Love Your Body!

I recently saw a TED talk where the obese speaker was talking about she loved her body. I don't know her health issues or if she even has any. The danger of blindly "loving" our bodies is that people infer that that means we don't have to change. A smoker should love her body enough to stop smoking. An overeater should love her body to stop overeating. A lazy glutton should love her body enough to start exercising and eating more than just frozen pizzas.

Today my scale reading was up. 147 pounds. Bummer. Except that my inches were WAY down! That means muscle growth!

If you want to join me doing PiYo, or if you already are, there's a CASTING CALL that you could win a chance to share your story on a Beachbody commercial! Follow that link to a facebook page to share your "before/after" shots!

One of my gal friends shared a really neat idea for motivation for working out: I tell my clients to put $1 or $2 in a jar each time they complete a workout...at the end of the month, use it as a reward: new workout, shoes, outfit, massage, manicure, etc. Sounds good to me! What should I do with all that money? Maybe I'll start working out twice a day!

My Friend's Story

This is my "upline coach's" story. Isn't her family beautiful?! She's an amazing woman.

Jessica Vandeberghe

My Story and How I became a Team Beachbody Coach! 

On April 28, 2011 my life took a turn....For The Better! I had two weeks prior to that gone to a Turbo Kick Instructor Training Course to become Certified in Teaching Turbo. The Instructor who I went up to and was talking to was drinking shakeology and I had never heard of it. So of course the huge skeptic in me and not wanting to be sold on anything, wrote that name down and went home and researched it like crazy to see what Shakeology was. 

I found it too good to be true. I decided I wanted to try it out for 30 days and see how I liked it. I had never ever heard of Beachbody before and vaguely had heard of P90x but knew nothing about it. The website I was researching Shakeology on led me to Beachbody.com where I thought I was just ordering a 30 Day Supply to try it out, as it was a money back guarantee. 

Little did I know somehow I accidentally signed up as a Coach! Yep, this is my story. I was a Personal Trainer and Nutritionist, teaching classes 5 times a week. My husband and I had a 4 year old daughter and I was taking her with me while training clients in home, at the gym and teaching classes. I was working 30-40 hours a week and running around all day long to get to where I needed to go. 

The day after I signed up for Shakeology, I was contacted by my incredible free coach, Lisa Hansen. She Congratulated me on signing as a coach and to my surprise had no idea what she was talking about....LOL. "I only signed up to try shakeology for 30 days!"......Well, this is where she explained how I really signed up and also gave me insight of the Beachbody Coaching Opportunity and her story. I realized very quickly that I was already helping others, I loved fitness, I would love to be surrounded with like minded people and Why Not? 

So I jumped in with both feet, super excited and in less then 3 years we earn about $25,000/month, have retired my husband and have changed many, many lives and travel often with my family! I had no experience like I said above with any of the Beachbody programs or Shakeology but was so excited to get my Shakeology and try it that I was sharing about how wonderful it was and how it had helped other people and how I was excited to reap those same benefits. 

Then once I received my Shake in the mail I started using it and noticing great benefits and sharing my experience with others. I felt amazing!!


Beachbody has not only changed me as an individual for the better but Shakeology has improved my Digestion, IBS, Curbed my crazy sugar cravings and has really helped me with a more balanced and controlled diet. I have found that Beachbody Coaching is the career I never knew I always wanted to have! It has truly been a blessing for not only my personal journey through health and fitness but through personal development, accountability and support and financially! 

You are no different then I am or anyone else on here. The proof is in the products. You will build up your own product experience as you go and share that along the way and that is exactly what I have done and it has changed our lives a full 360 degrees for the better and I couldn't imagine life any other way~

We were never able to travel as my husband didn't get paid time off and being I was self employed, if I didn't work, I didn't get paid and we could never afford to save enough money for both our lost wages, vacation and airfare. Beachbody has provided and gave us that opportunity 6 months in to coaching I won our first vacation to Atlantis, Bahamas!!! It was INCREDIBLE and we have gone each year on a vacation with them since and you can too!! First year was Atlantis, second year was DisneyWorld and this past trip was a Western Caribbean Cruise and then on top of that my in laws moved to Hawaii for one year and last year we went and stayed with them twice for each two weeks!! Make your Dreams, Your Reality~

Before/After Pics...Not the Right Way OR "The Beginning of a New Chapter"

Let's watch a cycle:

I don't have a lot of photos of myself because no one else I know takes photos. And my computer crashed awhile back so I don't have any good full length "before" photos. I'll see if a friend has one.

It wasn't great, not horrible though. 130lbs after 2 kids:

I participated in a Beachbody's coach's "get well" competition:

109 lbs and 15% BF!


After that, this happened:

(I was actually in the middle of P90X when suddenly I was unusually sleepy and then suddenly nauseated which made me think to take a pg test! lol!) That photo was almost exactly 7 months ago. 173 lbs

This is me today. My shorts can't even go on and I'm so embarrassed. Yes, that's me. I'm the heaviest I've ever been. 154lbs. I was recently diagnosed with depression. There's so much stress in my life right now: I have a husband who works 75 hours a week [my husband wishes for me to point out that he only works 65 hours a week. I was including drive time - the time he is not at home] and can't help out at home, three kids, the oldest isn't speaking, the second is going through "terrible twos", and the youngest is teething, I work part-time doing data entry from home, I home-school my two pre-kindergarteners, and somehow I'm expected to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner for everyone, clean the entire house, do the laundry, put the kids to bed, and do it all without losing my sanity.

It can be done. And you can do it too.

Beachbody is important to me. Health and fitness is a passion of mine and I WILL make the time to succeed.

You're welcome to come alongside and watch me discipline myself into my old clothes. I'm not accepting excuses, and you shouldn't either. Shakeology will help. It'll free up my time while ensuring that I get all the necessary vitamins and nutrients I need.

If you're interested in joining me with a Challenge Pack, I have a Facebook group just for you! Contact me and I'll get you started!


So, why have this picture at all? It's MY motivation!

...And it's the TARDIS! What's better than a Beachbody coach that also speaks Whovian?!

FINALLY! It Came!

What seems like a rather long time ago, but in actuality was June 30, I ordered my first CHALLENGE PACK from Beachbody. It FINALLY came in today's mail. I want to pop in that first DVD right now!

http://www.beachbodycoach.com/esuite/home/laurenmulford

To order your own challenge pack, just click on this pic and follow the "Challenge Pack" link. Select which one you want and I'll start working with you! So easy! And with the Challenge Pack, you get the DVD, an ENTIRE month of Shakeology, and a free gift. My free gift, which I totally wasn't even expecting, was this nifty recipe book. Nice! Thanks, Beachbody!

You can see on the far right the double red circle indicates where you can see the entire selection of Challenge Packs, or if you just want the same Pack I got, select the bottom right link (indicated by the big red arrow) for the PiYo Challenge Pack!

I will support you through any program you select. And you can watch me as I continue on my own journey too!

Here's the box that came

 and the contents

and the special gift

OKAY! Be sure to join my Clean Eating Challenge Group on facebook. Stay tuned later this week for my story and my before pic!