Eggcel - Nature's Ultimate Protein

It's been 7 days!

2012-01-07T21:40:00.000+13:00

Saturday night, we decided to go out to dinner at our local Thai restaurant, our favourite eats, and even though there was rice and noodles abound on the menu, we weren't even tempted. How freakin' awesome is that!

I uploaded our meals to the Clean Eating 2012 album, obviously not 100% clean, as Mister's had coconut milk in his dish, but so damn proud of ourselves.

I know that I'm in the zone, on a roll, motivated and jacked up to the max to get rid of this damn extra fat that I stupidly gained over the last 6 months, simply by ignoring my body's needs.

It ain't rocket science peeps!

Finally, a new pyramid!

2012-01-03T10:14:00.000+13:00

The fancy nutrition dept at Harvard have come up with a new food pyramid as well as a food plate (a heck of a lot easier on the eye).

It's not perfect, but it's waaay better than the old pyramid the western civilization have been using for donkeys years. Why we based our beliefs on what's healthy and not healthy on a food pyramid made in the US I do not know ... but anyway, here they are!

It's great that the new pyramid has daily exercise and weight control as the foundation. Brilliant work fancy Harvard nutrition folks! (would be interesting to see what they looked like ...)

The Healthy Eating Plate vs. USDA My Plate - to read about the differences, click here

Those who know me, and my way of clean eating, the whole grains portion would be a lot smaller, as well as fruits. Love the fact that water is recommended with every meal, NOT dairy (we honestly don't need milk everyday, no matter what the tv has been telling us all these years). I'd also add healthy fats, naturally occurring, e.g. avocado, salmon, nuts.

and just for fun, here's the original

6 - 11 servings of bread, cereal, rice and pasta! holy moly I would be an oversized elephant by now if that's what I ate every day!

Thanks to my beautiful friend, Ness (creator of Venus Network) who actually read the article in the first place. I saw it pop up on Facebook this morning, and decided to have a nosey! Gotta love social media! Ok, off to make me an Eggcel smoothie ... will I turn to my lazy option? 1 cup Eggcel, 1 tbsp milkshake flavouring ... yep, I think so!

Oh, and happy to report I'm down 900g since I started on the 1st -- I'm happy as a mofo!

who said blogging was easy?

2012-01-02T20:49:00.000+13:00

holy heck! I set this blog up in 2010, and haven't posted since... sooo bad!!

Happy New Year!! 2012 already! what the !? A great start to the year, with both Mr & Mrs Eggcel hitting the clean eating track running. Seriously ... it's not a good look with the creator of Eggcel (that's me) put on a hefty 10kg in 2011. Yep, 10kg. And it was easy. Missing breakfast, didn't have my daily Eggcel (shocking I know), no exercise whatsoever and just putting myself last before everything and everyone else.

Looked in the mirror a few days ago and thought enough is enough. I freakin' look pregnant. Haven't been this heavy ever -- except when I was preggy with lil miss Eggcel. So yeah, it's time to get real.

Started a visual record of our clean eating on our personal Facebook page. It's a public album, so you should see it ok. It's more for keeping myself accountable, as well as helping you out to keep you inspired on your own clean eating journey. It's quite a big thing for me to show you that I am not a ripped, lean mean machine. It's not really my goal to be that either, I just want to get my muscles back!

Have also created some new Team Eggcel tees, which you can buy here - and you can also win a design of your choice, really easy compeition. Check it out on our Eggcel Facebook page

you can win one of these! Entries close Wed 4th Jan, midnight

I was going to start blogging on a personal page, but realised, Eggcel is personal. I created it out of the need to be able to have protein that didn't come from a cow. It really was that simple. I don't eat red meat and my body doesn't handle milk very well, so whey protein was out. I'm not convinced on soy protein, and egg whites are just so damn easy to consume. We've pasteurised it so it's safe to drink, as blending up with your favourite smoothie ingredients is the best way to have it. So, some of my posts may seem like rambling. I think it's better that way. For me anyway! If I have to think too much about what I'm writing, I will just put it off. And this year is the year of action!

So do keep checking back, my intention is to regularly blog. I promise!

How did Eggcel® come about?

2010-10-08T22:03:00.001+13:00

If we backtrack 8 years ago, I had moved out of the corporate world, completely overworked, deflated and lacking of passion. Decided to travel to India, as you do … to “find myself”. I absolutely loved the chaos, the energy and the ‘just get on and do it’ attitude of the people. As they don’t have a welfare system, everyone had a job, one way or another. Even if it meant selling pens outside one of the many tourist stops. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. No feeling sorry for yourself, no sitting on your butt moaning about the government. It made me realise how lucky we have it here in our little piece of paradise.

I returned home feeling invigorated and wanting more. So I flew to the US, a good friend was joining me a week later. While there, I decided to get myself into shape. I was a fat vegetarian. Not majorly overweight, just more fat and very little muscle tone. JELLY BELLY central! My mate and I hooked ourselves up an awesome personal trainer and hit the gym three to four times a week. 30 minute weight sessions, 20 min cardio at that. My muscles ached. I loved it. Our trainer introduced us to a bodybuilding diet. High protein, low carb, no crap. Yikes, I had to start eating chicken and fish again. Fruit wasn’t even in our diet, unless it was a small banana straight after our workout. And scrambled egg whites for breakfast every day, with one piece of wholemeal toast. You should’ve heard me, what the heck is this?? I bitched and moaned for at least a month while on this new eating planWhat!? He wants me to eat 5 x a day!? I felt like I was being tortured. . I ate it though, exactly as told. One thing I am is a good student. I saw amazing changes to my body literally overnight. I was burning fat, and building muscle tone right before my very eyes. It was amazing. Right then I knew, food is fuel. That’s all there is to it. Weight bearing exercises are key to achieving a sculpted body, but wow, what the right foods can do, was mindblowing. I couldn’t stop checking myself out, seriously! I immediately knew what I wanted to become. A personal trainer! A kickass one, just like my PT. So I headed to Dallas, Texas and enrolled in the famed Cooper Institute’s Physical Fitness Specialist course. I was the only international student, and many of the students had never heard of New Zealand. Go figure.

When I returned home I got straight into personal training. I loved it. I looked into the supplement ranges we had in NZ at the time and apart from EAS there wasn’t much. So set up a business and signed up to become NZ’s distributor for well known sports supplements from the US.

The supplement industry here was just starting to build, so it was a hard slog to start with, but what I noticed was so many people looking for the quick fix, the special pill which would miraculously make them thin, or muscly, or both. After seeing hundreds of kiwis spend thousands of dollars on products that honestly don’t work if you’re not eating right and working out, I started researching. What is the best way to burn fat and build muscle? What food works the best?

Then it dawned on me. I was cracking and separating a tray of eggs a day to get the right amount of protein I needed from egg whites. It was messy, boring and in the end, all I could do was scramble the egg whites. I have no patience. So doing all this preparation was getting to me.

That is how Eggcel was born. Out of my frustration and because I wanted kiwis to be able to eat clean easily. To build muscle and to burn fat naturally. No chemicals, no lab created products. Just what mother nature has to offer us. Pasteurisation allowed me to offer Eggcel as a fantastic alternative to the chalky tasting protein shakes that NZ was being inundated with. Eureka! I felt like a mad scientist (without the white coat or the chemicals!)

Now, all I want is to share with those who are finding it hard to lose the weight, who don’t want to resort to dieting or chugging down protein powders and bars day after day, but just want to be able to burn the fat naturally.

Imagine making a delicious Eggcelicious Smoothie for breakfast knowing you’re giving your body the best start to the day.

That’s all there is to it. Of course you can make fancy recipes too with Eggcel if that’s your thing. But if you can blend up Eggcel with fruit or yoghurt, whatever you feel like adding, that’s all you have to do. It really is that easy.

Receiving feedback like I did yesterday is why I’m in this game. An Eggcel Yourself Transformation Challenger told me how easy it’s been for them. Having an Eggcelicious Smoothie for breakfast, doing their normal day to day stuff, going for walks when they can, even having a few pieces of chocolate. And still lost over 1 kg in a week.

I truly love what it does for you. I’m not here to sell egg white. I’m here to help as many people as I can be the best they can physically be. You deserve it.

ProForma CNI Bodybuilding Champs, Tauranga

2010-09-27T22:36:00.000+13:00

Well we don't sponsor bodybuilding events anymore as we found out very early on that a. they're not great sales wise as the crowd are just there to see their friends and family compete, and b. marketing bang for buck is terrible. The cost of sponsoring is really high. But we did sponsor this event because it was giving $$ to the Tauranga BCSS. So that in itself was a great reason to support this competition!

The best use of our time there was to talk to the interested, hand out flyers to everyone that came through the door, and to re-acquaint ourselves to members of the bodybuilding community, as it had been at least 3 years since we had been to a show.

We also met one of our Eggcellers that we hadn't met in person before. That was fantastic! Andrew from Sportsfuel / Supplement King Hamilton, go see him if you're in the area :-)

The guest poser for the evening was the infamous Justin Rys. What a physique! He blew the crowd away, and after talking with him after the show, saw a guy who was really passionate about life. Justin is contemplating leaving the bodybuilding stage for good, and putting his health first. That can't be a bad thing!

He took a bottle of Eggcel® back home to Wellywood, and already have fantastic feedback!

I am little bit lactose in tolerant and have substituted your

Eggcel for milk over the last day, getting

great results as in no phlegm or bloating or other things I usually

get with protein drinks :)

The Eggcel Yourself Transformation Challenge is here!

2010-05-24T11:08:00.000+12:00

I've been wanting to launch a Transformation Challenge for a looong time now, but the timing just didn't felt right. Thankfully the time is right! Personally our move to the beautiful Bay has invigorated us, and it has come across in the way we work our business. Have you noticed? Using social media to enable us to connect more with our Eggcel® fans, we want people to know that eating clean doesn't have to be about diets, fiddly recipes, bland food and strange ingredients. Clean Eating Made Easy. That's what we're all about. It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle! It's ok to have a piece of cake, or some chocolate, or whatever it is that you sometimes nibble on. This isn't prison. This is life. Yin and yang. You gotta have balance. Eggcel® gives you that balance, as you know that when you add Eggcel® to your daily eating plan, you're doing alot of good for your health.

But yeah, back to the Challenge! So with all this invigoration and balance, I was able to put head down and bum up and come up with the Eggcel Yourself Transformation Challenge! Anyone can enter (18yrs +) and the only requirement is that you have a minimum of one serving of Eggcel® Liquid per day for 12 weeks. That's it! It helps to exercise and eat clean at least 80% of the time, especially if you want to win! The winner receives $400 worth of Eggcel®. Woop woop!!! A transformed body (hot!!) and more! haha there's always, but wait! There's more! But we're just not telling you yet ....

The Challenge starts 01 June. So check it out, register, invite your friends to join you, and we'll see you on the other side, leaner, healthier and happier :)

Oscar Kightley makes his favourite Eggcel Smoothie

2010-01-22T00:37:00.001+13:00

We were fortunate enough to film Oscar making his favourite protein smoothie before his interview. He wanted to share it with you, so you can see how quick and easy it is to get your protein fix :)

Interview with Oscar Kightley

2010-01-21T22:45:00.000+13:00

Last Saturday we had the pleasure of interviewing Oscar Kightley, the brains and wit behind Sione's Wedding and Brotown, where he shared his thoughts about his own health and fitness goals for 2010.

Check out the interview here EGGCEL TV