I would like to welcome you to Healthy Abundant Living. This site is my attempt to get the word out that living healthy is not some grueling task that must be endured to have a higher quality of life. Rather it is a choice that enables us to have richer more fulfilling lives. On this site you will find many options to improve your quality of life. I am not talking just about physical appearance and performance but also about two parts of the human body that are often overlooked. These are the mind and spirit or thoughts and feelings, if you will. Frankly I think your thoughts and feelings have more to do with your physical attributes than most people realize and there is much scientific study to back that claim up. The goal of this site is to show you how to resolve the challenges that you face from the inside out. Whether it is the thoughts you think, the feelings you have or how much you weigh, we will give you the tools to achieve your goals in a positive way. Thanks for stopping by and we hope your visit here is a productive one. The Healthy Abundant Living Team

Self Evaluation and a Healthy Lifestyle

May05
2012 Leave a Comment Written by ghoepfl

The Man In The Mirror

I am referring to man as a species not as a sex as the practice I am going to talk about applies equally to both sexes. The process I want to talk about (not really…lol) is self-evaluation. I don’t think that there is anything that has more value in our quest for a healthy lifestyle than the inward look. The problem of course is that many times we might not like what we are seeing as is the case with me right now.

I was forced to once again begin this practice when something occurred in my life the other day that outright shocked me. It came in the form of someone that I considered a very important friend and more that exposed, once and for all, who they really are. It was not pretty at all. The thing is that they were always this way and I was involved with them so where does that leave me? You see so often we are so busy pointing the finger at someone else that we don’t stop to consider that we attract into our lives the thing we think about most, the thing we are. Now the good news is that I removed this person and others like them out of my life but not before an incredible amount of damage had been done. It would be very easy for me to blame them but the real truth is I invited it in to my life in the first place. I would also love to say that this behavior and thinking was isolated to my personal life but I have also experienced it in my business affairs. It is also not just one person or thing and the only common denominator is me! Wow, that sucks.

We can only kid ourselves for so long and then life comes along and if we are not being honest it slams it right in our faces. It is at this point that I have a choice. Do I continue to blame and point the finger at other’s or do I start looking at the root cause…ie: me? I have this bad habit of not seeing other’s for how they are but rather what they have the potential to become and I like seeing other people that way. I won’t change that about myself. Where I do need to change is how I see myself. You see I do exactly the same thing with me. I believe when it is self directed it is called self delusion.

Please don’t get me wrong, I am not into self emasculation or a masochist. I just feel and believe it is critically important to my goal to be physically, emotionally and spiritually healthy to be honest about where I am and in the recent past that was not a very good place. This evaluation does not come directly from me but from the types of people I was surrounding myself with.

The Journey Begins Again

So you might be wondering what was so traumatic that caused this abrupt reassessment of myself. Fair enough. I got an email the other day from someone and they told me I was to take care of their pet. I worded it that way on purpose. I received marching orders not a request for a favor. When I said no, I was subject to various insults and manipulation culminating in them telling me I either take the pet or it goes in the dump! Huh? Again the good news is I did not fall for it. The bad news is that this was a person I had been very close to at a point in my recent past and they would throw a defenseless animal in the dump, just because it was now inconvenient? What type of person must I have been to associate with that? See how this goes, I could stop at pointing the finger but one thing I have learned is that everytime I am pointing the finger at someone or something else there are three fingers pointing right back at me. Boy, wasn’t that the truth this time.

To make this relationship work I had set aside everything I want to stand for and never once walked away when I should have been running for the exit. Now I can say all day long that I was trying to help and be supportive and I was but at what cost to me? This, in my opinion, is the critical thinking necessary to escape from my flawed perceptions. I literally almost lost everything before I woke from my slumber. I have spent the last several months rebuilding my core group of people in my life and rebuilding my business. As I said this was not a one off thing, it had become a pattern and it also effected my business. To be truthful there is still much work to do but at least now there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it is no longer a train headed in my direction to wipe me out.

I can also say that based on the types of people I am attracting into my life now that the behaviors that were effecting me so negatively are no longer present. The other good news is that I saw the pattern sooner than I ever had in the past. I think that may be the trick. I don’t know if we ever “escape” ourselves. I think that may be a bit unrealistic. For me the best I am hoping for is to identify the behavioral pattern quicker and quicker over time so the fallout from my bad choices becomes less and less. Eventually I might not even get into these situations at all.

I Can’t See Me Clearly

This is the crux of my problem. I just don’t see myself as clearly as I would like to, at least not in the thick of it. That is why, for me, it is very important to judge myself based on the people I am associating with. I know I have said this before but it is just much easier to see what is wrong with me in other people…lol. So when I see something that is F#$@ed Up in someone else I can identify it. The next step, if they are a significant person in my life is to look at what I am doing to attract that behavior. The simple fact is that if the people that are in my life are doing mean and hurtful things it is not because I am the nicest person in the world. I know this for the truth as I was just hanging out with someone and realized that they were not being very nice and this was not a one time thing but a pattern. My solution this time was not to stick around but to get away from that person ASAP. See healthy people don’t hang out with unhealthy people.

So the moral of the story is this. If you find yourself involved with unhealthy people, their disease is not your problem and not yours to solve. Your problem is you and if you don’t address that problem nothing will change. The names and faces will change but the pain will continue on. That has been my experience. I encourage you that the next time you are eager to point the finger at someone else and what they are doing wrong, take some time and ask yourself if they are that screwed up why are you having a relationship with them? The answer might surprise you.

Till Next Time,

Glenn Hoepfl – Healthy Lifestyle – Healthy Abundant Living

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A Death In Harlem – Twenty Years Old And His Excuses Killed Him

Apr16
2012 Leave a Comment Written by ghoepfl

Twenty Years Old And Dead?

A few months ago I moved up to East Harlem and although I did not think I was going to like it here I was wrong. I have a really cool roommate. I met an incredible young lady recently. My apartment is a beautiful flat with incredibly high ceilings and transportation is right outside my front door. What could be wrong with that? In a word, for me, nothing. That is until the other day when someone got shot in the head. To be honest I don’t quite get it. Not because I have never been without but because the solution that this young man came up with killed him and it just was so unnecessary.

For pain pills and a little cash this kid traded his life. Call me insensitive but, was it worth it? This message will not do him any good, he’s dead but I just felt like I had to say something. It is your life. It must have more value to you than a few pills and some cash. Some people will say that it is because of the neighborhood he grew up in…hogwash…or the way he was raised…double hogwash. The answer is so much simpler than that. He was lazy and felt the world owed him something. It is the same feeling of entitlement that you see in the “gentile” society. The difference is that this is the Spanish Harlem version. Someone done him wrong and so he had the right to take whatever he wanted. He is now dead. I guess he was wrong in his assertion. At least the police thought so. They just did not understand nor care of his plight when he pulled out a gun and started shooting, they just shot back. Personally I hope there is at least one person that he knew that will do the math and realize it is time to change their thinking before they wind up dead too. Twenty years old…he had his whole life in front of him and did not even care. That is how bad the people that spew this entitlement crap ruined this person’s life.

Granted he had a choice to decide whether that thinking and attitude was bunk but when most are validating it through their words and actions it is hard to go against the tide. I see it all the time in my business and these people are not in the “ghetto”. Here is a prime example, I talked to a guy the other day, this guy happened to be the person that invited me into one of my businesses I happen to be making a ton of money with. I was calling him to show him something that I had come upon that was doing very well for me. He proceeded to tell me how horribly he had done with the said opportunity and frankly I was shocked. How could he have failed so miserably and I had done so well. I mean this was a stupid simple business that literally took no work to make money and he failed. What happened? So I asked and that was when the excuses started. In my experience people that have a sense that the world owes them something have another thing in common, they always have excuses ready for why they failed. Our conversation did not go so well as I made the mistake of asking him if he did what was suggested or did he do what he wanted to do? It was at this point that I wished the examples in the tamer world were as stark as the example of failure I saw a block from my front door. Perhaps if more people had to pay the price for their excuses there would be less of them, excuses and people who make them.

I Know The Bleeding Hearts Are All In A Tizzy About Now

Too bad. It is the truth. The excuses we make as a society have turned most of us into a bunch of whining victims that everything happens too and it is always somebody or something else’s fault. We see it in everything from poverty to global warming. There is always an excuse waiting for why it won’t or why it didn’t work. If we spent more time taking action and less time making excuses for why we can’t I am certain much more good than bad would be accomplished on this planet. I mean seriously does anybody really believe that we have enough technology to blow up our planet and cannot figure out a way to power our machines on anything other than fossil fuels. Two words, lazy and irresponsible. Of course add in a dash of self serving entitlement couched as, we shouldn’t have to change. It is just absurd. We have to change. You wanna know where the twenty year old kid learned what he learned…everywhere. It was all around him. If the people with all the money don’t have to give anything then why should I?

The Responsibility Of Position And Money

Oh, I get it. You are like Allen Iverson. I remember reading a quote about something he said several years ago along the lines of “He should not have to be a role model”. He wanted the fame and fortune that came from playing basketball, he just didn’t want any of the responsibility that came with it. Here’s a news flash, if you have money and position you are going to be a role model whether you want to be or not. You can either be a good one or a poor one. There is also another choice, give all your money and position and prestige away then you won’t have to worry about it if you are a piece of Sh%^ as you will have no influence in the public arena. Want another example of the sheer irresponsibility of our leader’s. How about the preacher who decried the evil’s of homosexuality only to be found dead “Hogtied with a Phallic artifact…lol…stuck…well you can guess. I am quite certain he had all kinds of excuses ready too.

And just one more. This one is one of my personal favorites. Did you know that in New York City you can’t smoke in public parks, a foot outside the public park and your fine…lol. Hey Mayor Bloomberg if you are that worried about the public’s health how come there is not universal health care in NYC. Hmmm? And of course all the people that want to pretend they are making a difference rally behind this type of policy as if it is really going to change something, anything. Now I am sure they have their arguments and they probably go something like…well we are trying to keep the city clean or we don’t want people to get cancer from breathing second hand smoke. Okay…I have no issue with either argument but while your at it how about providing every resident in NYC with a recycle bin so they can really help keep the city cleaner and while you are worrying about everyone’s health, how about outlawing fat people in public. oh there now I’ve done it…I have now pissed off the obese crowd too. But seriously, why not charge a prohibitive tax on fattening foods just like you do for cigarettes. It would seem to make sense since obesity kills way more people than smoking and second hand smoke combined.

You may ask what all this has to do with a kid getting shot in the head in Harlem. Truthfully part of it is just a rant but has it ever occurred to anyone that the reason this kid and so many others have no hope is because they see the hypocrisy of those that came before them and know that if nothing changes they have nothing to live for anyway? Start telling yourselves the truth. Over 1/3 of our society is taking one sort of pill or another just to get out of bed in the morning, 10% of our society is known alcoholics. That is close to 50% of our population that is constantly drugged up by either self medicating or by the drug companies. Does that really seem normal to you? Something is seriously wrong. This young man is just a glaring example of that. The problem is that the real cause will be overshadowed by the excuses made for him and our society as a whole. And the band played on…

It’s not too late to change for any of us. We just have to be willing to make some real sacrifices. Instead of spending 100+ billion a year trying to get what we want overseas, wouldn’t that money be better spent on providing solutions right here at home? Please don’t give me all the rhetoric about fighting for freedom and democracy. If those people wanted freedom and democracy they would fight for it themselves just like we did 200+ years ago. Has it occurred to anyone that they like the way things are and that is why nothing changes? It’s not about democracy and freedom. It is about oil (money). That’s the only thing that matters. Oh and by the way, has it occurred to anyone that maybe the Muslim world would not hate the United States so much if everytime a bomb dropped on their head it did not say “Made In The USA”? This is the message we sent to that twenty year old. He interpreted it literally and lost his life as result of it. If only the death that we experience were so sudden but instead we slowly kill ourselves with our excuses for why we do what we do.

I don’t believe there is much time left to effect real change. Not because Jesus is coming back, heck by the time he gets here we will have killed each other anyway. Don’t misunderstand me please. I am not saying we need to live to any particular standard. What I am saying is that we really need to start getting honest about why we do what we do and what we do. If we start telling the truth then maybe some of the choices we make won’t look so appealing.

Glenn Hoepfl – Healthy Abundant Living – Healthy Lifestyle

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My Reading List – Healthy Lifestyle

Many people have asked my over the years where I learned what I know about living a Healthy Lifestyle. First let me state that these are not original ideas I came up with. I am not some visionary or deep thinker or anything of the sort. What I am is a man that was driven by desperation to make some major changes in how I was living my life. Suffice it to say I was not living anything even close to a Healthy Lifestyle. I did not wake up one day and say…wow…today I am going to start living a healthy lifestyle. In all reality I was just starting to get sober, my life was a train wreck, I was unemployable and although not drinking or doing drugs anymore for all intents and purposes I was insane. Mind you not the “voices telling me to do weird and crazy stuff” insane but a much more subtle kind of insanity where one plus one never seemed to equal two. Some of you may be able to relate to what I am saying completely, some of you may decide that I am still nuts, the choice is of course yours.

Having said that there are some teachings and readings that have and continue to change my life. All of them have been pivotal to achieving my goal of living a Healthy Lifestyle. This is not a one and done thing, learning to live a healthy lifestyle will be a lifelong process. Below is a current list of books and tutorial’s I currently reference to help me in my journey. As with your decision to consider my council wise or not is your choice, so is whether you take this list and do something with it. As with any teaching’s you can derive the truth from these or you can twist them up in ways they were never meant to be used. Again the choice is yours. However a word of warning or caution. If you decide to persue this path, the truth will sooner or later expose itself to you and perhaps even more daunting is it will expose you. It will also heal you. If your experience is anything like mine though the healing process can be very painful. I am not trying to scare you just make you aware that this journey as worthy and amazing as it is, is not without struggle or pain.

The Beginning Of The Journey – Healthy Lifestyle

So I am about a year and a half sober and was dating this absolutely beautiful girl and thought I was all that. It turned out that as beautiful as she was, she was just as crazy and maybe a little more than I was. A very sick person indeed and two sickies do not make a wellie…lol. We systematically destroyed any semblance of health that came within ten feet of us and the drama and chaos was just amazing. Needless to say the relationship did not last and at the end I was such a wreck emotionally that I was crushed that this insanity was coming to an end. When I say I was a basket case, I meant it. During this time a I had heard about a book called “The Four Agreements”.

Being stubborn and frankly not ready to let go of my sickness yet I ignored the initial recommendations to read this book. Fortunately for me my “Higher Power” is more persistent than I am and apparently was very interested in showing me how to live a Healthy Lifestyle. So shortly after the first recommendation came a second and then a third. Finally after never having heard of this book in my previous 38years and then having had it suggested to me three times in thirty days I finally caved and bought it.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

This book has some very basic premises that many people actually use. The problem is that they use them in a warped way and so get an exact opposite result of the desired experience. This book was my first guide and I have actually read it several times. It is a short read, meaning you can literally read this book in a day if you choose. I would encourage you to read it several times and then use it as a reference and reminder throughout your journey to a Healthy Lifestyle. This is where it all started for me but by no means was and is it the only resource I have. There are also a few companion books that I highly recommend, all have essentially the same teaching but each is from its own perspective.

Other Recommended Readings

The Four Agreements Companion Book : Using the Four Agreements to Master the Dream of Your Life
The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace
The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery
The Mastery of Love (A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship) (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

Controversy And A Healthy Lifestyle

This next book that I highly recommend is not without its controversy but, in my opinion, is required reading to help break the bonds and start moving towards a Healthy lifestyle. It is titled “Conversations With God”. It is the story of a man who literally had a conversation with God and wrote it down. He started to ask questions and God answered. I highly encourage that before you brush it all off as hogwash, you read it! You will be amazed and at the very least you will have a new look at the age old question of who and what is God. The critics of this book have called it heresy. Quite the contrary though, this book does not deny the existence of God or of the Trinity, if that is your believe, so have no fear. What it does do is transcend the basic belief that many hold and show how we can see and understand God and Jesus in a whole new way if we so choose. Again, my experience, but I believe there is a solid basis for my perception of what I read and I believe that if the God of Christianity and the whole belief system is that strong then it can afford to be tested and questioned and should come through just fine. So if you are afraid to read this book, it will not be because you find it heretic, it will be because your faith when challenged can not stand up to it. If that is the case then perhaps it would be wise to reevaluate what you believe in.
Conversations With God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1)
This book also has a few companion books. The first two are continuations of the first book and the third is a study and group guide.
Conversations With God (Bk.2)
Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 3
The Conversations with God Companion: The Essential Tool for Individual and Group Study

A Spiritual Atheist? – Healthy Lifestyle

These next two readings have been with me since I was about twenty years old and actually planted the seeds that took root almost twenty years later. The books I am referring to are “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead”. Both were written by Ayn Rand, arguably and again my opinion, one of the greatest literary minds in the last 100 years and no doubt one of the most prescient. Many including the foundation that covet’s her name argue that she was an Atheist. I personally think she was one of the most spiritual people that ever lived. The thing is she did not look very spiritual to most onlooker’s, she was a hard drinking, cigarette smoking person and so many saw this and decided she must not be a spiritual person. Just like the world to judge the outside cover instead of looking a little deeper. It is such a convenient cop out. The simple truth is that no one could have written the things she wrote about without a very clear sense of what true spirituality is. I encourage you to read these books for yourself and make your own decision.
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead

The Short List To A Healthy Lifestyle

This is the short list of readings that I use and recommend if you are serious about learning to live a Healthy Lifestyle. This is by no means a complete list nor are they, I’m sure, the only books that will help you achieve your goal of living a Healthy Lifestyle. These are simply a few of the books I have read and used and continue to return to when I need guidance. As I mentioned this is a life long journey and if you want to get to where you are going you are going to need direction. These are the main books I use to get my direction for living a Healthy Lifestyle. I hope you find as much value in them as I have. I know if you read them you will discover your path to a Healthy Lifestyle.

In my next post I am going to talk about The Law of Attraction and how these books layed the groundwork for The Law of Attraction to work in my life. A word of encouragement, once the foundation is firm, activating The Law of Attraction in your Healthy Lifestyle is very easy as they go hand in hand as you will see.

Till Next Time,

Glenn Hoepfl – Healthy Abundant Living – Healthy Lifestyle

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If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes! – Healthy Lifestyle

Apr01
2012 Leave a Comment Written by ghoepfl

We All Do It – Healthy Lifestyle

To one degree or another we are all guilty of it and it is not condusive to living a Healthy Lifestyle. I am talking about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. The problem is that we always change it just a bit so that we can now say we are doing something different and so the result should be different. This is obviously something we need to get away from if we are to get mentally and emotionally healthy and live a healthy lifestyle. Typically though we don’t really see it until we are well on our way down the same road and then things like pride and ego cause us to not reverse direction. We don’t want to look bad! Nevermind that we are such a sad sight to the people that are paying attention, it is our ego’s that we are protecting and it only matters what it looks like to us. Believe me when I say I am not speaking from my mountaintop, I know this behavior from my own personal experience and it becomes very demoralizing over time. You see no matter how much we kid ourselves we know exactly what we are doing and “if nothing changes – nothing changes” and we know that. So if you are telling yourself you are doing something different and yet you are still not happy…question your premise.

An Attitude Of Gratitude – Healthy Lifestyle

This is just my opinion but having said that, I think one of the key thought changes that takes place when we are really moving towards a Healthy Lifestyle is that we develop an “Attitude of Gratitude”. I know it sounds hoaky but it is the truth. We become grateful for exactly where we are, no matter how “things” are going at a particular moment. Much of what I am saying I have had to reverse engineer and see it a hundred times before the light came on. I have learned it is hard to be grateful when, consciously or not, I know that my life is like the movie Groundhog Day. This is also key, whether I am honest about my situation or not, the essence of me, my core, my soul or whatever you want to call it knows the truth whether I admit it or not.

Much of what I have learned about this has come from watching other people. When I watch other people I don’t compare, I identify. What I mean by the is I don’t focus on what is different in our personal experience, I focus on what is the same. I have found it is much easier to see what is really going on in other people than it is to see in myself. Warning…if I stop their nothing changes. I need to take this new found knowledge and apply it to my life. In other words, if I don’t apply what I am seeing in others to my own life I learn nothing. I can kid myself all day long but until I fix what is going on on the inside, nothing changes on the outside. Living a healthy lifestyle is an inside job. The level of health we experience physically is in direct proportion to how we manifest emotionally and mentally.

Have you ever experienced the elation of going in a new direction only to find yourself just as unhappy as you were before when you get there?

I know I have. I finally realized after doing this many times and seeing others do the same thing that when I got honest, nothing had really changed. The choices I needed to make to effect real change were just too tough or so it seemed. Finally for me it just got too painful not to change. What I am saying is that it was through no virtue of my own that I started to wake up. I just got tired of the constant pain and disappointment.

I was reminded of this just yesterday. I ran into a good friend and you would have never know how unhappy they are unless you were paying attention. They had their “game face” on. I am a master at that. But then something happened, I am not even sure what it was but I saw a look of such anger, jealousy, fear, sadness, regret…you name it and it was there and none of it positive and all of a sudden I knew the truth. It was a brief instant but it was there and I saw it and it was so sad. The thing is that there is no way to achieve a goal, no matter how much you want it, if you are carrying all this negative energy around. That was also apparent. I have also learned that the last thing I want to do when I am in this space is reach out to the very people I know can help me. So I stay stuck. My ego won’t let me.

I need to get grateful and stop trying to please others to find my self worth. This is a sure sign that I have low self-esteem. If I don’t value myself fully there is no way to live a healthy lifestyle as I don’t think I deserve it. Well I do and so do you. Always did deserve it, I just did not want to do the work to achieve it. Being grateful is not easy when things aren’t going the way I think they should…lol. But that is exactly when I need to understand that if things aren’t going the way I want it is most likely because I am not taking the steps to get there. It is not fate, or karma, or destiny or any of the other hogwash we tell ourselves. It is simply because many of us self-sabotage and cause our own personal hell.

How To Make The Change – Healthy Lifestyle

Now I could blame my parents or hundreds of other influences that taught me to think this way but it is all nonsense and it does not matter anyway. The other influences are not living in my personal purgatory, I am! They have their own story. So the question becomes how do I get out of this mess. The answer is actually quite simple. Take responsibility! This sounds really easy but I assure you it is not. I mean take complete responsibility for every choice you have ever made, all the sell outs, all the fear, all the self loathing…all of it. Then throw it out. I have learned I am no better or worse than I think I am. So if I want to start getting good results I had better start believing I deserve it. I may seem counter-intuitive to take responsibility for being a failure at life and that this will bring me success but that is the way it is. Until I get completely honest about who I am and more importantly stay honest then that dishonesty owns me. My un-owned self has power over what I manifest in my life. If the underlying thought is I don’t deserve this then no matter how hard I try I will not get it.

A word of encouragement, don’t quit! Keep trying. Honesty, especially with one’s self is no easy feat. Many will try to keep you right where you are. Misery loves company. Trust your heart it will never steer you wrong. That is not to say that if you trust your heart you will never get hurt. I only mean that if you trust your heart you will know that no matter how much a thing hurts you still did what was right and honorable and so your life will manifest that. Take responsibility and learn to live a Healthy Lifestyle.

Oops…almost forgot. This is not “magic pixie dust” stuff, it takes time and effort. You probably won’t see results tomorrow if you start today. I suggest you take a look 3-6 months from now and see if you are on the road to health and a healthy lifestyle.

Take Care,

ghoepfl – The Healthy Abundant Living Team – Healthy Lifestyle

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Healthy Living
Self Evaluation and a Healthy Lifestyle
A Death In Harlem – Twenty Years Old And His Excuses Killed Him
Fast Weight Loss

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It Was An Accident – Healthy Lifestyle

Mar29
2012 Leave a Comment Written by ghoepfl

High Protein And A Healthy Lifestyle

My whole life people have been telling me that someday I was going to start gaining weight and they also said I was not living a Healthy Lifestyle. The reasons they said these things was because when I was younger and even still I ate a lot of sweets. If it has sugar in it you can be assured I will be like a moth to a flame…lol. Chocolate, doughnuts, ice cream…you name it and it is a part of my diet. What they did not realize, and neither did I, was that in every other respect I was living a very Healthy Lifestyle. Plus, with all the protein that was in my diet my body was literally a “fat burning machine”.

For me it was not about living a Healthy Lifestyle I just come from a family of meat eater’s. Little did I know that this was going to be my saving grace. And to hear the experts tell it for years, my arteries were going to be clogged by the time I was thirty-five. Now some 40 plus years later the general belief is almost exactly the opposite of what it was in the past. As a matter of fact if you want to really lose a lot of weight almost all experts agree that you must take in a lot of protein as it speeds up your metabolism.

It’s Not A Diet – It’s A Healthy Lifestyle

The other day we talked about cleansing your body and getting ready for your diet. You will be happy to know that the diet I am suggesting is not really a diet at all but rather a Healthy Lifestyle change. I am not even saying you have to eat less, what I am saying is that you have to eat different. Want to lose weight without dieting? The answer is simple, start eating a ton of protein and stay away from foods that are high in carbs. Wow, I just took 500 pages of hyperbole and summed it up in one sentence. Don’t get me wrong, I am only kidding. I think the real reason books are published on this stuff is that because for many people saying high protein – low carbs, is just not enough. The fact is that many people do not know the foods that fall into each category.

Metabolic Cooking And A Healthy Lifestyle

That is what I really like about The Metabolic Cooking Cookbook. Although it goes into great detail about how to live a Healthy Lifestyle and high protein diets to speed up your metabolism, really as the title states it is a cookbook. I can tell you this, just take a peak at the recipes in this cookbook and you will find two things out right away.

Number 1 – You will be hard pressed to believe you are on a diet.
Number 2 – These recipe’s will actually enhance your Healthy Lifestyle

If you want to have a sneak peak at a few of the recipe’s head over to our page titled, Metabolic Cooking Cookbook, you will find some recipe’s there straight out of the cookbook. Please understand I am not trying to sell you on this idea. I just know this works. I am a 47 year old man, I am 5″10 inches tall, my total body fat is roughly 7% and I weigh 159 pounds. I am also in the best shape of my life and living a very Healthy Lifestyle. Now I am not trying to tell you I derived all this benefit from one cookbook. I also exercise everyday for about an hour and a half and on someday’s I crank that up to three hours. What I am saying is this. Were it not for the Healthy Lifestyle I lead. There would be no way I could maintain the high level of activity that I do and having a very high protein diet is a big key to that. Not only will it help you lose weight but your energy level will go through the roof.

The reason I mention The Metabolic Cooking Cookbook is if you need help deciding what foods and in what amounts. This cookbook can be a very effective tool for you in you goal to lose weight and live a Healthy Lifestyle.

To Your Success,

GHoepfl – The Healthy Abundant Living Team – Healthy Lifestyle

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Detox Then Diet – Healthy Lifestyle And Weight Loss

Mar25
2012 Leave a Comment Written by ghoepfl

Start Fresh – Healthy Lifestyle – Weight Loss

I couldn’t decide at first what I wanted to write about today and then it hit me, what we will discuss is integral to a healthy lifestyle and weight loss. The premise of this post is not to put the cart before the horse, so although I wanted to write about dieting and what has worked for me, I decided to write instead about what I did first before I started a diet. Seems that many are guilty of the same thing, putting the cart before the horse that is. What I am talking about is the idea that we go on these fantastic diets but we have not prepared our bodies properly first to gain the maximum reward for our efforts. That is what I want to talk about today.

I am not sure how many of you have heard about the 5 P’s but for those of you that have, please indulge me as it is worth mentioning. The five P’s stand for, Proper preparation prevents pitiful performance and nothing could be more true than when it comes to preparing to lose weight. If you are going to put the effort into reshaping your physical appearance, doesn’t it make sense to get your body ready for this change first? I mean imagine yourself getting ready to go on a long walk or run and not stretching out your muscles first let alone being in the proper shape for the long walk or run in the first place. You would most likely wake the next morning and feel like you got hit by a truck. Yet when we start a diet that is usually exactly what we do. I propose that if you are going to have an effective diet and really lose weight then it is vitally important to lay the ground work. If your experience is anything like mine then you will find that the results you get from preparing properly will be exceedingly greater than had you just started the diet and not “warmed up”.

Get Your House In Order And Then Decide What To Throw Out – Healthy Lifestyle And Weight Loss

So what I am driving at is prior to starting your diet, proceed with a quality detox program and Colon Cleanse. Simply put your body will work much more efficiently if it is cleansed of all the toxic buildup from years of neglect. As a result you will find that your efforts to lose weight are enhanced as your body is much more receptive to the changes you are implementing.

I Ate 1200 Calories A Day And Did Not Lose Weight – Healthy Lifestyle And Weight Loss

If I could have a dollar for everytime I have heard this from someone trying to lose weight I would be a very rich man indeed. The reason this happens is because until our bodies are cleaned out of all the toxins it will not perform very efficiently. The human body is actually quite amazing when you think of it. We ingest all this stuff into our bodies, much of it involuntarily, and yet somehow we still survive and in most cases live a good 75-80 years. But the reality is this, the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink, all of it is filled with varying amounts of toxins that slowly poison our bodies. We really have no idea how polluted our systems are until we start a detox program.

This is very important to note. Do not be surprised if when you start a detox and colon cleanse that you actually feel like you are getting sick and in some cases this feeling can be very extreme. You are not getting sick, you are actually getting healthy. I liken it to the heroin addict that is getting off the drug, they think they are going to die, in fact they are saving their life. I just doesn’t feel like it at first. Now I am not saying you are going to experience the same reactions that a recovering addict would but don’t be alarmed or surprised when and if you begin to feel like this “detox thing” is having the opposite effect than what it was supposed to. It is normal. The amazing thing about the human body is its adaptability. As our bodies become more and more polluted our bodies make more and more adjustments to compensate. All of this has to be unwound before you will make any real progress with losing weight and, frankly, living a healthy Lifestyle. I can tell you this though, once you are over the hump (usually a week to ten days) you will feel amazing.

The Benefits And Rewards Of A Proper Detox And Colon Cleanse – Healthy Lifestyle And Weight Loss

Did you know that 60% + of all disease is caused by inflammation in one form or another? Guess what is a major cause of inflammation in our bodies? Yep…toxins! Most of these toxins are stored in the colon. Once you clean that out the feeling you get is amazing and it is not just physical. The mental rewards are just as pronounced as the feeling of physical well being. How can that be you ask? Well it is actually quite simple. Every emotional and mental response we have to a thing is a chemical reaction. If our chemicals are all out of balance then we will have inconsistent emotional and mental feelings of well being. Once our bodies are physically cleaned out and our bodies regulate, the chemical reactions in our bodies also balance out and so as a result not only are we physically better off but our emotional and mental well being has also been improved. Those two areas are often forgotten in the goal to lose weight. I propose that they are just as, if not more, important to our success than how much food we eat or exercise we get. If emotionally and mentally we are in a good place our goal becomes so much easier to achieve. In addition to all these benefits when our bodies are functioning optimally we find that we naturally eat less because we can now digest the nutrients in the food we eat we do not need to eat as much.

I don’t want to over complicate this too much but essentially when our bodies are clogged up with toxins we are unable to process the nutrients efficiently in the food we eat and so our brains tell us we are hungry. The problem is that we do not discern this message as we are hungry for nutrients, we discern it as I need food! And of course we typically don’t reach for an apple if a doughnut is present. We want sugar, at least that is how I work…lol. So my advice is that before you actually start a diet remember the 5 P’s and begin with a good Colon Cleanse first. Your chances of achieving your weight loss goals increase dramatically and more important than this is your ability to keep the weight off after the diet is done also increase dramatically. Another often overlooked benefit of a good cleanse is the fact that just doing that in most cases will begin the weight loss process.

Please stay tuned, in my next post I am going to tell you about a diet that really is not a diet at all and you will lose weight. Period! I encourage you in the meantime to begin to clean out your body so that when you begin to lose weight your results will be awesome.

To Your Health,
Glenn Hoepfl – The Healthy Abundant Living Team – Healthy Lifestyle – Weight Loss

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Healthy Lifestyle – It’s More Than How You Look

Jul20
2011 Leave a Comment Written by ghoepfl

You Are What You Eat – Healthy Lifestyle

This post is probably going to rub many people the wrong way but I am going to discuss what it really takes to live a healthy lifestyle. Hint: Living a healthy lifestyle has less to do with what you put in your mouth and much more to do with what you feed your head and heart. Personally I find it very self deceptive to tell yourself that you are living a healthy lifestyle when you have to take a pill everyday just to not get depressed.

I will say it out loud. Maybe you would not be depressed if you had not spent your entire life compromising everything you believed in. It started so long ago you probably don’t even remember the first time you did it. Now you just call it dealing with reality or just being realistic. Or you put in a half effort because you thought you could get away with it and you did, as far as others were concerned, but you knew the truth and it sucked your heart dry a little bit at a time. How can you possibly live a healthy lifestyle when at every turn of the road you are compromising your integrity and making excuses for it.

Is Your Conscience Involved In Your Healthy Lifestyle?

Your probably thinking…why this arrogant such and such. Really? I find nothing more arrogant than to pretend that everything is okay and meanwhile just to get through a day you have to medicate. Has it ever occurred to ask yourself the question, honestly, why am I depressed? I can tell you this, until you ask yourself this question and answer honestly you will never be able to live a healthy lifestyle no matter your waist size or your blood pressure. Living a healthy lifestyle means living with integrity and not selling your self-esteem to the highest bidder. Yet that is exactly what so many people do. What is sadly humorous about this is that if you asked them they would tell you that everything is fine. Or worse they would do what is so common these days and either flat out lie about their circumstances or blame someone else for their lot in life. Call me crazy but that is not my idea of a healthy lifestyle no matter how many miles I can log on the tread mill.

Stop Deluding Yourself And You Are On Your Way To A Healthy Lifestyle

I think you will find that most of your issues will disappear, including your depression, if you just start being honest with yourself. This is a truth the doctors and the pharma companies do not want you to know. They have literally billions of dollars riding on the idea that you will stay sick. To truly begin to live a healthy lifestyle you must begin to see the truth. Not someone else’s truth but your truth. Here’s the thing, although you may not believe it your truth has value just by the nature that it is yours and it is unique. Stop discarding the things you dream of doing because they do not fit the mold of what somebody decided was not “Normal”. Stop defining your morality according to how many people you sleep with and start defining it by how many honest relationships you have. Stop worrying about the number and start considering the quality. I think you will find yourself, defacto, living a healthy lifestyle.

This all sounds very easy. I assure you it is not. You will not be very popular anymore. You will have to accept the fact that most people do not really want to live a healthy lifestyle once they see what it costs. The thing is they are only looking at the surface and after all there is always a pill I can take so that I do not feel what my heart feels. Please keep this in mind, just because you do not see it does not mean it is not happening and just because you will not acknowledge the truth does not make the truth any less powerful.

If, as a society, we do not wake up and start dealing with the truth we will cease to exist as a society. We are already seeing the start of it beginning to come unraveled. Please before it is too late, wake up and make a decision that you will no longer be a willing participant in your deception. Do not worry about what anyone else is doing just change yourself. At least then you will have the integrity to know that you were no longer a part of the problem and with that your depression and anxiety will no longer plague you.

Trust me, I know, I used to live my life exactly as you do now. Your health issues are your body trying to tell you what you refuse to see. Embrace a healthy lifestyle and let it start with your heart and mind. Your body is only the physical part of a healthy lifestyle.

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Healthy Lifestyle – Are We Turning Our Kids Into Victims?

Jul30
2011 Leave a Comment Written by ghoepfl

Zero Tolerance And A Healthy Lifestyle

This question recently hit me smack in the face and I started to ask myself, is what we are teaching our children really pointing them in the direction of a Healthy Lifestyle? There is so much I want to address in this post that my concern is it will turn into a short novel. First I will explain what happened that caused me to bring this question to the fore and then I will talk about some of the conclusions and assumptions I have made. Please make no mistake, I have no letters behind my name that say I am qualified to make these observations. I think I have something better than that. I have the first hand experience and knowledge of a parent! I also have the experience of being someone that has lived a good portion of their life in an unhealthy manner and now choose, consciously, to live a Health Lifestyle.

Do The PHD’s Really Know How To Live A Healthy Lifestyle?

Anecdotally the answer would have to be no. All you have to do is take one look at the disfunction in their lives, typically, to know this much is true. The doctor’s, especially the mental ones, have no idea what a Healthy Lifestyle even looks like. So my question is this, what qualifies them to make these assertions as to how we should live our lives and raise our children and why do so many people give them any credibility at all? It is akin to going to a financial planner that has filed for bankruptcy 2 or 3 times and taking his advice on how to manage our money…oops…actually based on most people’s financial condition it may be that they have done that too. Okay, so what got me so worked up that I felt it was time to bring this behavior into the light?

Last week my son was in day camp and some kids were throwing acorns and then rocks at him. I personally do not think they were actually trying to hurt him and Jonathan did not think that either. They were just being boys. They are eight and nine year olds. They have no real idea that someone could get seriously hurt. It reminded me of when I was a kid and we lived in a new development. We would have dirt ball fights almost everyday and invariably someone got hurt. It is what boys do. So, moving on, Jonathan asked the kids to stop and they didn’t. He grabbed on of the kids by the arm and Jonathan happens to be a very large boy for his age. I do not mean fat large, I mean big. He towers at least four or five inches over most of the kids and he is very strong for his age. As a consequence when he grabbed this kids arm he left a bruise on it. Now when I was a kid and somebody five inches taller than you asked you to stop something that was offending them you stopped or you got your butt kicked in. But not anymore, now we have a “zero tolerance” policy that prevents anyone from defending themselves. The result is my son got suspended from camp and the kids that were doing the damage went on their merry way. This scenario raises so many issues it is not even funny. I will try to address them one at a time and I certainly would appreciate feedback on this issue as I think it is something that really effects all of us at the core and makes it nearly impossible to live a Healthy Lifestyle.

My first point is this. I do not believe the motives for this “zero tolerance” policy have anything to do with trying to teach our kids to live a Healthy Lifestyle and I believe it has everything to do with insurance premiums and that is the adults fault. Everytime something happens people want to sue other people and the richer the people are that can get sued the more prevalent it becomes. The “free lunch” issue again. So to keep insurance rates manageable these day camps must put on a show of protecting these kids from harm and one of the ways they do that is with this policy. So what is the solution to this? Simple, parents stop suing other parents when your kids act like kids and hurt each other. Their behaviors are how they learn that throwing rocks hurts, whether you are the thrower or the kid that gets your butt kicked cause you did not stop when the other kid asked you to. I believe it is this whole mentality that the supposed adults in our society have embraced that declares it is always someone else’s fault when something happens to them. This attitude is being passed on to our children and as a result we are rearing a population of victims.

I told my son that the next time something like that happens, the first thing he is to do is tell the councilor. If it continues after that then he has my permission to take action on his own to stop it and he will not get in trouble with me. If he gets kicked out of camp then he will just have to play with me. I happen to be a pretty fun dad if I say so myself. I also told him that when questioned he needs to respond to authority in a respectful but firm way and explain to them that he made the issue clear and asked for assistance, when none came he solved the problem himself. This way the responsibility will be placed where it belongs.

Depression, Kids And A Healthy Lifestyle

It truly is no mystery to me why so many kids are depressed these days. I have purposefully left the adults out of the equation for now and we will come back to that. We teach our kids to be victims and that they have no power to respond when being victimized and this just does not make sense to a mind that has not learned yet how to delude itself. We wonder why kids look at us with that WTF are you talking about look? Parents, just because you are terrified of life does not give you the right to spread that same poison to your kids. Just because you are too afraid to take a stand or a chance with or on anything does not give you the right to teach that behavior to your kids.

Why are kids so depressed? Again simple, they are being sent a negative message from the people they are supposed to be able to trust the most and sooner or later they wind up believing them. The message they receive is live in fear, beacause if you do not watch every move you make someone will step on you. Because most people quit when encountering setbacks, they think that taking risks is foolish. This translates into the fear that I am talking about. It is the same fear that tells the dreamer to get their head out of the clouds and deal with reality. As if these people that say these things are just bubbling over with the joy of living a Healthy Lifestyle. No they are usually the ones that are miserable but put on a good game face, are living a life of disappointment and compromise but tell you they are fine and most assuredly are not living a Healthy lifestyle. Oh yes, to be sure they are at the gym everyday and physically they look fabulous but women that are living the Healthy Lifestyle don’t need fake boobs to feel “more” like a woman and the men who are living a Healthy Lifestyle understand that is a very shallow goal to persue. The fake boobs I mean. The thing is that if you did a survey you would find that a large percentage of the adult population sees nothing wrong with placing fake stuff in your body to make it appear different than it really is. Hmmm…is it remotely possible that the adult population does the same thing with their minds as they do with their bodies? You may delude yourself into thinking this is okay and maybe for you it is but you have no right to pass this low self-esteem onto your children, especially under the guise of trying to protect them.

Please do not misunderstand, I am not saying we should have no boundaries. In fact I am saying exactly the opposite, we need boundaries, they just have to be healthy boundaries. Placing your fear into your kids is not going to achieve this goal and most certainly will not teach them how to live a Healthy Lifestyle, no matter how often they go to the gym. Living a Healthy Lifestyle starts from the inside and works its way out. People that feel good about themselves on the inside will automatically reflect that on the outside. People that do not feel good about themselves can spend ten hours a day at the gym and their sense of accomplishment will be shortlived. Worse they still will not feel good about themselves and all they wind up doing is poisoning those around them.

It really is time for the adults in our society to stop living in fear. It is killing our children. Many of them are already the walking dead whether that is because of the poison placed in their minds or the drugs they are given to keep them in line. Parents you must stop before it is too late. If you called what you were actually doing what it really is then you would see that you are commiting murder of a genocidal nature. We are in danger of losing, if we have not already lost, a whole generation of people to this fear of life and low self esteem. We have already lost one generation, the one I am living in, please do not damn your progeny to the same fate. Allow them the opportunity to live a Healthy Lifestyle and prosper inside and out.

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Where Is The Love In Deceit? – Healthy Lifestyle

Sep08
2011 Leave a Comment Written by ghoepfl

Criticism And The Healthy Lifestyle

“That lesson has stuck with me my whole life. When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.”
- “The Last Lecture,” the story of a Carnegie Mellon professor who in his last months of life decides to spread a message about truly living.

I was reading a blog that a friend wrote and came across that quote and, in my opinion, there is nothing more sacred to living a Healthy lifestyle than surrounding yourself with people that have the courage to be a true friend and be honest with you. I may not want to hear what is said, as the truth can be painfully harsh but if I want to live a Healthy lifestyle it is going to take much more than eating organic fruits and vegetables. The problem is that we do not live in a healthy society and so truth telling has become a nastier thing than lying. Go figure, and people wonder why they cannot live a healthy life style and are sick or in pain all the time.

Telling The Truth From The False – Health Living And A Healthy Lifestyle

Try to explain to someone that the reason they are always sick or injured is because their body is trying to tell them they are on the wrong path and no where close to a Healthy lifestyle or Healthy living. Check the reaction you get. Most likely it will be akin to the reaction you would get if you tried to poison them. On the other hand tell them how wonderful they are, even though they are not and they will want to be around you all the time, like white on rice.
There does not seem to be much respect anymore for the strength it takes to tell someone you care about the truth. You know it is going to hurt them and may jeopardize the relationship but you do it anyway. Why, because it is the right thing to do. Friends watch out for each other, but more than that, friends hold each other accountable. We live in a society today that believes exactly the opposite. This thinking does not lend itself to a Healthy Lifestyle or good health.
I understand why this is so. Let’s face it, people that are living mediocre lives, and I am not talking about their achievements, do not care to be called on their lack of. The reason I point out the material achievements is because that is very easy to fake and not a good benchmark for determining whether someone is actually living a Healthy Lifestyle. The problem is most people are living mediocre lives. They know it and the only thing they can do is try to convince those that seek a higher ground that they are foolish for desiring this. Sadly many potentially great people are falling for this and our society crumbles a little more each day we buy into this lie.

Reality TV Is Not Real – Healthy Lifestyle

God, please wake up just for a second. You do not have to stay awake but just for a minute acknowledge that reality tv is not reality and we may begin to take a step in the direction of a Healthy lifestyle as a society. This is just one example but it is worth pointing out because if you listen you will actually hear people talking about these actors on the reality shows as if what they are doing is real. Huh? Are you nuts? Sorry redundant question.
That is the thing though, people to a great degree are nuts and do not realize it. They have taken the truth and made it a dirty word and glorified the lie with rationalization after rationalization. At the rate we are going we will destroy ourselves as a civilized society long before we ever achieve a Healthy lifestyle.
What do these rationalizations sound like? here’s one that you will hear all the time and it comes in two forms. The first is a defense of the refusal to stand on anything and it goes like this, I do not judge, it is none of my business what other people do. Really? Then why do you gossip about those same people behind their back regarding the exact issues you supposedly did not judge them on? You think because you did not have the guts to be honest with them but could tell anyone else that would indulge you, this makes you non-judgmental? You are a hypocrite and a liar.
Side two of the same coin goes something like this, you have no right to judge me you do not understand my situation. This only happens when you have the courage to call someone on poor behavior. My answer to this is I do have the right and should if I am to call myself your friend and not be a hypocrite myself. People that truly love other people tell them when their behaviors are causing pain, in themselves and others. If your manipulations and lies cause pain to yourself and the people that you supposedly care about, what kind of friend would I be if I did not tell you? But in the society we live in today we have it all backwards. The person that is willing to blow smoke up our a$$ is considered a good friend. They always tell us what we want to hear. The “friend” does this under the guise of keeping the peace and minding their own business. That is of course until they are in a venue where they can talk about your behavior without you hearing what they really think. Of course the person who had the guts to say it straight to your face…well they are certainly not someone to be respected because after all they are judging. This thinking will not edify a Healthy Lifestyle.
Yes, people like that are judging and they have every right to and, frankly, a responsibility to do just that. What you need to understand is that most of these people are not judging you, they are judging the behavior. If you were not so defensive about the poor behavior you would understand that.
The essence of true living and living a Healthy lifestyle is in the honesty that we bring to our lives. If there is no honesty there can be no healthy lifestyle. Kid yourself all you want but there is no escaping this fact. If you want to live a Healthy lifestyle and prosper then you must begin to get and stay honest, first with yourself and then with others. Stop worrying about how many friends you have and start considering how good a friend you are and they are. Base this observation on the integrity of the relationship, not whether they make you feel good all the time.
It has been my experience that trying to live a Healthy lifestyle is rarely the most comfortable feeling in the world as my physical desires are driven by my ego and not what my heart wants. Think about that. Where are you living, in your head or in your heart? Then ask yourself, how is that working? Be honest. If you have to take a pill everyday just to get out of bed or you are constantly physically challenged in some way then you may want to take a look at that. Or you can be like most and just medicate yourself into oblivion or settle for a lesser dream of living. I, personally, choose to live a Healthy lifestyle and this means being honest and honoring the core of my being. Once I do this on a consistent basis I can truly honor others.
There are some great teachings out there on this subject. If you want to begin living a Healthy lifestyle then a book I highly recommend is called “The Four Agreements”. It is a book on ancient Toltec Wisdom. It will change your life and how you see things.
If you go to our Amazon Store I am certain you can purchase it there. It is a short book and not very expensive and if you wish to live a Healthy lifestyle there is no better place to start than on the inside of you.

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Strategic Dieting – Healthy Lifestyle

Dec26
2011 Leave a Comment Written by ghoepfl

In This Post We Will Be Talking About Ways To Improve Your Diet

Diet Commitment To A Healthy Lifestyle / Healthy Living / Healthy Diet

If you happen to be concerned with getting rid of some weight and living a Healthy Lifestyle, improving your diet is a great place to start. Making enhancements to your diet is a really good thing, of course, but it requires tons of commitment because just like living a Healthy Lifestyle it’s hard to stay with it day after day. From personal experience, it could be a bit too much to completely overhaul your diet, so altering things bit by bit can be more effective. You can start off by phasing out junk as well as fast food in favor of something much more nutritious. To greatly enhance the foods your eating, check out the 5 tips down below they are certain to improve your diet and enhance a Healthy Lifestyle:

Make Sure Your Diet Program Is Nicely Balanced – Healthy Lifestyle / Healthy Living / Healthy Diet

You should never ever eat an excessive amount of any particular food for a healthy diet and a Healthy Lifestyle. As with the the greater part of lifestyle opportunities, food included, the answer is moderation. Be sure you eat enough carbohydrates as they’ll give you power, eat a good amount of necessary protein as protein will help build and repair cells and take in some fats as fat is very important in your healthy diet and an overall healthy Lifestyle (just not too much and try to avoid the bad fats!) Fiber is also important to ensure that your digestive system remains in good working order.

You Should Not Eat Big Servings Of Food – Healthy Lifestyle / healthy Living / Healthy Diet

More compact portions will serve you well in your healthy diet and Healthy Lifestyle quest. Because food is on your plate doesn’t mean your ought to eat it. We may be feeling extremely hungry so we eat a large plate of food and subsequently feel totally stuffed afterward. Any time you eat too much, of course, your stomach expands. Your bigger tummy will require excess food before sending it’s “I’m full” message, so you’ll try to eat even more, and so on. You don’t have to reduce your portions down to nothing, just approach it slowly; take only a little less food each time till your stomach gets used to it, and try it again. This one tip alone will greatly improve your Healthy Lifestyle approach.

Bring Fruits And Vegetables Into Your Diet Program – Healthy Lifestyle

Definitely try to include more fruits and vegetables in your Healthy Lifestyle diet, as they are a essential part of any diet. Your body has to have their nutrients and vitamins. Strive for five pieces of fresh fruit or veg for every day. Suck on an tangerine. Carve up an apple. Peel a banana. Cook up a little broccoli or green beans. It really is up to you. It really is quick and uncomplicated!

Take Your Time – Healthy Lifestyle / Healthy Living / Healthy Diet

Since your stomach isn’t going to even begin allowing the brain know it is getting full for at least twenty minutes, it’s extremely important to reduce the rate at which you shovel meals in. We’ve all had the experience; we inhale a huge plate of food, a meal unto itself, but we’re certainly not at all full so we grab for something more to eat. Then after another 10 minutes we really feel totally stuffed, not good for a healthy diet and a Healthy Lifestyle. So, sit back, relax and appreciate your meal!

Avoid Sugar – Healthy Lifestyle / Healthy Living / Healthy Diet

This is the game changer when it comes to a healthy diet and a Healthy Lifestyle. Sugar gives a nice sweet taste to many things you put it in, so it’s no wonder most of us like it so much. You can not really get rid of sugar from your diet regime but you can at any rate try to limit your sugar intake. When it comes to desert or a snack, try going for some fresh fruit or something you like that has a lesser amount of sugar. Provided with the choice, definitely go with a sugar free soda. Although I would avoid the soda altogether as it has an incredible amount of salt in it. Ever wonder why you drank a 0 calorie soda and gained three pounds? Think salt and water retention. Really if you are trying to live a Healthy Lifestyle try to keep your soda intake to a minimum.

These few basic steps will get the ball rolling on your healthy diet and Healthy Lifestyle – you’ll be on your way to effective weight loss and better all around health and fitness. Following these uncomplicated tips is a piece of cake – oops! Let me rephrase. It’s easy as falling off a log, so why not get started now on your healthy diet and Healthy Lifestyle?

Take Care,

The Healthy Abundant Living Team | Healthy Lifestyle | Healthy Living | Healthy Diet

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Free Offers From Healthy Lifestyle

Dec27
2011 Leave a Comment Written by ghoepfl

Free Offers For A Healthy Lifestyle

When I was first getting started with Healthy Lifestyle, the website, I was flat broke. Yet still I was able to pay all my bills and afford some of the nicer things in life. My friends were always asking me how I could afford this and I would just kinda chuckle and tell them I had an angel on my shoulder. Eventually I gave them the goods but we had some laughs about me playing with them first. So here is the deal I was flat broke and trying to get the Healthy Lifestyle website up and running and I have two addictions, one is necessary, food. The other is not really but I would argue that point, good coffee.

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So I started looking on the internet and low and behold I started to discover all kinds of free stuff, from groceries to coffee to airline tickets and everything in between. In some cases companies were literally giving away thousands in gift cards just so you would try them and their product. You have probably seen some of these offers yourself. I soon found out that some were good offers and some were not so good. By that I mean that some would simply ask for my email or just pay the shipping on a free trial while others wanted me to subscribe to a half dozen different services to get what they promised. Don’t get me wrong some of these lengthier qualifying programs are good, if I need the services that are part of the offer. It would do me no good if I had to spend $200.00 to get $100.00, you see my point.

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After much thought and consideration of time and after much bugging from my friends I have made here and in my day to day life, we have decided to publish a special page on Healthy Lifestyle that shows you the current offers that we think have value. This is a work in progress and we will add a couple of new offers every week that we think are quality and have personally used ourselves. Most of these offers will be along the lines of submit your email and claim your gift card or again a free trial that asks for you to pay only the shipping. (some of these are an incredible value) I have had instances where I have ordered a couple of hundred dollars worth of a companies product and paid only $6.00 for shipping. Pretty cool. The way I looked at it was they are going to get my email anyway so I might as well get something in return for it. Of course if I did not like what they sent to my email inbox I could always remove myself from their list, still I was left with the free stuff.

So anyway check out our new page and let us know what you think.

I think you will like the first two offers there. The first is for $100.00 in a Free Grocery Gift Card – when you see how simple it is to get this you will laugh out loud, I swear. I am smiling just thinking about the look you will have on your face. Go there now and check it out.

The second free offer is near and dear to my heart. Check this out, submit your email and get a Free $100.00 Starbucks Gift Card. Both offers are email submits. In the interest of full disclosure there are 4 questions you will need to answer to qualify, believe me these are not intrusive at all and will not offend your desire for privacy. We at Healthy Lifestyle truly hope you enjoy and derive benefit from this new service.

To Your Health,

The Healthy Abundant Living Team | Healthy Lifestyle

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Florida Department of Citrus Tries Targeting Young Women – The Ledger

Mar25
2012 Leave a Comment Written by healthy diet - Google News

Florida Department of Citrus Tries Targeting Young Women
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By JENNIFER FICKLEY-BAKER That old adage always works with style, so why not with what's in style for a healthy diet? Here in Florida, it certainly applies to the case of the grapefruit, a fruit — and juice — once often consumed by senior citizens is …

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Let’s start eating healthier – Malaysia Star

Mar24
2012 Leave a Comment Written by healthy diet - Google News

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Let's start eating healthier
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Learn from the experts about common dietary mistakes at the inaugural Star Health Fair this April. THE Star's inaugural Health Fair 2012 will be host to many activities on April 6-8 at the Mid Valley exhibition centre. One of activities will be a talk …

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Less sugar please – Malaysia Star

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2012 Leave a Comment Written by healthy diet - Google News

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Less sugar please
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By Dr TEE E SIONG SUGAR is one of the more controversial ingredients in food, and it has stimulated considerable debate amongst health professionals, industry, consumers, and even politicians and policy makers. One extreme view is that sugar is “pure, …

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Obesity Linked To Dementia And Cognitive Decline – Daily Gossip

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2012 Leave a Comment Written by healthy diet - Google News

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Obesity Linked To Dementia And Cognitive Decline
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The more scientists look into how obesity affects the human body the more it makes sense to abide by a healthy diet. Apart from boosting the risk of heart disorder and diabetes, now scientists have found out that obesity is linked to the development of …

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