-1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says, our bodies are our
temples and we must honor God with our bodies. As somebody who
use to be obese and a border line diabetic, I have firsthand
experienced not only how important our faith is and knowing
where our strength originates, but how important it is to honor
the bodies we were given.
-Determined to change my lifestyle and seek wisdom
and guidance on how to begin to restore my body, I started by
getting a gym membership and as I ignorantly stumbled from
machine to machine, one of the trainers caught sight of me and
decided to stop me and begin helping me. Over the next couple
months, he mentored me and I also began to “receive” a desire to
learn more about nutrition and the role it plays not just for
weight loss, but simply for long term sustainable health.
-All throughout my journey, which still continues by
the way, I knew that I had to change my diet, but I knew
simplicity, sustainability, flexibility, and quality were a must
if I wanted to see long term results.
-Therefore, I
began to integrate vitamins, probiotics, good sources of
proteins and fats, and other purposed driven nutrients into my
diet, which played a huge role in my lifestyle change, but I
didn’t cut out flavor and I certainly didn’t jeopardize quality.
I wanted to continue enjoying everything I put in my body and
know that the quality was there as well.
-Convenience and affordability played a big role as well. Between trying
to get through high school, while working at the same time, I
didn’t have much extra time or money. So, I figured after doing
some research that integrating a nutritional shake into my diet
would allow me to get a lot of the nutrients I needed within the
time constraints I was working under in an affordable manner.
-However, every shake that I found,
was either full of artificial sweeteners, fillers/additives, a
laundry list of unpronounceable chemical based ingredients, or
it simply did not fulfill what I needed, and the two that I did
find, were way beyond my budget. I actually found that it was
cheaper, tastier, and I felt better when I would simply make my
own shake with my own natural clean wholesome ingredients. It
allowed me to know exactly what I was placing in my body, it was
surprisingly more affordable, and it was certainly a much
healthier and reliable way for me to get a lot of what I needed.
-The ONLY thing that it wasn’t - was more convenient. I had to go to the
grocery store and buy everything that I needed - cut, dice, peel
and prep everything that went into my shakes, which was not
ideal, because for those times that I wasn’t home or didn’t have
the time, I would fall short, which is where the initial idea
for BestBodiesforLife started.
-After graduating from high school, I decided that instead of going to
college, I wanted to take what I call now, a leap of faith and
move to Texas where my uncle lived and I knew would be a great
place to start working on developing what is now our
BestBodiesforLife LifeStyle Meal Replacement Shakes. Through
months of playing with ingredients and recipes and working with
certified formulators and nutritionists, we were able to create
the perfect nutritional shake, or as I like to call them – our
lifestyle shakes. A shake made with not only, natural clean
purpose based ingredients, and no fillers, additives, artificial
sweeteners, but also made to have a smooth, silky, sweet and
delicious taste.
-Our mission is to provide you with great tasting quality
nutritional products to help you throughout your lifestyle
change.