Most of us have at one time or another, tried an exercise program, a fad diet or even a combination of both because of different reasons. Whatever your body’s needs are, The ViSalus Sciences Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge is geared towards helping you achieve your goals. People have different needs for their bodies. Some people are clinically obese and need to lose weight. Some just want to lose a few pounds. Some want to get fit and toned and there are those who just want to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Unlike other programs, which turn out to be fad diets, Body by Vi “is based on nutrition that helps you burn fat, keep lean muscle, boosts your metabolism and helps control hunger.” Formulas and ingredients are patented and will help achieve an individual’s goals on his/her terms with guaranteed results. The program includes fitness tips and plans, nutrition guides and tracking tools that you can download from the website.

There are three kits in the Body by Vi Program:

1. Body by Vi “Balance” Kit - helps you begin your journey by providing your body with good nutritional balance
2. “Shape” Kit - will help accelerate your results in achieving a slim and trim body
3. “Transform” Kit - the ultimate power of the ViSalus product line which will help you see and feel maximum results
4. Program Guide - contains information, recipes and a journal to help you track your  success.

An online “Health Membership” is included in the kit which will give you access to different online tools you can use to help you succeed. Upon joining the challenge, you can log into the online community where you will meet other people who have participated and who are presently participating in the challenge. They will be your support group and they will help you achieve your goals.

When starting the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge, follow these steps:

1. At the beginning of the program, take your body measurements and your “Before” Photo, upload these into your Health Membership Profile and show your results as you move towards your goal.
2. Using the ViSalus recipe database, you can enter your dietary needs and preference into the database and you get a customized meal plan. Your shopping list is then sent directly to your email or phone.
3. You can also customize your fitness plan. You can find a plan that will match what goes on in your life (i.e. your schedule, your goals). You can choose an exercise plan from available videos.
4. Track your progress. Always update your Vi-Net profile, so you can share your progress with the rest of the ViSalus community. As you go through the challenge, celebrate every little success that you have.

There are available video testimonials of different people from different walks of life who have succeeded in improving their lives through the Body by Vi Challenge. Their “Before” and “After” photos are very powerful visual aids that show the average person that anybody can do this challenge.

There are so many available health programs out there. Many have made promises from helping a person lose weight, helping others look beautiful, helping people look feel good, etc. Many are effective, some are not. But what makes Body by Vi stand out?

With Visalus Body by Vi:

• Body by Vi offers a comprehensive health program that has a simple nutritional program with menu plans and recipes that you can customize to your body’s needs.
• You get to keep track of what you eat and get to understand how your diet choices will accelerate your progress. You can also customize your exercise program according to your needs and your goals.
• You can then choose a workout program from the exercise and video programs available at ViSalus. These are simple exercises that can be done at home or at the office. Some exercise can be done outdoors or at the gym.

Perhaps, most important of all, would be the ViSalus Community. When you join the Body by Vi Challenge:

• You will join an online “Health Membership” and you will have instant access to online tools to aid you in your success.
• You will also get to meet other people who are also participating in the Challenge and people who have already finished the Challenge. The Community is always there whether you just want answers to some questions or you need to have some encouragement as you go through the program.
• You have access to many pointers from experts and regular people like you who just want to have a better life.

So, if you want to have a better, healthier life without the hassles of doing a health program that does not suit your needs, or involves fad diets and watching endless exercise videos, just make things simple.

To many people, dieting connotes restrictions and limitations in the foods that they take. But diet, overall, simply refers to the types of foods you select on a day-to-day basis. Some would jokingly say that they are on a chocolate diet or a diet of all things deep-fried.

Your diet corresponds to the outcome you see in your body. It is unavoidably directly related to your weight. But first, you need to know how much you should weigh; not everybody needs to be 100 pounds. We all have different ideal weights. The weight range that we need to be in tells us that falling below that range makes you underweight and being beyond it makes you overweight. Either case is not good.

There are ideal weight charts that only factor in one’s height. But the more helpful ones are those, which factor in one’s body type as well. There is a different weight range for a person who has a small frame, one who has a medium frame and one with a large frame even if they are all the same height. It’s good to consider your body frame in order to be realistic when it comes to setting weight goals.  To calculate your BMI and see if you are in the healthy range, click here.

What Is Your Diet / Eating Personality?

Dieting greatly affects weight but it should not mean starving oneself to achieve the ideal weight. That simply does not work or it could but it’s detrimental to your health. To achieve one’s desired weight, provided it’s realistic, there should be a good balance between what foods to eat and the right amount of these foods in one’s diet. Everything we consume contains a number of calories, which give us the energy to do our activities.

• Diet goes hand in hand with the activities we choose to do because to maintain our weight, we need to be eating only the number of calories we can burn.
• To lose weight, one should be eating fewer calories than he can burn. Consequently, if one needs to gain weight, he should be eating more than what he can burn. Losing weight properly and at a healthy pace happens when the person is aware of how many calories he gets from what he eats.
• Counting calories may sound tedious but instead of treating them as numbers, every person who aims for good health should look at calories in food as a way to respond to what the body needs in terms of nourishment.

Nourishment should come from a nutritionally balanced diet. If you target to eat only a certain number of calories per day, you should eat the right foods in right amounts that will add up to that desired number rather than eating only one or two food groups in very large quantities in order to achieve that desired number of calories in food. Remember that your body responds to what you put into it and what you don’t. Review the 7 Rules to Healthy Eating.

Weight is, indeed, a very important thing. It’s not just about aesthetics and it’s definitely not about believing than thin is beautiful. Weight is one of the measurements of our health. Being overweight can lead to a number of chronic diseases; being underweight shows that the body is lacking in essential nutrients and amount of food.

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