Why You Should Try the Aloe 9 day Cleanse with Forever Living
By someone who was rubbish at diets but has lost 20 inches on the cleanse!
*Disclaimer: I am not in any way affiliated with Forever Living or its distributors. I did not, and will not, receive any reward (financial, gift of products or other) for writing this article. All thoughts and opinions are entirely our own. All diets or cleanses must be taken at the participants own risk having consulted a doctor.*
I am not one for diets. I have tried a few in my time, from cabbage soup diets to no carbs. As soon as I know psychologically I am on a diet, all I want to do is eat. I even went on a vegan health kick and force fed myself kale but sadly Oreos were vegan and so I just ate those instead. The worst thing I ever ate was a homemade vegan raw chocolate bar made out of dates. Put me off for life!
I have brought gym memberships and failed to go but spent a fortune on gym clothes. I looked the part on the 3 occasions I actually went and then wondered if sitting in the car park with a big mac constituted as going to the gym… well I did go TO the gym, just not IN to the gym!
Eventually I gave up with the fads and decided to concentrate on just trying to maintain a healthy balanced diet. Two cups of tea and half a packet of custard creams before getting out of bed turned out not to be that balanced and by the time we went to Spain on holiday I was feeling really unhealthy.
It had got to the point that I struggled to reach my shoe laces as my belly got in the way and a short walk up a hill would leave me really out of breath. Louise and I once climbed up Sugar Loaf mountain in Wales, only to be lapped by 3 overweight pugs! That was a very sobering moment.
- Louise had told me about the Aloe cleanse, a 9 day reset programme. She had seen great results when she had done it before. We discussed it thoroughly and did our research before organising delivery with our local Forever Living UK distributor.
Taken from the Forever Living website:
“Look better and feel better in just nine days with this expertly-devised cleansing programme. Designed to kick-start the F.I.T. programme, prepare your body and adjust your mindset, C9 provides the perfect starting point for transforming your diet and fitness habits. Based around Forever’s bestselling Forever Aloe Vera Gel, this nutritionally-balanced programme will allow you to see real results in just nine days.”
After collecting our boxes we had a peak inside!
- 2 x 1 litre bottle Forever Aloe Vera Gel (digestive aid)
- 1 x Forever Lite Ultra with Aminotein Vanilla (provides protein, minerals and vitamins)
- 1 x Forever Therm (vitamins to provide supplemented support)
- 1 x Forever Garcinia Plus (Keeps metabolism and sugar levels at correct levels)
- 1 x Forever Fibre (digestive health)
- 1 x Shaker
- 1 x Tape Measure
- Information booklet
Aloe Vera C9 kit
BUY FROM A FOREVER LIVING DISTRIBUTOR
These products can be purchased on line however forever living UK will only offer a 100% money back guarantee if you have bought it direct from their distributor. They are worried that boxes can be tampered with if they are purchased from elsewhere. You also get 24/7 online support and a team of doctors, dietitians, nutritionists and tutorials available to support you through the cleanse. It is important to consult your doctor before starting any kind of cleanse or diet.
You only get out what you put in effort wise and straying from the designed programme will alter the results you may see. We saw great results but will also say there were a few hard days. Day 3 for us was the hardest however we managed to complete our programmes fully.
What Is Expected of You
During the first two days you will take supplements of the garcinia and therm tablets. You are allowed some free foods, as described in the handbook, as snacks. Prepare before you start the cleanse to ensure you have all the snacks in place before you begin. You do not need to put yourself in a situation where you are having to walk past the hot chicken counter or the bakery section of your local supermarket for asparagus and sugar snap peas. Don’t torture yourself!
You must drink lots of water for whole cleanse but once you get going you get used to it and start to crave it naturally. You should stay as close to the book’s recommendations as possible for the best results during the cleanse. You are allowed the shakes as described too but the supplements you take help to regulate your sugar levels and therefore alleviate the hunger pangs. You also need to drink some Aloe juice and the fibre drinks. These are more acquired tastes but the benefits far out weight the flavour.
Low impact exercise of just half an hour is recommended in order to help the cleanse. Nothing too strenuous as you have vastly cut down on your normal calorie intake and to ask you to cycle from London to Brighton on day two would not be wise! A gentle half hour stroll will do.
On days 3-9 you can add in a 500 calorie meal which you can either have at lunch or dinner, whichever suits your schedule. You continue with the shakes (you can choose the flavour when ordering) for the other 2 meals.
The fact that we could have free foods meant that from a psychological view point, we knew we could eat. It wasn’t as though someone was saying “NO! You can’t eat until we say so” and we didn’t feel restricted. This made a huge difference through this cleanse.
By this point, when I woke up I was actually craving water and not tea and biscuits. Several times during the cleanse I asked Louise “Who am I turning into?” as I was craving fruit, water and clean fresh food, not what I was used to.
How Did It Measure Up?
We had measured ourselves before we started - waist, chest, thighs, hips, calves and biceps. The results speak for themselves. There is a page in the handbook and a tape measure in the kit for you to record your start and finish measurements. By the end of the 9 days I had lost a total of 20 inches and Louise had lost 22 inches. We found that most of this was from our waist and thighs. It is important to remember that this 9 day reset is designed to kick start you into either their follow on product, F15, or to a healthier balanced lifestyle.
There is no point in doing this cleanse if you wish to go back to your old eating habits. This journey should inspire you to continue to eat well and exercise more. It's a reset. Not only will it reset your body, but it will reset your mind!
As I said, I haven't had much luck before now. We finished the cleanse a week ago today and I feel amazing. My skin is clear, I am hydrated, I eat clean food and am at a point where I feel I can regulate my calorie intake. Something I have often felt unable to do.
Apart from one day where we had a surprise delivery of a well known fried chicken establishment from our son, we have not wavered. If we are due to meet a friend or have a meal out for a birthday (both of which happened to be scheduled for the week after we finished) we managed to balance this with healthy choices and have not beaten ourselves up about it.We had measured ourselves before we started - waist, chest, thighs, hips, calves and biceps. The results speak for themselves. There is a page in the handbook and a tape measure in the kit for you to record your start and finish measurements. By the end of the 9 days I had lost a total of 20 inches and Louise had lost 22 inches. We found that most of this was from our waist and thighs. It is important to remember that this 9 day reset is designed to kick start you into either their follow on product, F15, or to a healthier balanced lifestyle.
There is no point in doing this cleanse if you wish to go back to your old eating habits. This journey should inspire you to continue to eat well and exercise more. It's a reset. Not only will it reset your body, but it will reset your mind!
As I said, I haven't had much luck before now. We finished the cleanse a week ago today and I feel amazing. My skin is clear, I am hydrated, I eat clean food and am at a point where I feel I can regulate my calorie intake. Something I have often felt unable to do.
Apart from one day where we had a surprise delivery of a well known fried chicken establishment from our son, we have not wavered. If we are due to meet a friend or have a meal out for a birthday (both of which happened to be scheduled for the week after we finished) we managed to balance this with healthy choices and have not beaten ourselves up about it.
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