top, you can see a "Cinch-U", which is 12 weeks worth of courses that you can take to learn all about dieting and what you need to know to succeed. The first week is open to anyone (who doesn't want to sign up free) and tells you simply how the Cinch Inch Loss diet plan works, plus why you should exercise and how to create SMART goals. And there's a simple test after each one which tracks your progress.

Again, more to tell you about later as we go through this together. (I'll stick to the diet if you keep reading this blog...)

Over further, you'll see the forum. I was intersted to see that this is a pretty active forum, with people signing up every few days. And there are many posts coming in. I see several for this month and a couple just today - as I write this. What's great about the forum is that you can help others and help yourself. Looking through the posts, I see that people are keeping this posting in as a way to hold themselves accountable.

One thing I'd suggest you check out is their Expert Q&A under the Community Section. It's huge.

If that's the only reason for signing up to this free site, it would be enough. All the rest is gravy.

Well, I'd have to give this site an "A" rating. Everything is easy to find and all the questions I can think of right off have been answered (or made easily available.)

I'd suggest you check it out, too - regardless of what diet you are on. Or if you're dieting at all. Might give you a reason to start - and definitely will give you a reason to keep going.

Diet Plan Shakes - Cinch Program Begins

My Diet Plan Starts Well with Shakes

Well, I've gotten going. A friend told me to not overthink it, just get going. Of course, I took the whole kit over to my upline Shaklee sponsor Scott and we did a video (as I blogged yesterday), so  you know I got the quick overview.

I've still yet to dig through the tiny type of their program manual, hoping I can find it online in some version. And I did - it's a Nxtbook, which Shaklee loves (as they can update it easily, so their online catalog is set up in one of these). Now, if you want your own copy, you can select print, and then either save it to your desktop or even get a PDF version.

So I'm working with that PDF version, as the original has very tiny type and my middle-aged eyes would like something easier to see in dim light. I can zoom it up as much as I need it (plus, as a web developer, I long ago learned to "harvest" content from almost any format - which means I can quote parts of this easily as I review it for you.)

Now, as I was saying that video covers a lot of ground. In this blog, I can break it down to smaller bites.

What you really get is just enough to get you through the month. Maybe.

• 2 jugs of Cinch powder @ 15 servings each, 1 box of packets with another 14 = 44 meals.
• 2 boxes of meal-in-a-bar, which are 7 servings each, so another 14 meals.
• You need 2 meals a day for 30 days, or 60 meals - this gives you 58.One day shy.
• Now, the snack bars are 3 boxes, 10 per box, so you are going to use 1 a day for 30 days. (Afternoons.)
• Pomegranate tea is 28 in a box, so you'll run out even at one per day.
• Same with the 3-in-1 Cinch capsules - 84, so thats 28 days again (3 per day). 

Every month isn't February, and many have 31 days, so this is a bit tight. Now I started almost a week late, but even then, I'll be lacking by my 4th month, meaning I'm going to have to order something extra. Probably that sampler pack of snacks and another jug of Cinch.

Just so you know.

Now, I haven't called them up, but I didn't get the tape measure, pedometer, or shaker. Thought that was part of the deal (like the picture above.) Means I need to call them. My sponsor found an extra tape measure, so that's something. The rest I can do without (although I would like to find how many steps/miles I walk daily around the farm.)

Results so far:

Very filling each meal. Very.

As I see it, the deal is that this stuff fills you up while you work on getting your mind around having smaller portions at meals.  But I haven't had any trouble being full - usually it's the reverse. 

Only drawback is that I haven't figured out how to get coffee into this scene. Now I was already noticing that coffee has a bit of heartburn going along with it. Unless you eat some bread of some type to absorb the extra acid.

1st day, I drank my usual big mug of coffee right after my shake, since I didn't "feel" full. Big mistake. Tasted it for hours.

2nd day, I still "felt" like I needed something after the shake, so I waited and drank it when I usually got my second mug, right after checking the cows. Same reaction, only less.

3rd day - figuring it was having the shake in my stomach was causing the problem, I drank the coffee solo, then had the shake when I came in. Result: coffee on an empty stomach. Not ideal, to say the least.

So, tomorrow it's going to be just the shake, and then move the tea up into the morning if I still need something. Otherwise, just stick with water. As I've noticed before, I don't "need" coffee to get going in the morning, it's just that I "like" it. (And both of those phrases can be used to describe an addiction, BTW.)

My sponsor said that the first week, I was going to be kicked around all over the place. And that is happening.

I have found that "real" food tastes much better. Much. And I'm actually hungry when I come for a meal.

It's really pointing out the problem: that we've been over-fed and undernourished. Like feeding low-quality hay to cows in the winter. You can actually starve them to death with a full stomach. Not enough energy to get them going and keep them that way.

Our fast-food mentality (I saw one reference today that our diets are consisting of over 60% highly processed food) - is what really points to the problem we have. 

A diet is the mental game as much as the physical.

And so the shakes and meal bars are a way to break off the habit with a completely different way of eating. When you are buying prepared meals, someone else is thinking through the process. So coming off the diet and back to the real world is more of a bear. By eating totally different food, you are giving both mind and body a chance to adjust. Then when you go back, your stomach is much smaller and you are now looking at being full while eating almost nothing. And after 4 months of this, you essentially are set up to succeed with smaller portions.

Of course, you are also going to need to keep your nutrition up, so this means if you haven't been sold on Shaklee products by then, get ready to be. Figure one shake a day from here on out, plus some quality natural vitamins as well. But the good thing is that they make a lot of shakes in different versions, most of which are cheaper than Cinch. Same with vitamins.

Unless you are raising some very, very healthy food in your garden, figure quality natural-based vitamins are going to be in your future from here on out.

But the great part is - once you're weaned off fast food and Starbucks, you are saving more than enough to pay for what you need to be eating instead. And if you're getting some great lean (grassfed) beef like we raise, then you can have your garden-fresh vegetables and get everything you need.

Well, tomorrow is another day.

My Cinch Inch Transfomation Kit Arrives - Video!

The Cinch Diet Plan Transformation has Begun!

I got the package in a couple of days ago, but waited to get with my sponsor Scott - and videoed it so we could all get the data.

You have to see in this (other than some editing) this is pretty unrehearsed. (Yes, we both talk this fast in real life...)

The point is to bring it to you so you could see what exactly is in the package - since I haven't found anywhere else online where someone brings this up.

As well, Scott has a wealth of data on this - hard to believe he's been active in Shaklee just over a year or so.  But this is exactly what I wanted - to know how to get started right off and not have to read a bunch of stuff to make it make sense.

So here's where we rolled this out - just for you:

 

Just in case you need them, here's the links for the Cinch Inch Loss Transformation Kit, plus their special Cinch Sampler Kit you can get for free - just for signing up.

Studies of Weight Loss Shakes

Weight Loss Shakes and Studies: Shaklee Cinch Inch Loss Program

With Shaklee's 50-year background in vitamin research and quality-checking, it should be no surprise that when it upgraded it's diet program more testing was involved.

According to Wikipedia: "A landmark nutrition study published in the peer-reviewed Nutrition Journal (October 24, 2007) led by a Nobel Laureate in Nutrition compared users of Shaklee vitamins and supplements with users of leading multivitamins and people who took no vitamins or supplements over a 20 year period. The study showed Shaklee users "to have markedly better health as measured by higher blood levels of key nutrients, more optimal levels of key health biomarkers, and lower prevalence of diabetes and elevated blood pressure." As a group the Shaklee users "were 73% less likely to have diabetes and 39% less likely to have elevated blood pressure than non-users. Also, this group was less likely to have suboptimal blood nutrient concentrations, and more likely to have favorable levels of key biomarkers including serum homocysteine, C-reactive protein, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglycerides than either non-users or multivitamin/mineral users."

It's leading weight control program is known as the Cinch Inch Loss Program, has an emphasis on not just weight, but also inches of fat reduced. Shaklee has long been  involved in sports nutrition, having sponsoreda top-ranked professional cycling team, and its supplements used by numerous Olympic and sports athletes. Shaklee has also supplied adventure teams, such as Jacque Cousteau's and also supplied a customized re-hydration beverage to NASA Shuttle astronauts since 1993 - which continues today.

In their studies of athletic performance, a key amino acid (building blocks for protein) was found to help maintain muscle mass of athletes and so maintain their condition - leucine. Researchers had noted that diets for weight loss were remarkably different than diet top athletes used for routinely high performance.

To understand how leucine works, it's important to first take a closer look at this dreaded diet cycle. You know the drill. You go on a diet, and since most diets are nutritionally inadequate, you generally feel hungry and have no energy.

But worse than how you feel, is what's happening to your body. When you significantly reduce your calorie intake, it triggers what's called the "famine response." Your body thinks it's starving and goes looking for energy anywhere it can find it - including your muscle. So not only do you feel bad, but instead of just losing fat, you are losing muscle too.

Now, why is that a problem? Well, muscle is the core of your metabolism. It burns more calories than fat, so the more muscle you have, the higher your resting metabolism and the more calories you burn in a day. Less muscle means a lower metabolism and fewer calories burned.

And things only get worse when you go off your diet and go back to your old eating habits. Because your metabolism has been lowered by this loss of muscle mass, you regain the weight you lost, AND you don't get all that muscle back. The weight that you regain is body fat.

With each successive diet you actually end up shrinking your muscle mass and your calorie-burning capacity. And each time you stop dieting, you usually gain back more fat. So, your metabolism keeps getting lower and your body fat keeps going higher. Does this sound familiar? Remember that muscle equals metabolism, and it's so important to preserve your muscle mass as you reduce your calories to lose weight. This will maximize your body's calorie burning potential.

And that's where this remarkable program from Shaklee comes into the picture. The Cinchﾮ Inch Loss Plan is powered by a proprietary blend of protein - enhanced with leucine - that is designed to help you break the diet cycle.

Leucine is an amino acid that directly stimulates muscle protein synthesis. This means leucine helps you retain muscle mass.

Researchers have been studying leucine's role in muscle metabolism for over 30 years. And body builders have used supplemental leucine to help gain and maintain muscle mass. However, more recently, leucine has been evaluated for its role in weight management because of this function in preserving lean tissue during periods of reduced calorie intake.

The research sounded promising, but to be sure the Shaklee science team ran its own research, a pilot study in the Fall of 2005 to specifically test the Cinchﾮ Inch Loss program. The study participants followed our program for 12 weeks and the results were even better than we expected.

Participants lost over 15 pounds, and 4.1 inches around their waist and 2.6 inches around their hips on average. But the best part? The study subjects showed 100% preservation of fat-free muscle mass.

Now, there's more to the Cinch Inch Loss Plan than just weight loss shakes. The point is to keep you feeling full, with enough energy to do whatever you want while your body adjusts to less mass intake. There are teas, food bars, and a vitamin supplement. But that will need to be the subject of an additional article.

More information about the Cinch Inch-Loss Diet Plan can be found as linked below:

 
Learn about the real science behind the Cinch Diet Plan | Introductory sampler now available.

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• 10 Healthy Fat Loss Diet Reasons

• Healthy Diet Plan FAQs

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• Weight Loss Centers - Advice

• Weight Loss Programs for Men

• Video Success: Tasha Starr

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Weight Loss Supplements and Shakes

Cinch Inch Weight Loss Shakes, Smoothies, and Supplements

As you've been following these articles, we've covered that all diet plans have to deal with reducing calorie input, while increasing calorie burn-rate, meanwhile providing enough nourishment as well as mental re-training and social support. If any of these are missing or skimped, the program fails.

Another aspect came in, based on research into sports nutrition. It was found that a destructive "yo-yo effect" was produced by most diets. When calorie intake is lowered, the body invokes a "famine response", by burning muscle fiber and water first. And then, when the diet is ended, a "feast response" occurs, where extra calories are stored in the fat against the next shortage. The net result is that you lose muscle mass, which is actually needed to keep metabolism high. Low metabolism makes you feel out of sorts and tired. And a frequent reason to quit a diet - because you "feel lousy."

The Cinch Inch Loss Plan is different. It addresses one of the primary reasons why other diets fail. Cinch provides you a plan to lose the right way. Instead of helping you lose weight from fat and muscle, the Cinch Inch Loss Plan is Powered by Leucine^TM to help preserve muscle while you lose weight from fat. Preserving muscle mass also prevents your metabolism from dropping. The Cinch Inch Loss Plan with leucine is scientifically formulated to help you lose weight, lose inches, and break the cycle of perpetual dieting.

The Cinch Inch Loss Plan is designed for real life, so it also addresses the physical and emotional challenges that come along with your weight control efforts. With proprietary formulas, the Cinch products will help you control your hunger, boost your energy, and keep you feeling satisfied. Plus, you'll get healthy personalized menus specific to your body's needs and your individual preferences.  

Benefits

•     Helps you lose pounds and inches

•     Helps you lose weight and inches without feeling hungry

•     Clinically tested leucine formula to help preserve muscle during weight loss

•     Promotes weight loss from fat

•     Provides protein to help control hunger and preserve muscle

•     Offers personalized and flexible meal plan options

•     Provides the support and tools you need to be successful

•     Helps you achieve healthy lifestyle changes

If you would like an alternative to a shake, try the Cinchﾮ Meal-in-a-Bar. You've got two delicious flavors to choose from: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, and a newer addition to the Cinchﾮ product line, Blueberry Almond Crisp. Both bars are packed with 20 grams of protein for staying power and leucine to help you preserve muscle while you lose weight and inches. And, with 6 grams of fiber, they're low glycemic with 260 calories for the Blueberry Almond Crisp and 270 calories for the Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip. As always, the bars have no artificial flavors, colors, or sweeteners. It's a real winner for "cinching" your waist and satisfying your appetite.

You can also take a break in the middle of the afternoon to enjoy one of our amazing Cinchﾮ Snack Bars. If you're a chocolate lover, you won't believe the rich flavor of the Chocolate Decadence Bar. Try the Peanut Butter Crunch and Lemon Cranberry bars, and you'll have a hard time deciding which flavor is your favorite. And, of course, the Cinchﾮ Snack Bars do not contain any artificial flavors, colors, sweeteners and have no trans fats.

But these bars don't just taste great. They're 120 to 130 calories, and yet provide you with a full 10 grams of protein, 3 grams of fiber, and are low on the glycemic index. They're good for you and really keep you satisfied. Plus, each bar is Powered by LeucineTM to help you hold on to muscle.

Also included, Cinchﾮ 3-in-1 BoostTM is a multipurpose supplement containing 23 essential vitamins and minerals and features a proprietary thermogenic blend of botanical ingredients, including EGCG, an ingredient from green tea that helps boost your metabolism. Also included are chromium, vanadium, and banaba leaf extract in the formulation to help you retain normal blood sugar levels. In the context of a healthy, high fiber diet, Cinchﾮ 3-in-1-BoostTM helps keep your energy up and your food cravings down.* Cinchﾮ 3-in-1 BoostTM is designed to work in tandem with the Cinchﾮ Shake. Together they provide you with 100% or more of the Daily Value for 19 essential vitamins and minerals.

The final step in the Cinchﾮ Plan is Cinchﾮ Energy Tea, a unique blend of tea that offers a natural alternative to sugar laden snack foods or high calorie coffee drinks. Cinchﾮ Energy Tea contains a unique proprietary triple tea blend that includes rooibos red tea, white tea and green tea extracts including Matcha green tea powder, a special green tea traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies. Also added is the amino acid taurine, which has been studied for its role in physical and mental performance and for promoting a general sense of well being. Cinchﾮ Energy Tea, available in original Unsweetened and juicy, lightly sweetened Pomegranate flavors, is an good way to chase away those mid-morning or mid-afternoon low energy blahs. You can either drink it hot or over ice for a natural energy lift.

The Cinchﾮ Inch Loss plan provides an optimal balance of carbohydrates, protein and fat to help control hunger, promote satiety and feelings of fullness.

When you incorporate all the delicious Cinchﾮ products, along with the healthy meal plan included as part of the Plan, and add regular physical activity to the mix, you absolutely will lose inches and fat as demonstrated by our preliminary clinical trial.

And this is especially important when you consider losing fat, especially around the waist, reduces that waist to hip ratio, which in turn, reduces the risk of coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Our preliminary study results showed that participants on the Cinchﾮ Plan were able to keep muscle, burn fat, lose inches, and improve their health at the same time.

In our next article, we'll bring you more information on Obesity and the epidemic it's become in just two decades. Of course, that's the real reason we are taking up this subject - to help you make an informed decision about your diet, so you can reach and maintain a healthy weight.

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1 Pilot study showed participants retained 100% of lean muscle mass while losing an average of:

•  16.3 pounds of fat

•  4.1 inches from their waists

•  2.6 inches from their hips

 More than 90% of participants in a study reported having "very good" energy levels

 Officially tested to have a low glycemic index for a more steady rate of digestion and better weight control

*None of the above statements have been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease.

More information about the Cinch Inch-Loss Diet Plan can be found as linked below:

 
Learn about the real science behind the Cinch Diet Plan | Introductory sampler now available.

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Advice - Weight Loss Centers

Weight Loss Centers: Advice on Weight Maintenance

Many people set up their own local weight loss centers in order to help their friends and family with their Cinch Inch-Loss Plan. There are no particular rules regarding your center. You don't even have to own or rent a building. Any space you can meet and talk freely on a regular basis can be used.

The point is that you meet and discuss things regularly. The leader can even sent out text messages on a regular basis to keep everyone inspired during the week. Calls and emails to each other are encouraged.

What follows was originally written for Canadian Cinch Users and has been borrowed for our American friends and associates.

A CINCH® WEIGHT MAINTENANCE PLAN

Once you’ve reached your weight loss goal with the Cinch® Inch-Loss Plan, it’s time to make the transition to weight maintenance and wellness. Here are some easy steps to follow:
 
1. Re-evaluate your daily calorie needs for weight maintenance.  
Use the CinchCoach™ software that came in the Cinch® Starter Kit or the “free analysis” tool available at CinchPlan.com to calculate your new calorie needs for the weight you intend to maintain. 

2. Use the structured meal plans for weight maintenance found in CinchCoach™ or at CinchPlan.com/. 
Choose the meal plan closest to your estimated calorie needs. The maintenance meal plans incorporate one Cinch® Shake (or one Cinch® Meal-in-a-Bar) and one Cinch® Snack Bar daily and other healthy food choices as meals and snacks to meet your calorie needs. You can also continue to use Cinch® Energy Tea Mix as desired. Follow your maintenance meal plan as closely as possible until you have a good sense of the amount of food and proper portion control that will promote a stable weight for you. 
 
3. Continue to monitor your weight weekly.  
If you find you’re still losing weight, boost your caloric intake just a bit – but do so slowly (add 100 calories a day for a week, then re-weigh) – until you find the right calorie level for maintenance. If you find you’ve gained weight, you may have overestimated your calorie needs. In this case, we recommend you either boost your physical activity or cut back your calorie intake slowly (subtract 100 calories a day for a week, then re-weigh) until you find the calorie intake that keeps your weight stable. 
 
4. Switch to other Shaklee supplements. 
Although we highly recommend you continue using Cinch® Shake Mix (or Cinch® Meal-in-a-Bar) as a healthy meal replacement, and Cinch® Snack Bars as desired as a healthy snack, your basic supplementation program can now switch from the use of Cinch® 3-in-1 Boost™ to a combination of other Shaklee wellness products. 
 
To promote lifelong health and vitality, replace 3-in-1 Boost with Shaklee Vitalizer™ (with or without iron) and add Shaklee OmegaGuard® and NutriFeron® into your daily routine. Heart and immune function health are critical to overall wellness. OmegaGuard is your source of omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil and helps reduce the risk of heart disease. The botanical blend in NutriFeron stimulates the body’s natural production of interferon, a key component of your immune system.
 
5. Don’t forget to stay active.  
Engaging in regular, daily physical activity is essential for long-term weight maintenance success, so we highly encourage you to continue with regular exercise as part of your normal daily routine. Continue to wear your Cinch® pedometer and be aware of how many steps a day you need to maintain your weight.

6. Visit CinchClub.com from time to time.  
There are some great articles in the resource section that can be helpful in many aspects of successful weight maintenance. With determination and a positive mental attitude, you’ll maintain the weight you worked so hard to achieve.   We know you CAN do it!

More information about the Cinch Inch-Loss Diet Plan can be found as linked below:

 
Learn about the real science behind the Cinch Diet Plan | Introductory sampler now available.

 

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Weight Loss Shakes Recipes

Healthy Recipes for Weight Loss Shakes

Cinch Inch-Loss Plan Recipes

Have you tried Cinch®? Best breakfast, lunch, and snack on the planet! 

Even if you’re not interested in losing pounds or inches, there are some great reasons to enjoy Cinch any time of the day. Each serving of Cinch Shake Mix soy formula is packed with 24 grams of hunger-fighting protein* and six grams of good-for-you fiber. Cinch shakes have a low glycemic index and contain leucine, which helps retain lean muscle mass. And Cinch has a full line of great-tasting shakes, bars, and teas that are perfect for breakfast, lunch-on-the-go, or just a quick snack. Feeling creative? Add your own fruit, flavors, and spices to Cinch shakes and teas to create customized smoothies.

For an even easier option, crumble a Cinch Snack Bar into your favorite yogurt to make a sensational snack. 

For more inspiration, visit CinchClub.com to see all the ways nutritious Cinch products can be part of your day.

Raspberry Chocolate Dream Shake

Serves 1
Ingredients:

• 2 scoops or 1 packet Cinch® Chocolate Shake Mix

• 1 C fresh or frozen raspberries (unsweetened)

• 1 C nonfat milk or low-fat soy milk

• 4–6 ice cubes

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth. Pour in a tall glass and enjoy!

Nutrition Information: Calories: 284 Protein: 24 g Carbohydrate: 49 g Fat: 3 g Fiber: 13 g

Peanut Butter Yogurt Treat

Serves 1
Ingredients:

• 1 Cinch® Peanut Butter Crunch Snack Bar

• 6 oz. fat-free vanilla yogurt (or 4 oz. frozen yogurt)

• 1/2 tsp. mini, semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:
In a small bowl, break a Cinch Peanut Butter Crunch Snack Bar into small pieces. In a separate, small serving dish, scoop 6 oz. of fat-free vanilla yogurt (or 4 oz. of frozen yogurt) into the center of the dish and sprinkle with peanut butter bar pieces. Garnish with mini chocolate chips.

Nutrition Information: Calories: 283 Protein: 19 g Carbohydrate: 46 g Fat: 3 g Fiber: 3 g

Cinch® Holiday Shake

Serves 1
Ingredients:

• 2 scoops or 1 packet Cinch® Vanilla Shake Mix

• 3/4 C nonfat milk

• 1/4 C light eggnog

• 1/4 tsp. rum-flavored extract

• Dash of nutmeg

• Dash of cinnamon

• 4–6 ice cubes

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in blender and blend until frothy. Sprinkle with additional nutmeg.

Nutrition Information: Calories: 305 Protein: 24 g Carbohydrate: 44 g Fat: 5 g Fiber: 6 g

Pom-Berry Morning Smoothie

Serves 1
Ingredients:

• 2 scoops or 1 packet Cinch® Vanilla Shake Mix

• 1 C nonfat milk or low-fat soy milk

• 1/2 C fresh strawberries

• 1 stick Cinch® Energy Tea Mix Pomegranate Flavor

• 4–6 ice cubes

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in blender and blend until creamy.

Nutrition Information: Calories: 300 Protein: 24 g Carbohydrate: 48 g Fat: 3 g Fiber: 7 g

Piña Colada

Serves 1
Ingredients:

• 2 scoops or 1 packet Cinch® Vanilla Shake Mix

• 1/2 C nonfat milk or low-fat soy milk

• 4 oz. fresh, chopped pineapple

• 1/2 tsp. coconut extract 4–6 ice cubes

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in blender and blend until well mixed and smooth. Garnish with a fresh strawberry and serve immediately.

Nutrition Information: Calories: 309 Protein: 24 g Carbohydrate: 47 g Fat: 3 g Fiber: 7 g

Apple Cinnamon Spice Energy Tea

Serves 1
Ingredients:

• 1 stick Cinch® Energy Tea Mix Unsweetened

• 6 oz. hot water

• 2 tbsp. unsweetened apple juice

• 1 tsp. orange juice Dash of cinnamon

Directions:
Heat water and mix with one stick of Energy Tea Mix Unsweetened. Add apple juice, orange juice, and cinnamon. Stir and sip.

Nutrition Information: Calories: 22 Protein: 0 g Carbohydrate: 4 g Fat: 0 g Fiber: 0 g

Nel’s Peach and Mango Cinch Indulgence

Serves 1
Ingredients:

• 2 scoops or 1 packet Cinch®

• Strawberry Shake Mix

• 1 C frozen peaches (unsweetened)

• 1 C frozen mangos (unsweetened)

• 1 C water

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in blender and blend on low speed until fruit is blended in. Pour in a tall glass and enjoy!
A SPECIAL NOTE FROM NEL: “You may have to periodically stop the blender and mix in the fruit so it’s well blended and in small chunks. It should look like sorbet with small chunks of fruit. It’s my favorite Cinch indulgence!”

Nutrition Information: Calories: 357 Protein: 18 g Carbohydrate: 70 g Fat: 3 g Fiber: 12 g

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup

Serves 1
Ingredients:

• 2 scoops or 1 packet Cinch® Chocolate Shake Mix

• 1 C nonfat milk or low-fat soy milk

• 1 tbsp. natural, creamy peanut butter

•  4–6 ice cubes

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until creamy.

Nutrition Information: Calories: 380 Protein: 28 g Carbohydrate: 42 g Fat: 11 g Fiber: 6 g 

*When prepared as directed.

These recipes ©2009 Shaklee Corporation.

More information about the Cinch Inch-Loss Diet Plan can be found as linked below:

 
Learn about the real science behind the Cinch Diet Plan | Introductory sampler now available.

 

Related Weight-Loss Articles:

• Finding the Best Weight Loss Diet Program

• Comparing Weight Loss Plans

• Weight Loss Shakes

• Cinch Weight Loss Supplements

• 10 Healthy Fat Loss Diet Reasons

• Healthy Diet Plan FAQs

• Healthy Recipes for Weight Loss

• Weight Loss Centers - Advice

• Weight Loss Programs for Men

• Video Success: Tasha Starr

• Cinch Diet Plan Webinar

• Obesity Treatment

• Home-Based Business?!?

• Still Got Questions?

• Need Help to Get Started?