Shaklee 180 and Chicago Regional Conference Highlights!

I just got back from Chicago this weekend and had a fabulous time at the Shaklee Regional Conference!!!

It was so great to meet Roger Barnett, the CEO of Shaklee. 

Here is a picture of some of the Hoffmann group with Roger. My friend and distributor in my group Cherie drove with me from Indiana. My mom is also with us here and our friends Ginny and Dawn, representing some from Wisconsin. Great time!


You may remember Roger and his wife, Sloan on Oprah talking about Shaklee's awesome green cleaning line Get Clean. Here is the clip if you missed it.

One of Roger's visions is to end malnutrition and for Shaklee to earn a Nobel Peace Prize for it!!

There were three regional conferences happening this weekend and Roger was able to join us in Chicago because we had the most preregistered attendees! It was so great to have him there. It was especially nice for my parents, who are new Shaklee Directors and were honored at a special VIP dinner with Roger on Friday evening. Here they are with him:

I also got to meet and talk with Dr. Jaime McManus, MD. Dr. Jaime is the chair of medical affairs and health sciences and education at Shaklee and she is SO great to talk to! :)

Dr. Jaime talked about the globesity epidemic and how the world is simply getting bigger and bigger! 

2 out of 3 Americans need to lose weight. 

1 out of 3 will die prematurely.

70-80% of doctor visits are weight related!! 

And unfortunately, doctors do not have a ton of education in the nutrition area.

 Science:

Shaklee is known for the quality science backing their natural products. This was the main reason why my dear husband, who is a PharmD, PhD in natural product research at Purdue, was so impressed by the company and willing to give the products a try.

In a 12 week study looking at the Cinch Inch loss program, Cinch helped people to lose fat and retain muscle mass while losing inches.  Another great thing that came from that study was the drop in Cholesterol! The study showed a 20 point drop in cholesterol for the people receiving Cinch. If your Cholesterol is above 200, you are in a dangerous range.

Another study looked at Cinch inch loss products with moderate exercise. This was a 6 month study. Half of the participants did exercise alone. The other half did exercise plus a Cinch Shake daily. The results: weight dropped, lean muscle mass increased and body fat decreased with the group who had the Cinch Shakes!

The last study Dr. Jaime talked about was Cinch plus Vitalizer. It was a 9 month study. There were three groups:

1. placebo who did not exercise or receive any Cinch or Vitalizer

2. Exercise alone

3. Exercise plus Cinch Shake and Vitalizer

Results: group 3 who received Shaklee did better with blood pressure, heart rate and muscle mass. Their bone density improved too. Group 1 actually got worse over the 9 month period by not doing anything.

And our group had a fantastic time learning about the new...

Shaklee 180 Program!!!

This is the exciting Inch Loss program with awesome incentives for everyone that Shaklee is launching in January! I am super excited about it. One of the awesome things about this program is that EVERYone can get their products for 

FREE!!!! 

It's really easy to do this too! When you use one of the two Shaklee 180 kits and share with 3 friends who use it too, yours is FREE!!! 

And theirs could be free also if they share with 3 people, etc.

So great!!!

There are two kits to choose from and each one comes with a FREE Shaklee lifetime Membership!!!:

1. Shaklee 180 Turnaround Kit:

This has everything you need for a complete 180 turnaround in your weight loss journey. Two meals per day and includes your choice of flavors of Smoothie Canisters, Energizing tea, Snack and Meal Bars and the Metabolic Boost! 

2. Shaklee 180 Lean & Healthy Kit:

This has everything you need to maintain a healthy weight. Your choice of two Smoothie canisters and also Vitalizer Multi Nutrient Pack!

I am already doing the Cinch equivalent to the Lean & Healthy Kit every day and I LOVE it!!!

If you don't know my weight loss story, you can see it HERE.  Shaklee's inch loss program has helped me get to where I am today with my weight and now I am maintaining with it along with moderate exercise and eating balanced and healthy meals.

Here is my before picture after having 2 children 22 months apart:
 

And here's my after Cinch transformation picture!

And the really cool thing about Shaklee 180, is that now I am working on my After, After picture! No other inch loss program follows people to the after, after but Shaklee is helping us keep it off for good! I am so excited to show you that picture in the next few months! :) 

The products are powered by the amino acid Leucine, which is clinically proven to burn fat while retaining lean muscle mass and losing inches in the process! It is a safe and natural supplement to add to your moderate exercise routine for optimal results and I truly love it. Basically, the shakes and bars are healthy alternatives to food you may already be eating, that have the right amount of protein, carbs and fat your body needs along with the key ingredient Leucine.

For those of you familiar with Cinch, The Shaklee 180 products are very similar with some slight changes to the Protein ingredients. The packaging has changed too and looks great! They are changing the sugar to a mix of pure sugar cane and Stevia and the sugar content will be lower. It continues to have a low glycemic index, which means it will not spike your blood sugar and is an excellent food for people with diabetes.  And the fiber is changing to a blend of soluable and insoluable. I tasted all 4 flavors of smoothies at the conference (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and cafe latte) and they are Fantastic!!! And the 3 in 1 Boost is now becoming Metabolic Boost. Same great benefits of boosting the metabolism and reducing sugar cravings. The vitamins were taken out because you will get enough with the shakes and bars and when you are ready to go to the Lean and Healthy Kit, you will get them through Vitalizer.

One really awesome thing about the Shaklee 180 program is the incentives Shaklee provides you to keep on with your weight loss journey. You can log your progress  and earn points toward rewards like ipads, iphones, exercise balls, weights, videos, etc. And then be entered in to win bigger prizes like a trip for two to the Global Conference (Nashville this August) and to Fashion Capitols of the World like PARIS!!! Get a photo shoot with a world class photographer and a $2000 shopping spree!!!! Yes, Please!!! :)


Can't wait till January?? Well, get started on your after picture right now with CINCH! It's still available and still the best inch loss product line out there right now. And if you order the Cinch Transformation Pak by November 30, 2012 on autoship and keep it on autoship for three consecutive months, your forth month is still absolutely FREE!!!!!


So what are you waiting for? Get a head start on keeping those holiday pounds off Today!!!! 

Are you ready to make a 180??

Thanks for reading! Would love to hear from you. Please visit me on Facebook soon and be sure to check out my small business Saturday special there this Saturday, Nov. 24th!!!


Rebecca

 

Shaklee Global Conference Highlights from Vegas!

Hello!!! I am back from my first of many Shaklee Global Conferences and I am SO excited to share highlights with you! The conference was in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Hotel and it was so awesome and inspiring! Have you been to the MGM before? It is probably the size of Rhode Island! I went with my mom and needless to say that we got our exercise in with all of the walking we did! lol

There were 6000 people at this conference! 1000 more then last year in Washington DC! The music therapy conferences that I am used to are not that big so it was definitely an experience! :)

 Here is the stage in the Grand Arena (where things like the Country Music Awards take place) right before the conference kicked off with Chairman and CEO Roger Barnett's talk.

And here is Roger with his three young children. 

 

And here is a picture of Roger's wife, Sloan, who gave an awesome and inspiring talk on the last day of conference. Sloan is the reason why Shaklee products are used in the White House!! How cool is that?

His son, Spencer, was the reason he found and fell in love with Shaklee, after Spencer's asthma went away when they switched to Shaklee's Get Clean line of non-toxic household cleaning products. You may have seen the story when Roger and his wife Sloan were on Oprah a few years back.

Roger and his wife purchased Shaklee 8 years ago after putting 20 million dollars into researching the best company for their family! He has taken Shaklee above and beyond any other company's compensation plan and dream plan! Over 3600 people walked across the stage being recognized for different accomplishments during the conference!! (new directors, cars, trips, million dollar earners, etc) It was amazing to see. You can read more about Roger HERE. 

Roger talked about Dr. Shaklee, a bio-chemist and chiropractor, who started Shaklee in 1956 with his sons. He was one of the first scientists to make the first multi-vitamin in 1915, called Vitalized Minerals. Here is a picture of Dr. Shaklee with that wonderful product that we now call Vita-Lea.

Dr. Shaklee began his company with the thought "everything in harmony with nature". And that holds true today. Shaklee became the first climate neutral company leaving a zero impact on the environment, in 2000. All products from Shaklee are in harmony with nature, are safe, non-toxic, with nothing artificially added. That is why Shaklee is the #1 Natural Nutrition Company in the US and why the average amount of time people have been using Shaklee products is over 17 years!!!

I grew up with Shaklee as my mom has been using the products for 37 years now! You can read more about my Shaklee story HERE. Here's a picture with my mom at the open meeting on Friday night.

The speakers for this conference were so awesome and inspiring! Among those were 2008 Olympic Athlete, Eli Bremer.

Eli talked about the surprise drug tests that all Olympic athletes have to go through, including him. Some athletes have failed these tests because of things found in the supplements they take. Because of this, many athletes are afraid to take vitamins and supplements! Eli has full confidence in Shaklee's nutrition including the Sports Nutrition and has passed drug tests over and over again while taking Shaklee nutrition, which he said has given him so much stamina, energy and overall health and performance as an athlete.

It was also exciting to hear from 7 other Olympic athletes, some of which are metal earners, on a live feed from London!

Half of the US Olympic woman's rowing team use and believe in Shaklee's nutrition, taking them to GOLD in London!!! Go USA!!! There are over 20 US Olympic Athletes who use Shaklee nutrition!

Another exciting highlight of the conference was Jacqui McCoy's talk. She is a 30 year old woman who lost over 200 pounds on the TV show Extreme Makeover Weight Loss edition and won the show!!

She did it with a lot of hard work in the gym along with Shaklee nutrition! Now she is coaching the season 3 contestants and they are all taking Shaklee's Vitalizer, as is trainer for the show, Chris Powell! She also pledged to us that she is starting the Cinch Inch Loss program to take off the last 20 pounds! Go Jacqui!!!

Shaklee made several very exciting announcements at this conference....

Our next Global Conference in Aug. 2013 is in Nashville, TN!! At the Gaylord Opryland Hotel! I am excited to go!

 The 2013 Dream Trip on a celebrity cruise to the Southern Caribbean on the Majestic Cruise line AND....

the 2013 International trip to PARIS, FRANCE!!!!!!!

Who wants to join me??! 

 
 
 I couldn't believe how many people are earning these awesome trips and also car bonuses! I have never had a brand new car before and certainly not one that someone else has paid for! :)

There were also some great displays in the exhibit room. Here is a wonderful Cinch inch loss display. Dr. Jaime McManus said that healthy weight is the key to optimal health. Would you agree? So many Americans are overweight to obese and it is now predicted that our kids will have a shorter lifespan then us! We need to make a change - NOW!!

Cinch has been clinically proven to take off fat but keeping muscle mass and losing inches in the process. This picture shows two scales, one with 5 lbs of fat on the left, and one with 5 lbs of muscle on the right! Look at that size difference! Wow!
 

The Cinch 3 in 1 boost helps raise metabolism, lower sugar cravings and is also a multi-vitamin!

Here is a short Cinch video of an awesome success story.

 


I personally love keeping my weight where it is but reshaping my body mass through a Cinch protein shake  or a meal bar in the morning, a snack bar or energy tea mid morning or afternoon, along with my Vitalizer strip of vitamins daily and a healthy lunch and dinner.  It is awesome for keeping me where I want to be! 


My mom and I also had fun socializing in Vegas. Some of my flute friends from Iowa were at the National Flute Assoc. convention at Caesar's Palace just down the street from me! So I walked up to Paris one morning to have crepes with them. It was so great to see all of them again!

My aunt and uncle also live in Las Vegas so we had fun hanging out with them for awhile too.

And my mom's friend from high school also lives in Vegas. We met up with her and her daughter along with my aunt for the open meeting that Shaklee had on Friday night.

We also had fun meeting other people in our Shaklee group for lunch on Saturday. Here is a picture with some of the people in the Hoffmann group who were there.

I came back to Indiana recharged and excited! I am so proud to be a part of such a wonderful company that has such a rich and long history or being environmentally friendly and who has been helping people gain better health for over 50 years!!! Wow! The stories I heard at this conference were just amazing!

So, my question to you is, who do you know that would like to earn $500-$1000 or more a month? I am looking for partners that I can help go on these trips I mentioned, earn that extra money each month and earn car bonuses in the process. Is that you? Or someone you know? So many people this weekend said they were so thankful to the person who introduced them to Shaklee. Could you be that person for someone else?

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed it!

See you Thursday for more Organizing.:)

Rebecca