My Turbo Jam Journey

Over the last couple of weeks I have heard a ton of people say - Wow, look at you right back down to your small size again and your baby is only 1!!! HOW did you do it? In all honesty, I owe my success to my Beachbody Coach - Mindy Wender who is an amazing motivator and totally inspires me to reach higher and do more, and Chalene Johnson, the fitness Goddess of Turbo Jam, Turbo Kick, ChaLEAN Extreme, Hip Hop Hustle, Piyo, and the new and butt kicking Turbo Fire. Chalene is unbelievably motivating. I've only really had to give her a "grrrr" during a workout since starting Turbo Fire ((YES IT'S THAT INTENSE!!!)). She is so uplifting and full of energy that it only spreads through my TV to me while working out WITH her. I started Turbo Jam on July 26, 2009 and I was 140 pounds (6 weeks after having my baby girl). I needed to get back in shape. I had weight left over from pregnancy with my son 3 years prior to that. I knew that I had a small frame and I knew that any excess weight was all fat and that it needed to go away. I knew that I had every ability to be fit and in shape again. This is me the first week of Turbo Fire.





I started working out with Turbo Jam and i was LOVING it. I got to the point where I was telling everyone that I knew that they HAD to try Turbo Jam and how it was changing my life!!! Yes, literally changing my life. I was losing weight consistently I was feeling fit and in shape and most of all, I was energized and LOVED what I was doing! After Christmas I sat and realized I had hit a sort of plateau and couldn't really figure out why. But then it was clear as day, I was still eating whatever I wanted. I kept forgetting that I wasn't 16 anymore and wasn't able to go eat a double cheeseburger, fries, and a coke and continue on everyday like it was nothing. I got serious about watching what I was eating, cut out soda and left it at a "treat" like once a week and started drinking a TON of water. There my weight started falling off again at a pretty regular pace. I had given myself a goal weight of 115 lbs and on May 5, 2010 I had officially hit my goal and I was ecstatic!!! I decided that I needed to start making my health my number one concern, if not only for me, but for my family as well! I am a much happier person and I feel a better mom because Turbo is my mood regulator. When i'm feeling stressed or overworked, I push play and let it all come out with Chalene. This is me the first week of May.





I feel amazing.. I am now at 108 pounds and my body fat is at 23.8% - my stats are: Aug 09 / June 10
Lbs - 140/108
Waist - 38"/32"
Chest - 36"/33"
Hips - 35"/32"

I am currently doing the Hybrid Schedule of ChaLEAN Extreme (because "MUSCLE BURNS FAT") and Turbo Fire to tone EVERYTHING. I want to be tone and lean and I will stick with Turbo to do that!!! My nutrition is supplemented and assisted with my newest addiction - Shakeology (seriously so delicious). I am also now a Beachbody Coach myself and am loving EVERY minute of it! Becoming a coach has helped me in so many ways STICK with my goals and push myself that much harder. It keeps me accountable for my own health and fitness and I cannot wait until someone shares a story like mine with me and I know that I was able to help them reach their goals and feel fabulous!

Fire 30 - 1st try

OKay, so I just literally finished Fire 30 class of Turbo Fire. When I say JUST, I mean I was so quick to want to share my feeling and adrenaline with you, that I'm still dripping in sweat while I type. If anyone tells you, "it's not tough, I didn't sweat at all..." I'm giving you full permission to knock em out! Because they are lieing. I have never sweat like this, and I do a bunch of different workouts. There will never be a moment in Turbo Fire where you can say "this is too easy" because it's just not true. Granted, I had to stop a few times because I do still have bronchitis, and it was hard for me to breathe (maybe should've given it a few more days) but full out WOW.. NO denying that this is a WORKOUT! Cannot wait to see what the HIIT workouts are like!!!

Strech 40 Class

K, so today i'm STILL SICK.. i watched Fire 30 LOL and HIIT 25.. Then I did the Stretch 40 Class tonight which was AWESOME. I've never felt so great after a stretch/yoga class. Love it :)

That's all i've really got today. This sickness is killing me and I'm seeing the dr. tmrw at 2:45 so hopefully i'll get some medication and start feeling better.

Turbo Fire !!!!

Well, Turbo Fire FINALLY came in today :) I have decided that I will blog (as well as other blogs in between i'm sure) about my LOVE & excitement for Turbo Fire. I will be doing the ChaLEAN Extreme / Turbo Fire hybrid, so my schedule may not be the same as yours... I've decided I will finish out the rest of this week of the Burn Circuit of CLX, which would bring me to week 1 of Push Phase of CLX. On Monday I will begin doing 2 weeks of Turbo Fire so that I get used to that, then begin the Turbo Fire Hybrid schedule starting at week 4. That way I'm not going through the recovery weeks for the transition.

So tonight I did Burn Circuit 3, and then did about 15 minutes of the "new in class" for the FIRE 30 Class. I will definitely have to be doing the New In Class for awhile because I'll have to give myself the time to ge tused to the classes.

I hope that you join me in the Turbo Fire journey!!! As always get on my "like" page on facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=40600132&v=wall&story_fbid=137388712939731#!/pages/Quinnesec-MI/Brittnae-Giesau-Independent-Beachbody-Coach/116323228405006?ref=sgm&ajaxpipe=1&__a=26 (sorry link is so long!!!!) and then get me at www.teambeachbody.com/brittnaeg - join for a FREE or CLUB membership with me and we will DO THIS TOGETHER!!!!

waiting is so hard

Well since I was a psycho and ordered Turbo Fire without really paying attention to what I was doing, I didn't choose 2 day shipping and I'm utterly jealous of all the Twitter posts!!!! I could be going home tonight to DO Turbo Fire! Instead I wont be starting right away. I'll have to wait and read all of the "omg this is such an amazing workout" posts along with "aaaaaah just did my first Turbo Fire workout.." and i'll be sitting there going. OMG i'm so jealous..

For a side note i was doing Burn Circuit 2 yesterday (ChaLEAN Extreme for those that dont know what burn circuit 2 is) and today is day 18. Up until yesterday I had been doing them with the resistance bands alone. Yesterday while doing lunges i think I realized this isn't even weight for me. (which is awesome) so then I went to my mom's and my 14 yr old brother gave me his Reebok weights.. they are in my car and I cannot wait to use them tonight. I'm kinda sad that I'm on burn intervals tonight because i'd love to do nothing but weights, but i'll have to alternate.. So pumped to be doing MORE WEIGHT!!!!!!

cannot believe it!

Those sneaky sneaky peeps up in Beachbody - so here i am just minding my own business, getting on to Facebook so I can send some Shakeology info off to a friend. When the very first status update happens to be Carl Daikler spewing something about "Turbo Fire available now on your coach's store.." that was really all that I saw, there may have been more. So i read it probably 5 times, and finally grabbed my phone and hit my team group text with - 2 min. ago Carl Daikler posted that Turbo Fire is available go go go !!! and all of a sudden EVERYTHING blew up.. my facebook, twitter, everything... literally blew up! So as I just hit the rest day of week 2 of my ChaLEAN Extreme, here I go without even thinking and order Turbo Fire so fast I can't even think about it! (apparently that's the best way to spend money) and I've literally been a ball of fire ever since!

Sneaky sneaky - 2 days before the actual release and they bust out the early release!!! I LOVE being a Beachbody Coach, you just never know what you're gonna get... Now i have to sit and wait for it to come .... Seriously next week my UPS is gonna be like what is this chick on - Monday comes my Shakeology (with my free cup!!!!), then I guess Tues. or probably not until Wednesday will be Turbo Fire, oh and I ordered the Turbo Jam Live while i was down with ordering tonight so that my winner of my Turbo Jam Challenge will have their gift right away!!! I LOVE THIS!

My motivation!

I am coming up on the end of my first 5 weeks as a Team Beachbody coach and I have to say I am loving it. When I began I felt like I just wanted my discounts and maybe make a sale here and there. This has helped me SO much to push to the max. Yesterday I was dreading Burn intervals on ChaLEAN Extreme ALL day, yes I was excited to work out, but not too excited for that particular workout. I knew that I couldn’t just skip it, I knew I had to move forward and push on and I did and it was rough yes, but at the end I felt fantastic. That is always my key motivator and anyone that is a fan, customer, or just wants to learn more about Beachbody YOU are my motivation!!!!!

I am so excited to say that my mother-in-law is 64 and is LOVING Shakeology. She loves everything EVERYTHIGN about it. I’m giving her recipes she’s talking about all of the different things she wants to try with it and she feels awesome and is just plain LOVING it! TO top it off, she is 64 and is asking me to give her info on some programs that are geared toward her age. She wants to work out, she wants to get in shape and most of all STAY HEALTHY! It totally makes me feel great to know that I’m helping someone else and I just introduced her to something that she would’ve probably never known about!!!!!! Hm.. wonder if she could keep up with Turbo Fire/! *wink

Horrible day ugh

So after having 2 kids, married, living a pretty quiet life, I spend (and have spent) much less time in bars than most of my friends my age. Today was a reminder that I just shouldn't even try. I spent the ENTIRE day sick, which of course is a fabulous fabulous thing when you have a 3 & 1 year old... Ack.

On a much better note my Shakeology did help settle the stomach so that is yet another FANTASTIC addition to all the reasons why Shakeology is amazing!!!

Shakeology 3-Day Cleanse

So, if you know me yet or knew me prior to beginning my blog I guess I should say, you will know that I'm addicted to my Shakeology.. So after kinda hitting a little Plateau and feeling a bit down and out, I decided to fix myself up with a modified cleanse, I'm only doing 1 day, just because I kind of just want the wash out and it's hard when you have 2 very young children to stick yourself to that cleanse so much. So today I am doing my 1-day Shakeology cleanse. What is the cleanse you ask, well I would LOVE to tell you..

Shakeology 3-day cleanse

you can do LESS than 3 days (as I am) but NEVER more than 3 days, totally unhealthy for you! your day is going to go like this:

1. Green Tea
2. Breakfast -Shakeology
8-10 oz. of water
1 scoop shakeology
Ice
*can add fruit if you need to, but try to keep it just Shakeology
3. Snack 85 calories or less – fruit is usually the best option
4. Lunch - Shakeology
Same as above
5. Snack – 3rd Shakeology
Same as above
6. Dinner
Salad – grilled chicken or white fish
Approx 340 calories or less

As always A TON OF WATER!! ALL DAY LONG - WATER WATER WATER :)

Now, your last snack, you can definitely do either between lunch and dinner or after dinner before bed. For me, I like it between lunch & dinner only because I personally do not eat anything after dinner.

A few common questions that you may have...

Is the Shakeology cleanse only effective if you do it the full 3 days?
No! Still effective no matter if you do 1 day or 3, but REMEMBER do NOT do more than 3 days.

Is exercise okay?
Only if you’re feeling up to, do not get real rigorous with it, try to include it during a rest day. You are going to be a bit weaker, that is just natural so do not push it to an extreme workout.

How many calories per day?
800-1100

what is the ideal length of time to do this? - once every 3 -4 months

As always if you ever have any questions LET ME KNOW :) brittnaeg@beachbodycoach.com
I will blog tomorrow to update on any possible weight loss today!!!

**Waving** Hello all!

So, to anyone that may possibly be reading this, I have to openly admit that in the last week my social technological life has really expanded. I was always kind of "there" but never really "IN" there. Facebook yes, I spent countless hours with meaningless stalking of Facebook pages, however I have recently found a new appreciation for Facebook, Twitter, and blogging apparently! So be aware that these first few blogs that I'm sharing with the world are going to consist of a ton of rambling I'm sure of that.

Who am I? I am in latent terms - a granddaughter, daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend and the list goes on and on. My name is Brittnae, I am soon to be 25 years old and live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (yes it's really part of the US, and yes we do have electricity) with my family, husband and children. I was born and raised here and unless I can drug and drag my husband out of this place, I'm probably stuck here. My husband by the way is my high school sweetheart more or less - Edward (usually Ed). And our children, the magnificent Hunter and the beautiful Macy are 2 years apart.

Now, back to why I'm here... I spent a ton of time surfing and boring myself actually with the internet after about 5 minutes. I mean really, something like the web, and after I've checked my email and deleted spam and checked 3 notifcations on facebook, which I had actually already read 10 minutes prior on my cell phone, I was done. And I sat back and would be very bored and thoughtless of a new google search. I am now coming to you because in starting my own home based business I felt there is a huge part of opening up and sharing information and stories and the 'excitement" of my life with you all! So bear with me, it could be a smooth and boring ride or it could be very bumpy and treacherous.

I have recently become an Independent Beachbody Coach and it has filled this huge void inside of me called laziness. Apparently once I become a product of the brand name, actually have to take my own advice if you will. I have lost over 35 pounds in 9 months. I insantly became obsessed with the idea of Turbo Jam and have acquired a pretty decent girl crush on Chalene Johnson, so hey why not promote it right?!

So that's me, and from here on out, you will maybe hear nothing but my fitness and product information, or you could come in some day and find out that I have posted the wonderful story of trying to chase down a Lightning McQueen Powerwheels across my front yard driven by a 1 year old that is laughing hysterically and has no idea how to stop (but in greater detail of course).

So hello to everyone ~ and stay tuned :)