It is Fun to Cinch With Friends

I just got done spending an enjoyable couple of hours helping my friend Norine get started with her Cinch kit. She is a tepid computer user, so we laughed and had fun as we went through the Cinch Coach CD and got her profile setup. She lives 2000 miles away from me, so we were each on our own computers. I helped her put in her profile, where she groaned about her weight and measurements. I told her, "Hey, it is just a starting point, just think how much fun we are going to have as these numbers keep getting smaller and smaller". That made her feel better.

What made her very happy is that her cinch coach told her she needs to eat almost 1900 calories a day. We actually had trouble finding enough food for her to eat to get all that in. Now she doesn't even feel like she is dieting at all. As Shaklee says, "IT'S A CINCH!!!"

My friend wisely opted to let the Cinch Coach plan her menu for the next 2 weeks. When you get started with Cinch, it puts in 14 days of meals and servings size and snacks beginning the next day. So she learned how to print out her meal plan for each day and the shopping list that the Cinch Coach automatically figures out for her. Then we discovered that behind the meal plan are also lists of the meals for the food preparation ingredients. All she has to do is go pull the ingredients out for her day and she is all set. We then printed out her recipes.

I really like how these reports look. A person can have a paper trail to chronicle their journey. I am going to print out all the recipes and put them in sheet protectors and put them in a notebook. That way I can have them ready at my finger tips.

I can't explain how much fun this is to Cinch with people we care about. There are about a dozen people I am close to all Cinching and we reach out and ask each other questions, celebrate successes and giggle together. I met a gent online at Yahoo Games the other night who is interested in Cinch so I am mailing him a sample of the Shake flavors. He likes the idea that he can use the company's referral program to help get his Cinch program paid for.

I dropped a lot of weight in the last few days. These past 2 days, I have remained the same. I am glad about that. Usually when there is such a sizable drop in 2 days, the tendency is for the body to "rebound" a pound or 2 before it settles on the lower weight. Instead I am staying between the same 0.6 pounds give or take. That is just body fluctuations.

If you have been referred to my blog because someone cared about you enough to tell you about Cinch, please give this a try. The best case is, it works for you, too. The worst case is you get some healthy nutrition for a couple of weeks, that never hurts. I only know of one person who got her kit, made all these excuses (lactose intolerant, etc, etc) and gave her kit back to her brother. She didn't even attempt to go to the store to buy soy milk so she could consume the shakes without the dairy problem. Then when she was told you can have 3 scoops of shake and add water instead of milk, she didn't want to hear it. My heart breaks for her because she is about 20 years younger than me and bigger than I was at that age. I hate to think about what she will be when she is my age, since I gained a lot of weight over those 2 decades. I know how uncomfortable it is to be outside the norm for "big". Hopefully she will see her brother do well on this program and try again.

I understand a person has to be ready for this. Frankly I used the Holidays as an excuse to delay my start. I wasn't really sure this would work either. Do I wish that I had started sooner? Not really. I think this was the right time for me. I go throughout my day really HAPPY. I am glad I can help myself, but I am grateful that maybe my blog here can help others.

All I can say is, if you are reading this and have no idea who I am, please believe in yourself. Get back to the person who asked you to visit my blog and say, "Yes, I want to Cinch, will you help me?" If you want more information, come to our Cinch overview conference call on Monday nites at 9 pm Eastern time (except Major Holidays, next one is Memorial Day, we will have our calls each Monday in February). The phone number is 712-432-3973, the pin code is 123456#. On Thursdays, at the same time and number, we go over how you can Cinch with 3, Get Yours "Free". The company has a very exciting referral program so you can offset your Cinch products costs with referral income from Shaklee. We have a lot of people who are opting to do this. We welcome you to join us on these calls and then get back with the person who invited you to read my blog and ask them to help you with your first Cinch order with your Starter kit.

When your kit arrives, join us on our Cinch Coach CD training call on Saturdays, at 1 pm Eastern, same number and pin code as above. We will show you how the Cinch Coach CD works. Have your CD loaded before the call and join us. Be at your computer so you can walk through the steps as we talk about it on the call. My friend Jody, who has dropped probably more than 40 pounds by now (since August), has had tremendous success because she uses the Cinch Coach CD regularly and lets it help her remain inside the 30% protein, 40% carb, and 30% fat calorie ratios. She learned that the closer she stayed to those ratios, the faster she is losing.

She also is using the pedometer that came in the kit (look underneath that cardboard panel above the cinch shakes in the starter kit - the pedometer and tape measure are there). She said when she first put on the pedometer, she was only walking about 1200 to 1500 steps a day. She said she was a slug. So she consciously went about upping her steps to now she regualarly hits the recommended 10,000 steps a day. You put it on your waist first thing in the morning and keep it on until you go to bed. Every step counts. For me, because I have horrific knee pain, I am going to wait 50 more pounds before i begin the walk outside my regular daily activities. By then, the stress on the joints will be a lot less and the Shaklee joint health supplements will also have helped to build back up my knee joints.

If you are not sure what Cinch really is, scroll down to the first couple of posts on this blog. I give a pretty good explanation of the products and the program in those posts. Happy Cinching!!