ShapeWorks™ Personalised Nutrition - Know your body type

Weight management, energy, fitness & the active body

Weight Loss or Weight Gain

Based on the best research available, Herbalife have balanced the need for basic supplementation with the role of protein and its effective role in controlling appetite. Shapeworks programmes provide sound vitamin and mineral supplementation along with personalised protein to cater for customers' meal replacement needs.

Personalisation

The concept of ShapeWorks is based on the principle that shape & weight are related, but are not the same thing. You understand your body type and lose inches (from your shape), in the process of lowering your weight at the same time.

Most people dont understand their shape so they have unrealistic expectations & go on fad diets to try to get rid of fat. They might lose weight, but they cant keep it off. So the cycle continues without complete success or long-term fulfilment.

If you eat fewer calories than you burn, you lose weight. However most diets dont work, permanently, and rather make you malmourished and more fat. Thats why we need nutrition and not starvation.

Fat can either be distributed across the upper or middle sections of the body or in the lower section.

The key to healthy weight loss is, making sure the reduced calories you eat are providing the nutrition you need.

Know your Shape

Upper body Fat Distribution

Upper body fat is usually caused by diet and lack of exercise. Fat around the waist usually means there's also internal fat, which may cause serious health problems. Reducing internal fat can dramatically improve your health. Cutting calories alone will not eliminate upper body fat.

Lower body Fat Distribution

Lower body fat is partially inherited and partially a result of diet. This type of fat does not cause specific health problems, but its resistant to exercise and diet. Cutting calories and increasing exercise may not be sufficient to reduce lower body fat, especially if you have a low metabolism

Proportional body Fat Distribution

For proportional fat distribution, you may not notice weight gain because fat is spread proportionately throughout your body.

Your Body Mass Index

BMI is a mathematical formula to assess relative body weight. The measure correlates highly with body fat. Calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters (kg/m 2 ).

Your Resting Metabolic Rate

Your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) is the minimum number of calories your body needs to support its basic physiological functions, including breathing, circulating blood and all of the numerous biochemical reactions required to keep you alive. Your RMR is generally 60-75% of your total daily caloric expenditure.

Knowing the minimum number of calories your body needs is important if you're trying to lose, gain or maintain your current weight. Your ShapeWorks Coach will personalise your programme depending on your resting metabolic rate.

Personalised Protein

Protein helps build lean body mass. Each kilogram of lean body mass burns about 28 calories per day; while fat tissue burns very few calories - only about 4 calories per kilogram per day. So, the more lean body mass, the more calories you burn each day.

If you are active, you will be burning more calories than your estimated resting metabolic rate. The amount of protein in your ShapeWorks diet will vary according to your BMI, RMR, and weight management goals.

Summary

So overall, losing weight is harder if you have lower-body fat, but medical benefits of losing upper body fat are greater. Luckily, as you lose upper-body fat, you will lose lower-body fat as well.

A lot of research has been done on weight loss and nutrition in the past few years and Herbalife's products are now scientifically proven as a solution for permanent weight loss, no matter what our shape.

Their are many inspiring weight loss testimonials from people who have benefited from ShapeWorks which is a diet programme that works synergistically with and promotes the benefits of exercise and a healthy active lifestyle

The products are used successfully by the Team Herbalife professional athletes which includes Great Britain elite International Olly Freeman as he prepares and anticipates in his triathlon race season.

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