PREGNANCY HEALTH & HERBALIFE

Laura Turek, Milwaukee, WI

SUBJECT: Herbalife Pregnancy – Weight Loss After Pregnancy

PRODUCTS: Pregnancy – Form 1, 2 & 3, Celluloss

After Pregnancy – Ultimate Program

Hi, this is Laura Turek,  from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I was introduced to the products by Lisa Mueller in April of 1997. I was five months pregnant with my second child. She introduced me to the Formula 1, 2 & 3 as a nutrition program and the Celluloss for extra Iron. I took that into my Doctor. He totally loved it. (Because he knew that I didn’t eat right!) He took me off my prenatal vitamins and my extra Iron supplements. I took a shake for breakfast. I took my Form 2 & 3 three times a day and my Celluloss 2, three times a day. My son was born perfectly healthy. He is now 2 years old. He has not had a cold or an ear infection. My first child was always sick. So I totally attribute that to the nutrition.

When my son was about seven weeks old the baby weight kind of stopped coming off. I was 181 pounds, size 16-18. I was still wearing some of my maternity shorts. I went right away on the Ultimate Program with the Activated Fiber. My first 3 months I lost 50 pounds and better yet, I went from size 16-18 down to a size 5! I just felt great throughout the whole program.

I really recommend Herbalife to those of you who have weight loss customers. If they are currently pregnant get them to definitely stay on the nutrition. If they have an Iron deficiency – definitely get them on the Celluloss or keep them on the Celluloss – it also helps with the swollen ankles for the water retention.

So – I hope you all can use this! Thanks for listening! Have a great day!

Dory

SUBJECT: Herbalife Products

I had a baby five months ago and I remained on Herbalife products my entire pregnancy. I do have a four-year-old son so I was pregnant before and I did notice a tremendous difference. My first trimester of being pregnant the first time I was extremely tired. Falling asleep at the wheel on my way to work after a whole night of sleep. I did not experience any lethargy during this pregnancy. I kept my energy level up. I did stay on the Herbal Concentrate. I had some every morning with Orange Juice. That’s pretty much all the Herbal Concentrate that I would drink. Of course the Formula 1, 2 & 3 I stayed on. I did that twice a day. I basically took all the products that I take now. Aminogen, Thermobond. I went to Refresh Green and Beige, but I did stay on that and I was very, very fond of the body buffing and contouring cream to help keep my skintight. I did not get any stretch marks.

My first pregnancy I gained 45 pounds. I don’t know if it was from over eating, but I know it was from lack of nutrition. My second pregnancy I only gained 22 pounds. I looked great. I felt great and was actually one week late – delivering. My first pregnancy I was four weeks early. I don’t know if that has anything to do with it either. My first baby was only 6 lbs. 9 oz. and my second little girl that I just had was 9 lbs.’ 1 oz. and very, very healthy.

I hope that helps. The products that I would recommend that people stay away from and I’ve heard Herbalife tell me to do that was, AM & PM Cleanse and Tang Kuei which is a natural muscle relaxant. Some of our new products that are out, the Woman’s Choice, Garlic – those are the products that I would highly recommend people take. A natural antibiotic (Garlic) you want to keep so that you stay healthy, but don’t over do it.

Tracy W. and Maria K.

SUBJECT: Pregnancy – Healthy Baby

PRODUCTS: NRG tea & Herbal Concentrate

I have a Distributor up north who basically purchases the products for her health at a discount. She had her fifth pregnancy this past year. (in 1999) She called me up very excited. For one thing, her pregnancy did go much better as far as her energy levels. To me having four children at home, that in it self is amazing! The NRG had her feeling more energetic than she ever had been in her pregnancy. But for her, the most important thing was that when her baby was born they do an Apcar test. The Doctors do this test twice. Immediately upon birth and then once five or ten minutes later. Her little girl was born and instantly upon birth when they did that testing the baby had a 10! She and her Doctor were very happy to see such a healthy baby!

She was so pleased with the results from NRG and Herbal Concentrate for energy. Being pregnant she wanted to avoid coffee and caffeine sodas. The Herbalife products gave her a great lift! I just wanted to share this pregnancy and energy story with you.

SANDRA & JAN

SUBJECT: NURSING MOTHERS AND PREGNANT WOMEN

INTRODUCTION:

A couple of things Jan doesn’t mention, that she also uses are the Aloe Juice, MentaBalance, Toning Creme, Florafiber, and Tang Kuei

 

 

SANDRA: A lot of people have been asking me what products are safe for pregnant moms and nursing mothers. I know that you are a nursing mother and I wonder if you would share with us what products you take? Maybe start around delivery time.

 

JAN: I did take the products all through my pregnancy, so I was already on Formula 1, 2 and 3 and I was also taking the X-Cal so I continued taking that and I also took the Tang Kuei. I take two before bed and that helps me relax and sleep better and keeps my hormones a little better checked. The other things that are perfectly safe for a nursing mother to take are the cell-u-loss, and that gives you a little additional iron which can help you rebuild your strength after delivery, and Aminogen, which I personally need for helping break down the protein. ThermoBond I take primarily when we go to restaurants. These are the products that I took while I was pregnant and I pretty much stayed on these after the baby and when I got home for approximately 6 weeks.

 

When my baby was about 6 weeks old, I was feeling kind of sluggish - I had had a C-Section. "Okay," I thought, "everything is going fine and she’s 6 weeks old, what I’m going to do is add in a 21-day Cleanser." I did the 21-day Cleanser and it was so dramatic for me. I obviously had a lot of the narcotics left in my system from the hospital that were hanging on and when I did that 21 day cleanse my mental clarity went right up. I felt so much better!

 

In addition, after I did the cleanse, I did do a little bit of the REFRESH GREEN AND BEIGE for a while and I just took 2 and 1 and it just took the edge off for me. What happened for me once I did that, I lost 2" for every pound I lost; so I lost 8-10 pounds, but I lost twice as many inches. That was really great!

 

Couple of things I just want to mention on that, on the ORIGINAL GREEN it specifically states that it is not recommended for nursing Moms, but the REFRESH GREEN and the tea, really just says, "if you are considering a weight control program, please consult your physician" and I just stick with my pediatrician and my principal physician and neither one of them had a problem with the products.

 

Now what I recommend for people, is that they go really gently, and that they are not looking to do the fast weight loss like they can do when they are on their own. When you are a nursing Mom, you have to look at whatever weight loss program you are going to be on and you have to add 500 calories and basically this is what my physician said. What we’ve found over years is that you need an extra 500 calories for the milk. Whatever weight loss program you are going to be on, you need to add 500 calories and that’s what you can do when you are breast feeding.

 

My progress has been slower because I really need those metabolism products. Everyone is different and I know people who have gotten rid of their weight very easily while breast feeding.

 

SANDY: You mentioned the tea, are you currently having some of the thermal beverage everyday?

 

JAN: Absolutely, I can’t live without it and I currently take the Aloe Juice as well. I’m really just about finished with my breast feeding and I’m anxiously awaiting starting back on my ORIGINAL GREEN because, like I said, I need those metabolism products.

 

Another thing I’d like to mention is that I really take a lot are the Rose-Ox and Schizandra and you know when you have your second child they just get so much more susceptible to getting colds and things like that and I’m telling you it makes a great difference. She also takes the Kindermens.

 

SANDY: So in effect, you are actually passing on the Rose-Ox and Schizandra right on to Zoie, right?

 

JAN: Right, and that’s what you have to realize is what you take in, that’s what you give to the baby, so the better quality of the stuff that you take in, the better quality of the stuff they take in and the better they are going to grow.

 

SANDY: That’s incredible and Herbalife definitely is something we want them to have.

Tammy R., Columbus, OH

SUBJECT: Herbalife Products During Pregnancy

PRODUCTS: Cell. Nutrition, Celluloss, Schizandra, RoseOx, Herbal Concentrate, NRG Tea, Herbalifeline, Gingko, Carboguard, X-tra Cal, Aminogen, Thermobond.

Hi this is Tammy  from Columbus, OH. I wanted to pass along some information to you to help you. You know, I just recently had a baby and I came into Herbalife five years ago. When I got on the products originally I lost 25 pounds in 8 weeks and I kept that off for 5 ½ years. Greg and I decided to have one more child. This would be our fourth child. I actually delivered my baby boy just this past year (2000) in June. He was a great 8 pounder. I wanted to let everybody know that I took all the products, (all the Herbalife products) during my pregnancy. I’ll tell you what I did.

You know it’s important that when you’re caring a child you really need even more nutrition then than any other time. So to me it only made perfect sense. Which of course, I’ve been in Herbalife long enough that I understand that now. But it is pretty common for a new person to be a little concerned and to be a little skeptical about taking the products. I wanted to let everybody know what I did. I still continued during my pregnancy to take all of my nutritional supplements. Now – when you’re pregnant – you definitely don’t want to be on a weight loss program. Therefore, I did not take the Green and Beige because I did not want to lose weight. As a matter of fact I gained 55 pounds during my pregnancy. Which might scare someone, but that’s what I did with all four of my pregnancies with or without Herbalife. (My first three pregnancies I didn’t have Herbalife in my life.) What I did was I took two shakes a day and ate when I was hungry because when you’re pregnant you need your nutrition and your food. Again – I wasn’t trying to lose weight, but I still got in my 2 shakes a day. I took my Formula 2, Formula 3, Celluloss, Thermobond, I drank a lot of the Herbal Concentrate during my whole pregnancy. That is what gave me my energy and helped my to feel good. It has the Green Tea in it, which is a great antioxidant. I took my Schizandra and Roseox. Lots of X-tra Cal. I would take 2 before bed and I remembered that in my earlier pregnancies I had severe leg cramps in the middle of the night. Just one time –during my whole pregnancy did I have a leg cramp! I took 6 X-tra Cal a day. A lot of times when you’re pregnant too, strictly in your last trimester, your Iron count may go low. Your OBGYN will check that. My Iron count only dropped one point. Which is so minimal in my last trimester. In that situation they wouldn’t even offer you to take an extra iron supplement. What I did was I just beefed up on my Celluloss. The Celluloss has extra iron and potassium in it. So you do want to be careful how much iron you get, but when you’re pregnant that’s when you need more. If you go and take an iron supplement, any woman will tell you that you will get constipated and you will not be happy being 8 – 9 months pregnant and constipated. That never happened to me. I took my Florafiber, Form 2, Form 3, my shake, my Celluloss, Thermobond, Aminogen, Schizandra, RoseOx, X-tra Cal, Herbalifeline for my heart, Carboguard, NRG tea here and there, and of course we didn’t have the Gold (HPLC) products then, but if I were pregnant now, I would definitely be taking the Gold products without a doubt.

The only thing that I did not take, and I talked to Dr. Jamie about this was the K-8, which I absolutely love. I did not take it during the pregnancy and I did not take the Tang Kuei during the pregnancy. The reason I did not do that was #1 – with the K-8, the only reason that they recommended not to take it is because there are no studies of pregnant women taking Kava Kava. So it was a little bit more on the conservative end, but I opted to choose not to take it. Tang Kuei – you want to be a little bit careful particularly in the beginning phase and the last phase of your pregnancy, first and last trimester, because Tang Kuei tends to get in to help relax those internal organs. So you definitely don’t want to do any relaxing of internal organs during the beginning phase and the last trimester of your pregnancy.

So I hope that helps everybody. You know I had a happy, healthy, beautiful, very quick, very sharp wonderful healthy 8 pound baby boy. (By the way, I did take Gingko during my pregnancy – I think that helped because this kid is a whiz!) I have all my weight off now – these products are awesome!

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