Vega One #onechange Review and Challenge! I'm a Number Cruncher what are you??

As part of my #sweatpink ambassador group, Vega One invited us to participate in their #onechange nutritional shake challenge this week.

Good nutrition can be complicated and hard to personally figure out! I know I have struggled to find a good balance for years. I am always very excited to find a good protein drink that is easy to mix up (especially on the go!) and is good. Lets face it-if the protein drink tastes nasty, are you really going to drink it??!

Alot of times when I'm in a hurry to get to work, I don't have a proper breakfast and then the rest of my day I'm constantly hungry and snacking-thus usually over eating. I like to write down my food and log my calories, so numbers are very important to me.

So read on about the Vega #onechange challenge and how it helped me!

Whatever your dietary kryptonite, #OneChange is all it takes to start transforming old habits into super habits.

Doesn't that sound exciting??!!

Are you a "breakfast skipper", "number cruncher" "serial snacker" or "weekend splurger"??

I am definitely a Number Cruncher!!!

Dietary Kryptonite

• Hanger Management
  Caloric restriction shouldn't come between friends.
• Portion Pangs
  The 100-calorie snack pack called for seconds.

All calories are not created equal—make them count, nutritionally!

Less is more, right? So you keep score of everything you eat, as you eat it, in an app on your smartphone. Food and exercise are the columns on your weekly balance sheet, and you're an expert strategist when calculating how to make up for every indulgence.

#OneChange

You don't have to sacrifice nutrition to fit it all in.

Good nutrition isn't difficult. Vega One is #OneChange you can make to start feeling your best by transforming old habits into super habits. Made exclusively from plant-based, whole food ingredients, Vega One is all the essentials, all-in-one, giving you the complete foundational nutrition your body needs to build your day on. Great tasting with absolutely no preservatives, added sugar, or artificial flavors or colors, Vega One is also dairy, soy and gluten free.

Everything you need, nothing you don't.

Which Vega #onechange person are you???
Find out here and 
get cool recipes and a FREE Dieter's Guide:

http://myvega.com/onechange/?utm_campaign=FAOneChange&utm_medium=link&utm_source=blog&utm_content=FAOneChange0

I loved drinking my Chocolate Vega One shake in the mornings after my workout!  I especially love that its dairy free (lactose issues here!) and only 150 calories!! and when I mix it with water, spinach, banana and strawberries its still low in calories but high in protein and other vitamins!!! Win Win!!

What is one change that you will make nutritionally, starting today that you can commit long term to? 

The key is to find something that you can stick with and make a long term commitment to eliminate or change without it feeling like a sacrifice. Don't commit to staying away from chocolate if you know you can 't give it up forever. Instead, commit to only having chocolate once per week or once per month. I've found that when people make goals and resolutions, if they aren't attainable or practical-they won't last long.

My one change this month is to have more green leafy vegetables every day-I tend to want to eat more fruit than veggies.    

Kickstart your health with Vega One. Made from natural, plant-based, whole food ingredients, Vega One is packed with the complete foundational nutrition your body needs to build your day on. Each scoop or packet contains:

·         50% daily intake of vitamins and minerals

·         15 g protein

·         6 g fiber

·         1.5 g Omega-3

·         3 servings of greens

·         Antioxidants

·         Probiotics

And all with less than 150 calories!

Vega One is dairy, gluten and soy free, and contains no added sugar, artificial flavors, colors or sweeteners. Use as a delicious, nutrient-supplementing addition to your favorite smoothie recipe, or simply shake with water, juice or a non-dairy beverage of your choice.

What’s New with Vega One?

“The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement.” –Brendan Brazier

Guided by the wisdom of these words and our continual mission to make Vega products even better through new ingredients and innovation, while remaining true to the principles on which Vega was built, Vega One is the result of extensive research on what passionate, informed, health-minded Vega fans wanted most in the next generation of Health Optimizer:

1. Superior nutritional profile
2. A one-scoop complete serving
3. Better digestibility
4. Improved taste and texture
5. Superior Nutritional Profile:

• 1000 ORAC Antioxidant Blend: we created an all-new super-fruit blend featuring maqui, acai, goji and other berries to give you a broader range of phytonutrients with over 2 times more antioxidants per scoop.
• Green Blend: we broadened the spectrum of greens by adding chlorophyll-rich, nutrient-dense superfoods such as kale, broccoli, spinach and alfalfa, along with chlorella, to boost the nutritional profile of Vega One with 20% more greens per scoop (for a total of three full servings of veggies per scoop!)

• Protein: we boosted our complete protein blend with SaviSeed protein, greatly increasing the tryptophan content (an essential amino acid). Vega One now boasts 15% more protein per scoop.
• Omega-3 (and Fiber!): we added white chia—renowned for its Omega-3 content—to bump our Omega-3s per scoop up by 20%. Chia is also one of the best-quality sources of fiber, rounding out the fiber profile of Vega One nicely.

A One-Scoop Complete Serving:

• We did surveys, focus groups and collected ongoing consumer feedback; an overwhelming majority of you told us you only took half a serving of Health Optimizer—one scoop—a day. We formulated Vega One’s single-scoop serving to maximize the nutritional density of your one-a-day scoop, so it delivers all the antioxidants, probiotics and digestive enzymes you got from the full two scoop serving of Health Optimizer, plus more protein, greens and Omega-3 than the old single scoop.

Better Digestibility:

• Higher Net-Gain Nutrition in Every Scoop: we doubled the amounts of digestive enzymes per scoop to help facilitate the breakdown of nutrients during digestion. This allows for better absorption which means higher net-gain nutrition—and we doubled the number of probiotics per scoop, too.

Improved Taste and Texture:

With all these changes, it not only resulted in a great nutritional boost, it tastes better too!

• Good-for-You Can Taste Good, Too: Beloved as it was for its nutritional profile, the number one complaint about Health Optimizer we heard loud and clear over the years was how (not so delicious) it tasted. Our research was resounding proof that the next generation of Health Optimizer needed a taste overhaul. Even some of our most loyal Vega fans admit to blending Health Optimizer into smoothies—just to make it palatable. Vega One offers premium nutrition AND great taste in the same scoop, but it can also be blended for those adventurous consumers
• Ingredients Impact Flavor: After tasting every ingredient in Health Optimizer individually, we discovered a few elements that stood out in all the worst (tasting) ways. We replaced some vitamins and minerals in our blend with more expensive, neutral-tasting sources.
• On-the-go Portability: Delivering exceptional nutritional value on-the-go has been one of the cornerstones of Vega formulation. Our research told us the taste of Health Optimizer was a barrier to the very portability it was designed for—Vega One is so delicious mixed with water alone, you’ll never have to sacrifice taste for travel again.

Comes in 5 flavors!! 

Chocolate, French Vanilla, Berry, Natural, Vanilla Chai.

Each Flavor can be ordered in different containers-large tub, small tub, single pack and box of 10 packets. Price ranging from $3.99-69.99 depending on size container ordered. 

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A couple months ago I did a Vega One Starter Kit review, you can view my previous post here:
http://crafts-n-fitness.blogspot.com/2013/10/vegaone-starter-kit-product-review.html

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