Warning: Please read on before you get started with Herbalife Malaysia products for your health and weight management.

Let me explain why…

Let me introduce myself. I’m Stella Chua and I am one of the Herbalife Malaysia Independent Distributor that is helping people in managing health and losing weight using Herbalife products since 2006.

It’s long enough for me to understand the market very well and I do not want you to become one of the victim of “orphans” customers. What do I mean by that?

A lot of people get started with the products with the “hope” of getting results. But most of them failed in getting results simply because they do not have a personal coach. They do not know the correct ways to use the products based on their personal needs and also personalized their menu to reach their goals.

My advice, please don’t be one of coming to be “orphans“ customers of Herbalife Malaysia. Do not assume that buying at distributor price for the products without any guidance will get results. To be successful in weight loss, you need a mentor. Get a personal coach to help you in reaching your goals and please do not buy products if you do not have a Herbalife Distributor as your personal coach.

If you are serious looking for a PERSONAL COACH to get you started right with the products in helping you to achieve the kind of results that you desire off, I have a gift for you. This FREE eBook will show you…

• How To Lose 1-3kgs Per Month While Still Enjoy Ice Cream!
• How To Shape Up Without Leaving Stretch Marks And Flabby Skins On Your Body
• How To Maintain The Weight You Have Lost And Keep It Off Forever.
• Free Weight Analysis and Consultation

P.S: Please do not request for the eBook if you are already a registered Herbalife Distributor or someone already purchased the products from some Herbalife Distributor through your friends. This ebook WILL NOT teach you how to use the products. If you are seeking for ways to use the products in achieving the results that you wanted, seek for their help from the person you are buying the products from. They have the responsibility to guide and to teach you how to use the products.

You cannot be successful in your weight loss journey without your effort and discipline. And because you can’t control the new restaurant coming up, new food in the market, people who is trying to sabotage your dieting efforts, but you can control what you do.

Losing weight journey is tough, BUT it will be TOUGHER if you do not make your weight loss journey a success.

“…please help me lose weight asap…coz i have to lost 25 kg within 3 month… “

This is a very common statement that I always received from my potential students. I do understand that you have a certain events or functions that you must attend and most important you will look great in the new dress or new outfit. When there is a special events or functions, most people will take this “reason” as the biggest push/motivation to help lose weight.

Why not take a silent moment and have do some thinking…and you must ask yourself these few questions:

Help Me Lose Weight Questions To Ask

• Is this weight loss program that I am going to start is a one-off thingy?
• If I can achieve such a results in just 3 months time, will it be healthy for me?
• What is my long term plan in maintaining and keeping the kgs that I have lost during the weight loss program?
• Am I making decisions based on emotions, looking for short cut or being healthy for long term is my priority?

Let’s face the REALITY…

To be able to lose 25kg within 3 months is not healthy. Healthy average weight loss in a month is 1-3kg. And for realistic weight loss results for 3 months will be around 3-9kg. If you can gradually lose the excess weight from the body in a healthy way, you can be in control of your own weight and health.

If I am ignorant…there is no one can help me lose weight…

An example of  unhealthy diet plan that most people don’t realize

I am going to eating so little, not gong to eat rice for the coming 3 months. Yes, it will help me lose weight! Okies, within the 3 months, you could have achieved that, eating little and not eating rice. But then, WHAT’S NEXT? Are you going to continue to eat less and not going to eat rice just to maintain your weight? Chances most people will forget about that and go back to their usual eating lifestyle, eat what they love. Then, this will affect in the Yo Yo Effects because it is all about a sudden cut of food and calories for the body and a sudden increase of food and calories. It is so simple to understand about Yo Yo Effects.

There is no SHORTCUT

You can be in control of your weight loss results for a long term if you learn to eat right, exercise, have sufficient sleep, watch what you are eating and always think before putting the food into your body.

Key To Help Me Lose Weight: Eating right is the most difficult thing to do in our daily busy life. But lucky thing, there is really a type of food that is called Healthy Fast Food that is able to help busy people with little time to lose weight, manage their weight and health. Eat right and let the body do the job that it should be doing.

Healthy Fast Food – What is that?

Healthy fast food is what your body needs. What body needs is Balance Nutrition.

Ideal type of healthy fast food fullfil these criteria:

• It is with moderate calories
• Contains good sources of protein from plant
• Contains sufficient fiber, essential vitamin and minerals
• Preparing time is as little as a minute

What a healthy fast food do to us?

• Managing our weight
• Reaching our fitness goals
• Look best for caring my skin and body
• Addressing specific nutritional needs that we have.

All these can only start with bringing nutrition into the balance. Health is often affected by our body being deprived with the essential nutrients to function properly. In short, lack of balance nutrition. The surprising truth is most people aren’t getting the balance nutrition that they need.

How Obesity And Overweight Issue Happens

A lack of balance nutrition and poor eating can have many health consequences. Some more visible than other. One of the visible consequences is Obesity. Around the world, 1 Billion adults are overweight and 300 Millions are consider as obese; according to WHO. This also leads to common chronic diseases such as coronary heart  disease and type 2 diabetes.

With busy, stressful lifestyle with little time to make healthy food drink choices, and add on with fast food and snacks readily and easily available, your body often missed out necessary vitamin, minerals, fiber and protein. There are many reasons for weight gain issues such as large portion of meals, snacking, sandwiches, unhealthy ready meals are often the culprit. Also lack of time, knowledge and desire. Missing lunch and compensate with large dinner. This means many of us still not getting healthy balance nutrition throughout the day.

Danger of Deficiency of Balance Nutrition

Deficiency in balance nutrients intake is just bad. Even if you believe that you are eating well, you still can be  missing out from the vital nutrients. Take for example, vegetarians needs to be sure to get Vitamin B12 which is vital for the nervous system. Another example is fruits and vegetables. Everyone should be getting at least 5 servings a day.

In short 9 out of 10 times, we simply don’t realize the impact of what we are consuming is. Even it is not showing on your body yet. Lacking of balance nutrition can add to health challenges later on.

The Importance of Healthy Fast Food That Includes Balance Nutrition

Balance nutrition is a must if you want to lead an active and healthy lifestyle.

P.S: Healthy Fast Food that contains balance nutrition plays the biggest role in helping me to lose weight successfully. You can read more in detailed about How Healthy Fast Food Help Me To Lose Weight.

Knowing Your Own BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate)

It is really important to know your own BMR. Knowing your own Basal Metabolic Rate can help you in managing your own weight as well as calories intake for your body.

Let me explain in a simple way to understand about Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)

BMR is the battery indicator for our body. Battery = Energy needed.

Remote control operates using battery. If the battery is weak, then, we won’t be able to perform the functions on the remote control itself.

Same goes to our body too. Each one of us has our own battery indicator, the BMR which is the amount of calories needed by our body to let us have the energy to perform daily activities like walking, doing house chores, working, driving and etc based on the individual person’s age, muscle mass, physic rating, body fat %, visceral fat and body water %.

You must be thinking, so where can I know about my BMR, Basal Metabolic Rate?

Is easy. If you go to gym or any weight loss coach, they will have a weighing scale that measures your body that is able to tell you your BMR.

What is the use of BMR?

It is very useful and important. Because when you know the amount of calories needed by your body, let’s say is 1250 calories. And everyday, your total calories intake is 1800. That means it is excess by 550 calories. What happen to those excess 550 calories inside your body? Assuming you do not work out. And the excess 550 calories is not burnt. It will then stored inside the body and slowly weight gain will happen. But, if you do work out and manage to burn off the 550 calories, then you will be maintaining your body weight.

And if you take lesser than 1250, assuming only1000 calories every day. Reduce by 250 calories every single day. If this can be done consistently for a period of time, that is when weight loss will happen.

Don’t Make These Mistake!

Mistake #1 :Very Low Calorie Intake Diet

Let’s say you know that your BMR is 1150 calories. And you trying to be smart, by starving and skipping meals. And your calories intake is only 150. Guess what will happen? You will be suffering and torturing yourself. Can drastic weight loss happen? Of course it will happen, but it won’t give you long term results. Simply is because how long can you sustain by having daily diet food intake that is just 150 calories everyday? Believe me, you will collapsed and worst ended up in the hospital.

And worst, once you started to eat back normally, that is when Yo Yo effects will happen to you!

Mistake #2: Low Calorie Intake + Exercise Like Crazy

Same goes to the people who thinks that they eat so little and exercise like crazy. It seems healthy way of dieting, in actual fact is NOT! When your body is not getting the sufficient energy required, it will then be in sleeping mode. Just like the remote control, no matter how hard you press the button, when there is battery is weak it will not work at all.

If you are on any weight management program, make sure you know your own BMR – Basal Metabolic Rate.

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Guaranteed Weight Loss – I also wants it!

My potential customers shoot me questions like..

Stella, can you guarantee my weight loss results?

Stella, can you convince me that I can lose x kg in x months?

What would my answer be for them? I clearly knows why when a prospects, the potential customers asked me such question.

Is not because they are not believing the methods that I recommend to them, is not because they do not believe in me. The reason why they ask such a question is because deep inside them has a little fear. The fear that they might not be able to lose the weight successfully. They asked such a questions is because they want a confirmation from my side so that they will feel good about themselves when they are not getting results from the weight loss program. Simply is because I guaranteed, and they can’t achieve it..Then, it falls to be my fault.

As we know, NOTHING is GUARANTEED. Like in business, what kind of business that guaranteed will make money? What kind of investment that will guarantee you no risk and earning profit? Same goes for losing weight.

Identify the problem of weight gain

There are so many factors that causes of weight gain. If the individual clearly understand where is the problem that causes them to gain weight, fix that problem first. Only by fixing small little things then able to achieve the final results.

What are the common problem for weight gain?

1. Not drinking sufficient water
2. Snack on junkies
3. Having late dinner or supper
4. Drinking habits (beer & liquor)
5. Not taking the right breakfast
6. Mentality

Fix it!

If you have any of the bad habits, change it. Slowly change it and you will be able to get the results that you want. If you don’t start doing something small to fix it, you will never be able to achieve the end results. Do the invisible to get the visible.

Who can give me Guaranteed Weight Loss Results?

The only person can give you Guaranteed Weight Loss Results is you YOURSELF. You decide what you want. Your health, your body weight, your body shape. You will decide and determine what you want to get at the end of the day.

Eating Less To Lose Weight: Correct or Wrong?

When I tried to promote to people about healthy way to lose weight, one of my subscriber replied to my email and she said..

i have lose 8 kg already just less eat as usual

My replied to her, how long can you afford eating less to lose weight? Can you afford to eat lesser and lesser for the rest of your lives just to maintain and keeping the weight off? Does she knows that initial stage of eating less to lose weight will work so effectively and that is the reason why she is losing 8kgs just by eating less to lose weight. Eating less to lose weight without eating a healthy diet, is not the right way to lose weight. This is because when a person started eating less and not eating a healthy diet, let’s say insufficient of protein intake. What the body will do is, it will steal protein from your muscles and organs. Then, when you are losing your weight, it could be losing the muscles mass.

Eating less to lose weight will work because it is a sudden cut on the amount of calories intake to the body. When a person takes lesser calories than the body needs, automatically the person will experience weight loss. Cutting down calories is the right way to lose weight, but cutting down the nutrients needed by the body is a huge No No.

What is your body telling you when your body is not getting the nutrients needed?

When your body is lack of the nutrition needed, you will notice few things like:

• Dry skin
• Easily crack nails
• Coarse hair
• Easily feeling tired
• Looking pale
• No energy

When your body is telling you something, this shows your body is telling you about your weight loss plan.

If your body starts  telling you something that means you are under go an unhealthy way of weight loss. Your body is lacking the nutrients needed. A lot of people are neglecting this and take it easy.  What is the point that you can lose weight, then you don’t look attractive? Out of the sudden you can lose weight, but you look so unattractive because you are easily feeling tired, looking pale as if a sick person and lack of energy? Is this called the success in losing weight? Do you dare to teach people to lose weight like you do even you have lost a lot of weight using your own weight loss plan which is showing that your body is lacking of the balance nutrition needed by your body?

Please: Don’t be the blind person who leads another blind person…

Eating Less To Lose Weight Is Correct, But You Need To Eat Right!

To eat right is actually quite simple. Know the reasons of your weight gain problem. Then, identify what and how you can do to lose the weight. Yes, eating less to lose weight.. but you need to eat the right food. The right food for the body. Many people does not know what is the right food for the body. Right food is the food that your body cells needs. Our body are made of trillions of cells. Cells need food too. Cells need food like vitamin, minerals and sufficient water. Feed them with these right food and you are on a way to Healthy Weight Loss Plan.

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Always keep this in mind, always try to obtain sugars naturally which should be primarily from fresh, whole fruit.

Here are 7 Ways To Reduce Sugar Intake

1. Fruit juices, even if they are 100 percent fruit juice, are all-natural sugar but they are very high in calories–it’s best to avoid beverages with high calories, including fruit juices, sodas, lemonade and other sweetened beverages. Learn to enjoy your iced tea for its natural flavor, rather than for the flavor of the sugar that you pour into the glass.
2. Rather than adding syrup or honey to foods like waffles or pancakes, try topping them with sliced fresh fruit and a dollop of vanilla yogurt.
3. Look for whole-grain cereals without added sugars, and top with sliced bananas, berries or other fruit that appeal to you. This applies to both cold cereals and hot. Oatmeal is delicious with some mashed banana stirred in for sweetness.
4. Keep healthy snacks around, like whole fruits, cut vegetables, whole-grain crackers, low-fat yogurt and low-fat cheese, so you won’t be tempted to eat sweets instead.
5. Help your kids develop healthier habits–if they are old enough to read labels, give them a list of all the names for sugar and ask them to become “sugar detectives.” They will enjoy finding the hidden sources of sugar in foods, and it will help to educate them as to how much sugar is added– sometimes where you least expect it.
6. Instead of baked goods for desserts, try fresh fruit with a bit of chocolate syrup. One great trick is to take ripe bananas, peel and place them on a foil-lined tray in the freezer. Frozen bananas taste just like ice cream and will satisfy your sweet tooth for significantly fewer calories.
7. If you add sugar to cereals, beverages and fruits routinely, try to gradually reduce the amount you use. You may not really know the true flavor of these foods because you have “masked” the flavour with sugar. Fresh fruits in season should be deliciously sweet–no added sugar necessary

We are easily surrounded by sugars. To avoid sugar, instead look for protein. Since we live in a carbohydrate-rich society, it’s not always easy to find low-calorie, healthful foods, which are generally expensive and have a short shelf life. This is all too obvious when travelling. Whether it’s the airport or a gas station, high-protein foods that are low in sugar are difficult to find. The next time you walk into a gas station, a food stop, or a snack bar in the airport, look around. You will see lots of chips, candies, crackers, doughnuts, muffins and plenty of soda. Generally, the only protein is beef jerky, almonds and milk. Now protein bars are coming into fashion, but they are not widespread.

The problem with snacking on these sugary foods is the empty calories. You want to make your calories count, and sugar doesn’t help much. Pre-packaged foods that are high in sugar generally do not have a high-nutrient density.

Protein is the nutrient of interest for most of the current diets. In the 1980s, the high carbohydrate diet was king, but this diet has proven deleterious to most people. We do need carbohydrates–remember, it’s like the fuel you add in the gas tank of your car–but unless you’re training for a marathon, you do not need that much. Generally, about 40 percent to 50 percent of your daily calories can come from carbohydrates, which means that on a 2,000-calorie-per-day diet, that is approximately 800 to 1,000 calories, which translates into the typical Western breakfast of a large latte and a muffin. Under these conditions, you’re usually tapped out by 10 a.m. with all the carbs you need for the day. Now imagine adding some pizza, a hamburger and a soda, a mid-afternoon coffee, a bag of chips and then maybe some bread with dinner.

It’s not hard to quickly accumulate 4,000 calories. Cutting carbohydrates out of the diet is the basis of most, if not all, of the popular diet programs today.

The idea of a low-fat diet has changed, and now a diet rich in healthy fats–such as monounsaturated fats from nuts, avocados and olive oil, and polyunsaturated fats from fish oil and flaxseed–is popular. The percentage for dietary protein can vary widely, but most experts target around 30 percent.

Here are a listing some of the Healthy Snacks That Are Under 100 Calories that can help you in choosing your snacks. Remember, reduce sugar when it is not necessary like drinking sodas, fruit juices that are pre-package, sweets…

But what do you think? Do you have other ways to reduce sugar intake? You can let me know by leaving a comment below.

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What is sugar exactly?

Table sugar is just one form of sugar that we get in the diet. Sugars are carbohydrates, and they exist naturally in different forms and in all kinds of foods. The granulated sugar that you might sprinkle on your cereal is called sucrose, which is produced primarily by extracting the sugar from sugar beets or sugar cane, although it is present in lots of other plant foods, too. The primary sugar in fruits is called fructose, and there is a naturally occurring sugar in milk called lactose. When you consume a fruit, a vegetable or a dairy product, you can’t avoid consuming the natural sugar that these foods contain.

All sugars ultimately end up in the bloodstream in the form of glucose, which is the form of sugar that our body prefers to use for energy. While sugars in foods end up as glucose in the bloodstream, so do the end-products of the digestion of all carbohydrate-rich foods like fruits, vegetables and starchy foods.

We eat a lot of sugar–even in foods that don’t taste sweet. Aside from the obvious items like sodas, fruit drinks, sweetened cereals and desserts, sugar–in one form or another–finds its way into condiments, soups, breads and even savoury snacks like chips. The primary health hazard of eating too much sugar is tooth decay. The bacteria that live in your mouth can convert sugars into an acid that can destroy tooth enamel. Foods that are sweet and sticky, like fruit snacks or gummy candies are particularly a problem since the sugar stays in contact with the teeth.

How Sugar Impact Your Weight Loss Progress?

Does sugar make you fat? Certainly sugar adds extra calories to the diet, and extra calories mean extra weight. Most studies have focused on soda consumption, and several have concluded that as soda consumption increases, so does the risk of obesity. Part of the problem with beverages is that they don’t fill us up–so we can consume a lot of calories in these sweet liquids and still consume regular solid foods, too, before we feel full.

The other issue is that many foods that are high in added sugars are also high in fats and calories–cakes, pastries, ice cream and candy bars are just some of the sweet foods we eat that are loaded down with fat and calories. Food manufacturers are more than happy to accommodate America’s sweet tooth–sugar is inexpensive and adds a lot of taste to foods. To know how much sugar you are eating, it’s important to understand that many forms of sugar are added to foods. By reading the label, you may not realize how much sugar a food really contains.

Here are some other forms of sugar that you might see on a label: sucrose, fructose, glucose, dextrose, lactose, maltose, invert sugar, raw sugar, turbinado sugar, brown sugar, cane sugar, brown rice syrup, fruit juice concentrate, confectioner’s sugar, maltodextrin, corn syrup, highfructose corn syrup, honey, maple syrup and molasses.

One popular breakfast cereal marketed to children has the following ingredients: corn, sugar, corn syrup, modified cornstarch, canola oil and high-fructose corn syrup, followed by some vitamins, minerals, and artificial colors and flavors. This cereal isn’t much more than a bowl of sugar, oil and starch.

When you look at a food label, the sugar content is listed–in grams per serving–just under the total carbohydrate listing. But this includes all sugars in the food including natural sugars, so it can be deceptive. For instance, a bran cereal with no added sugar but with raisins in it might look as high in sugar as a sugary kid’s cereal. But there is a big difference in the nutritional value of the two foods, since one might contain only the natural sugar from the fruit, while the kid’s cereal will contain all added sugar.

It is very important to know how much sugars that we are actually taking into our body. No doubt that cereals could look healthy, but when looking at label it contains quite high sugar content. If you wanted to manage your weight, the best way is to take lesser drinks like soda water or take lesser sweet food like donuts with toppings and also lesser junkies like chips. The lesser artificial sugars intake you give you long term results in managing your weight and that is how sugar impact on your weight loss progress.

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