My Slim-Fast Needs A Makeover.

I've been logging my weight, meals, snacks, runs and workouts everyday to keep myself accountable (which I will publish on Monday) and I have to admit......I am a SLACKER when it comes to any sort of workout besides running.  And in reality, I can also be a slacker at running if I don't keep doing it on the regular.

This is nothing new, which is why that sentence didn't say "I have discovered that I am a slacker......"  I've known for many years that I have a really hard time sticking to any sort of workout regimen for the long haul, and it was only 3 years ago that I discovered that running was an exception to that rule.

So it's no surprise that I've only done my daily core workout ONCE this week, and that was last Monday.  It's not hard, it doesn't take a lot of time, and I can do it after the kids go to bed or during their naps (I tried it once while they were awake but I became a jungle gym instead).  But for WHATEVER REASON, I have slacked.  So this coming week, I'm going to really put my foot down and do all 5 days!

I mean, seriously.....it is not that difficult to make an effort to do this every day! (I'm preaching to myself here.)

The Slim-Fast shakes are becoming hard to swallow.  They're a good-tasting shake and I have nothing personal against them, but I've been drinking them twice a day almost every day for two weeks straight and so they're starting to become unappealing.  Which means I need to change things up for a bit.  This morning I broke out my single-serve blender (which hasn't seen daylight in years, but I was glad I still had) and blended my shake with some sliced banana and strawberries.  On the plus side, it revamped my Slim-Fast into a whole new shake.  On the negative side, both of my kids wanted my breakfast!  So I had to blend them their own non-Slim-Fast shakes, which they sucked down.

I added dying blueberries to the kids' shakes, too.

One for Delano and one for Lucy.  Mama already drank hers.

I googled Shakeology (my cousin has been drinking Shakeology daily and doing the Insanity Max 30 DVDs), but the shake is super expensive compared to Slim-Fast (~$4.00 a shake compared to ~$0.50 a shake) and a popular weight loss review website doesn't rate it nearly as high as this other shake I had never heard of known as 18Shake.  The 18Shake is about half the price of Shakeology, but still 3x the price of Slim-Fast.  It does sound like a way better choice than Slim-Fast for various ingredients reasons (I checked out the website's review of Slim-Fast - it wasn't great, which I totally get), but I just can't imagine tossing out that kind of money for meal replacement shakes, especially when I can't buy them in small quantities to try out.  It's either buy at least a month's worth or don't buy any at all.  Plus, I figure I'll get tired of them in a couple of weeks just the same as now!

I could do just regular healthy fruit/veggie shakes without adding any meal replacement shake powder, but the purpose of the powder is to provide certain nutrition aspects of a meal (calories, fat, carbs, protein, vitamins, etc) as well as serve as an appetite suppressant, since it's supposed to be basically a "meal in a glass".

And as I've said before, this whole meal replacement shake plan that I'm on is definitely a temporary thing and a bit of a "quick fix".  I'm aware that they're actually NOT all that healthy for me, no matter what they claim.  I'm also aware that once I stop replacing my meals with shakes, I'm going to have to really focus on meal nutrition and portion control to keep the weight from piling back on.  But for now, shakes are my weapon of choice for battling this baby weight!