During the process of dieting, your body is just as likely to digest your own muscle tissue as it will your fat cells, and this leads to a reduction in metabolism rate. [1] When you lose muscle mass, you always burn fewer calories... and that's NOT very helpful.

So, when you finish that 'diet', your reduced muscle mass will burn fewer calories than it did before, and the rest heads straight to your thighs.

This has been referred to as the yo-yo diet effect. Shaklee‘s original CINCH, and now the improved and delicious Shaklee 180 program interrupts the endless yo-yo cycle by halting that lean muscle loss. [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]

This Shaklee 180 program also shifts our emphasis away from body weight, and towards body composition. Everything in this meal plan focuses on the loss of unwanted inches from your belly, hips and legs. In the long run, its a lot more fun dropping from a size 16 to a size 8 than it would be worrying about what you weigh. You get the idea.

The CINCH/180 program was the first diet plan to halt the inevitable weight rebound by maintaining lean muscle mass. Research has clearly shown the power of leucine for preserving, as well as stimulating new muscle production, so that you can:

→ Keep (and build) the muscle you already have
        [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]

→ Burn the fat you don’t need, and

→ Lose the inches you don’t want.
        [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16]

Making Change

The most difficult task we face in life is change. Creating change is work, and work is hard. But, at the other end of the task we discover our pride, and the strength we developed as we completed our task. Ask anyone who has accomplished a huge task, and then look into their eyes. What you will see there is exactly what we all want, the sense of accomplishment that comes from making a turn-around in your health.

Because it’s easy to preach, I’ll stop there.

Let's review the tools that Shaklee provides, to make that change. With the right tools, you can build anything. Let us begin.

You will begin your program with the Shaklee 180 Turnaround Kit. This turn-key program includes 2 Life Shakes per day, or if you are on the go, they recommend a breafast shake and a Meal-in-a-Bar for lunch, plus a snack, and an energizing tea. Yum! You will also take 3 tablets of the Metabolic Boost, once per day. We will review all these products in detail shortly.

Don't forget to use the CUSTOMIZE buttton,
so you can select all your favorite flavors!

After the first month (or 2, if needed), you may shift to the Shaklee Life Plan [regular or Kosher], OR the Vitalizing Plan, both of which include one meal shake per day PLUS either Life-Strip OR Vitalizer (Mens, Womens, or Vitalizer Gold, with or without vitamin K), followed by a sensible dinner.

The particulars of the whole 180 program are detailed below but first,
let’s start with the Happy Ending.

The South Shore YMCA Study

The first Shaklee 180 study was published on Apr 30, 2008 in
Fitness Management.

I need to share this study to emphasize why Shaklee 180 is the perfect tool for dieting. Not long after Shaklee released the original CINCH Weight-loss Program, a Shaklee distributor (Rita La Rosa Loud) teamed with an exercise physiologist (Wayne Westcott) at the South Shore YMCA in Quincy, MA to conduct an exercise trial.

They enrolled 68 middle-aged men and women to participate in a supervised, 23-week strength-training program. Forty-six subjects completed the full 23-week program. [17]

Twenty-four participants consumed the Shaklee CINCH protein drink immediately after their training session, while the other 22 subjects did not receive supplemental protein. This is where it gets really interesting.

The group that did not receive the supplemental protein drink increased their lean muscle mass by 3.9 pounds and decreased their fat weight by 4.9 pounds, for an overall 8.8-pound improvement in their body composition.

However, the subjects who drank the CINCH shake increased their lean muscle mass by 5.5 pounds, and decreased their fat weight by 9 pounds, for a 14.5-pound improvement in body composition.

RESULTS:   The Shaklee group gained 25 percent more muscle, and lost 50 percent more body fat. while doing the exact same workout. And this occurred in a group with an average age of 59 years. [17]

So it became quite clear that the CINCH shake was an amazing tool for losing the flab, while adding on the lean muscle that will burn even more calories! Since its inception in 2007, the CINCH Plan has evolved into the new and improved Shaklee 180 program