Isagenix Review

In my search to incorporate optimal nutrition while building muscle and losing weight, I was introduced to a company called Isagenix.

I decided to do some research on Isagenix, and quickly found that there are very few, hard to find, negative reviews of their products. I felt suspicious of this, but decided to give it a try regardless. And, according to all the positive reviews, I was curious.

Isagenix's main products are the cleanse and shakes/meal replacements. The idea is that you start off with either the 9 day or 30 day cleanse, see amazing results, and feel so great that you want more.

Seemed okay to me. I ordered the 30 day system.

The first product I tried were the IsaLean Shakes. The flavors are chocolate and vanilla. I admit, they arn't bad, but I had to play around with how much water to add to make the texture right for me. I found a bit more watery was good for me. Personally, I preferred the vanilla flavor.

The second product to try was the Ionic Supreme. This stuff is pretty gross. However, I do not react well to the taste of higher amounts of ginger, and this stuff has enough ginger to make me gag. I found watering it WAY down helped this issue.

Next, the Cleanse For Life. This liquid was much more tolerable, and with a little added water, tasted reasonably pleasant to me.

Snacks come with your order. These are small, cocoa powdery wafers. They are odd when chewing, but not bad, and the taste was fine.

Lastly, they included Accelerator and IsaFlush! capsules which are to be taken daily as directed.

To start, for me, the shakes resulted in feelings of slight ick. In the, 'what am I putting into my body?' type of way. The ingredient list of the shakes is HUGE, and filled with words that are not easy to know their meanings without consulting a dictionary or Google. My mother always taught me, when buying a product, read the ingredients. If you can't pronounce it, or don't know what it is, it's probably smart to avoid. Sound advice. Although I've not always stuck to my mothers advice, as I start to focus on my health, I'm starting too take her words seriously. Unfortunately, when reading the IsaLean shake ingredient list, I did not feel empowered, I felt confused. I feel this is not a good thing for me. When choosing supplements or meal replacements, I do not prefer complexity, I prefer simplicity.

Some Isagenix advocates could potentially say that I'm simply not knowledgable of what these named ingredients are. Or that I'm not educated enough to understand the 'big' words listed. I consider myself of slightly above average intelligence and overall life knowledge/experience. If I'm having trouble figuring out the ingredients, I know I am not alone. Simplicity is not an unreasonable feature, if you, like I, desire it.

On to the Cleanse For Life product. In all honesty, I felt nothing happening. I guess when I picture a cleanse, I picture things, like toxins, being flushed out of my system. Nothing that I would have considered a flushing experience happened. In fact, quite the opposite. Yep, constipation and irregular bowel movements that were painful was my experience.

Next up is the Ionic Supreme. I've read that this stuff causes amazing energy. To be honest, I cannot say one way or the other if this is true. Here are the factors based on my experience. I've been working with a trainer for about two months, which consists of regular exercise. I currently have amazing energy and my mood is super positive awesome! However I've found that whenever I workout regularly, I experience the same type of energy and enhanced mood. Therefore, I do not feel able to say if the Ionic Supreme really helped in that department.

Let me reflect on the Accelerator and IsaFlush! capsules. In all honesty, I was not clear on what the Accelerator capsules were supposed to do. I can, however, attest that the IsaFlush! capsules didn't seem to work for me. I wasn't clear if the IsaFlush! capsules were simply Isagenix's version of a laxative. At any rate, it wasn't flushing shit. (pun intended)

The only product I really liked of the lot were the cocoa powdery wafers or Snacks. The directions state to take two as a snack during the day, when needed, to curb hunger. These worked well for me. I felt full for a good 2 hours after consumption.

My overall assessment of Isagenix is that it wasn't for me. Particularly on any sort of long, ongoing, sustainable basis. It seems no different to me then a specialty product that, although prides itself on amazing nutritional benefit, you'd have to rely on for the rest of your life in order to be effective as an amazing weight loss product. Meaning, I'm not convinced that once one stops taking this product, one would actually keep the weight loss achieved from Isagenix.

If continued meal replacement is what you want, and can deal with that on a long term basis, this product might work well for you.

Isagenix may also be a product to consider when focusing on major lifestyle changes around food is too challenging for you currently. After all, it is pretty simple. Two shakes, one meal of 600-800 calories a day, and snacks in between. If you follow this plan, you will lose weight, and have more healthy nutrients in your system.

Isagenix does advocate toward healthy, organic eating.

It is of my personal opinion that learning to eat a consistent, healthy diet, and obtaining nutrients from that diet, is ultimately going to be a more effective, long term, weight loss plan.

I advocate for supplements to support weight loss and muscle growth. At this time, I would not encourage meal replacement products on a long term basis. I once did, but as one learns, beliefs and ideas can change.

Eat fruits and vegetables. It's the only diet proven to be 100% safe, and if consistent, effective.

As this Isagenix review doesn't cast an 'amazingly positive super great products' point of view, I expect more then a few people will try to convince readers, through comments, that I'm full of nonsense and I don't truly understand how the product works or what makes it so amazing. Be aware, they will be convincing.

I would like to emphasize, this is MY EXPERIENCE of the listed products. If you're at all curious about these products, by all means, create your own experience! Make your own, well informed, decisions.

Month 2 Progress- Sept. 2012

Why hello readers!!!

Today marks two months of working out with my trainer, Jeri. Check out her web page at EverchangeFitness.com.

I am feeling great! Some of the results I have noticed are apparent in how my clothing fits. My pants are being held up by a belt on its last hole, that I had to make! As for my shirts, I notice that they are falling a bit better. I've also noticed that I have a more streamline line on my sides. Meaning, my tummy is not sticking out to the sides as much.

As for my energy, it's sky rocketed! I'm doing more in my days and having the energy to last the whole day. It's a great feeling to not be quite so tired all the time.

I'm sleeping much better now that I have a bed that is not falling apart! This has greatly improved my quality of sleep hygiene.

My emotional health is fabulous. I've warded off depression for two months now! Which is a great feat for me. I am very proud of myself. On that front, I've stopped taking Abilify altogether. Therefore, I have less toxicity in my system. Also Abilfy is a major factor in all of my weight gain over the last few years. So stopping that medication has helped me not only feel a cleaner energy overall, but now I'm no longer fighting against the pill from hell with weight loss.

So that's it folks! Next update will be in a month and will include 3 month progress pictures.

Adios!