In my daily life – after I had my by – pass – I choose to eat healthy –
at least the best I could ! For those of you out there – you know just how hard this can be ! It is not easy – too many temptations ! I am giving this to you from one who struggles each and every day to maintain .
I am very fortunate to have a wife who helps me and guides me and keeps me on course. She is a Certified Health Coach from Dr. Sears courses. One of my main go to’s is a Health Drink – which is a WHOLE FOOD !
That my friends is very hard to find ! Making Healthy Breakfast Drinks – with a blender – DIY – is awesome ! Mine consists of ICE – crushed – a little water from the fridge – one half banana – one cup of Soy or Almond milk – and the main source of nutrition – a package of either DUTCH CHOCOLATE + or FRENCH VANILLA + !
This is a drink in powder form from Juice Plus called COMPLETE ! Not only does it fill me up for breakfast ( lunch also ) – but it provides a Proprietary Protein blend 13 grams. WHOLE FOOD with only 140 calories without the banana or Soy or Almond milk !
With 11 grams of sugar – 20 grams of carbohydrates – Dietary Fibers at 8 grams – Soluble Fiber 6 grams and Insoluble Fibers at 2 grams – I found this the best way to go for myself !
Plus – I actually feel filled up ! I sometimes add fruit – and a dab of peanut butter – not often ! I make it what I want and the flavors – DUTCH CHOCOLATE is my favorite !
I will provide a website for you to look over – feel free – and yes it is my wife’s ! You see – without her guidance – after my WIDOW MAKER HEART ATTACK in 2013 – I most likely would not be writing this now. I know it because I survived to live it !
http://www.sf.juiceplus.com is her official site . It contains a bundle of information. Not only do I follow it – I LIVE IT ! There is more – much more to write about – I posted a blog on this site a few years ago on my survival – if you have health issues – please read it – if you want more info – just leave a comment and I will get back to you, God Bless and HGD !
Every day – I try to remember whatever I can about the past !
Some days – you are on top – others – well – you forget
Keeping up with memory – both short term and long term – requires concentration – at least that is my way.
I have little tricks I use to remember – like my keys – I try to always put them in one place when I am not using them – and when I go someplace – they always going my left hand pants pocket.
If they are not there – then I am in trouble – because in my mind I have to back track from the last time I remember having them.
I think food has a lot to do with it !
I think what food we eat – has a lot to do with memory – just how I feel.
Everyday – for my memory I take OMEGA’S 3 – 6 -7- 9 -made from algae. I really do not like the taste or after taste of fish oil – and I am not keen on fish and mercury.
Developing habits – I find helps me tremendously – find a routine and stick with it – when you vary – is when you forget – at least for me !
Find a nutrition supplement
When you deal with your mind – find a nutrition supplement – read the research – whole food is important – processed food is not – drink whole food when you can – plant based is what I eat and drink.
I hope this helps – short term and long term memory – keeping it for as long as you can.
Oh – I also read – I absorb interesting things – just little tidbits – you would be surprised when you answer what no one else remember – simply because you found it interesting somewhere along the way !
What I remember most from my life before we started this healthy living – was my obsession with fast food.
I loved Mcdonald’s double quarter pounders and fries – and diet Coke!
This would become a whole new way of living for me – one that I started to give up what I loved to eat –
Milk – Sodas(POP) – fast food – fried foods –
The thing I regret the most is Juice Plus was around THIRTEEN YEARS before I even heard of it –
so I lost those years and that time before – 35 years – of eating unhealthy – led to my heart attack!
I am convinced had I not changed – I would not have survived my heart attack – FOUR BLOCKAGES!
Putting the above into my body at that stage of my life – I feel gave me the best chance of survival and I am forever grateful for that.
Today we are in our SENIOR YEARS – enjoying life and health as a lifestyle.
Along this journey of eighteen years – not only have we changed our own lives – but that of our family – friends – strangers – and lots and lots of children!
The day we said YES – to the question –
“IF YOU COULD PUT 30 DIFFERENT FRUITS AND VEGETABLES AND BERRIES INTO YOUR BODY – EVERY DAY WITH A CAPSULE – WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED”?
That question and that day – I strongly feel saved my life all those years ago – for I had not put those
fruits- vegetables, and berries into my body for all those years.
And now going on for eighteen years we are asking you and people like you that very question!
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Being a Partner for The Juice Plus Company for is rewarding in helping children eat healthy!
Do you know this company offers one adult sponsor who agrees to purchase the product –
to sponsor a child between the ages of Four to twenty-six – a FREE product of Fruit and Vegetables!
This would be FREE as long as the Sponsor continues to purchase their own product of Fruits and Vegetables.
Helping children develop good eating habits – while putting the Nutrients of 30 fruits and vegetables into their bloodstream each and every day for up to 22 years!
That is astounding!
Thirty years – forty-eight published researches in major medical journals – proving what nutrients from fruits and vegetables do to the body.
Partners who have not only changed the lives of their customers and their families –
but have an opportunity to enhance their own lives with an income each month – ongoing –
changing lives in health and wealth.
The Juice Plus products are known all over the World and sold in over twenty countries worldwide!
Our mentors – Sue and Bob Burdick – who were there at the beginning over thirty years ago –
enhancing Partners’ lives all these years and helping all to become healthy.
Break out session – one-third of the room and the second breakout for this session –
Partners learning – Partners sharing and Partners for Health and Nutrition.
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Top performing Partners – just having fun living life to the plus one day at a time!
Everyone celebrates their birthday on a special day !
It is very rare to celebrate your birthday with your child !
But – how rare is it to celebrate your birthday
with TWO of your children !!!
Taylor – Tammy – Cassidy all share the same day September 3rd.
Nine years ago the twins were born –
43 years ago – Tammy was born –
all on September 3 rd. !!!
Cassidy and Taylor
The twins had to be delivered early
The doctor said Taylor was growing and Cassidy wasn’t !
And so it has been all their lives
They grow at the same pace now
Taylor and Cassidy
Alike but different – same as their size –
one athletic ( Cassidy ) Gymnastics –
one who loves and rides horses ( Taylor )
both who adore their mother and MORMOR ( SHERRY ) Mothers mother !
Tammy and Sherry
Tammy – played basketball – soccer and in the marching band growing up !
Tammy in the marching band all those years ago
Today – she runs her own business –
Two of them actually
One Health and Nutrition
as a Sales Coordinator for the Juice Plus Company
Tammy at her own store 529kidsconsignloudoun
The other is her own store she opened up over a year ago !
A kids consignment
dealing in only upscale clothing ages 3 months to size 14 !
Her store is open six days a week and she has four part time employees !
Cassidy so little but so feisty Taylor so loving – so mature
So all have the same day as a birthday means days and days of celebrations
Daughter and Mother
Mother and daughter so much alike!
Marcus and Tammy husband and wife
Marcus – our son in law – daddy to the kids !
Cassidy -Tammy and Taylor the birthday party at our house and Bode’s handFit bits from us they were so excited and wear them every day trying to out do each other in steps !!!!The little guy Bode watching he and Cassidy are two peas in a pod !!!!
As the years pass – we have a door upstairs –
on the back of that door recorded with dates and names
In 2005 – we started our journey – ” LIVING LIFE TO THE PLUS ” !
It was my wife Sherry who first started and and after 3 1/2 months – I finally got it through my thick Irish head that “HEY” something is happening!
Little things – but first where did this all take place ? Well – she said to me – there is a Health Expo at the D.C. Capital One center – and is sponsored by the network NBC for your health . Well – I was game – and into Washington D.C. we went !
Now – with over thousand of vendors – my aim was to go to the stage and concessions – eat and watch the entertainment – and meet up later. Which is exactly what I did. She in turn – found a Healthy eating booth – and bought the product – Fruits – Vegetables and berries in a capsule !
Since she hated vegetables ( since then she has developed a craving for them ) it was a easy fix for what she was not eating ! However – as I was eating my second cheeseburger ( yes – I was that bad ) she asked me if I wanted to try this out ? NOPE – I was fine – I went to have my checkup every six months – I was on MEDS and had no desire !
Long story short – I STARTED TO NOTICE LITTLE THINGS – like her hair was more shiny – her fingernails were growing faster – she was able to read at night in bed without her glasses – and she started eating vegetables ! That was something she hated !
So – I asked her – why are you doing this and what made you try it ? She replied – I needed to make a change and it was there – it clicked plus they had the RESEARCH proving what it did ! ( today there are 36 published papers) Then she said – ” YOU CAN DO THIS WITH ME – OR I WILL DO IT WITHOUT YOU – BUT I WANT YOU IN MY LIFE ” !
That was the day we both started living ” LIFE TO THE PLUS ” ! Almost 14 years now – and – because I was a terrible fast food junkie for 35 years – I paid the price – I had done the damage before I started my new eating lifestyle. In 2013 – I had the WIDOW MAKERS heart attack !
One blockage of 100 % – one at 90 % – one at 79 % and one at 60 % !
All those years – eating bad – BUT – had I not changed – I would not be here- the doctors told me just that – I was the most healthy heart attack person they had ever seen. I had FOUR BY PASSES – and within 52 hours – I was home standing in my living room being nicknamed ” THE RABBIT ” for how fast I recovered by the hospital staff !
Now one of the researches done by the University of Maryland – was on the Berries and how when combined with the fruits and vegetables – helped to keep the arteries open after a high fat meal !
I honestly believe that it was that one thing that kept me alive! I will always believe that – and that is why today we are LOVING LIFE TO THE PLUS !
JUICE PLUS was and is my savior – I believe that – it is my life and my belief. I will continue to take it – and almost 14 years later – I have my wife to thank for it . For without her telling me – ” I WANT YOU IN MY LIFE TOGETHER” and ” I WANT YOU WITH ME ” well – I am still here – this is just a part of my story of living out my dreams.
Thank you all for reading – “PAPA’S WORLD ” is alive – God Bless ! HGD
Each day I lace them up – double tie my Sketchers – Kucher would be proud of me !
Sherry walking the trail
We have lived in our community for thirteen years – and during that time – as it developed – so have the walking trails – 15 miles of them !
Soon – as other sections open up – an additional 5 to 8 miles will be added.
Storm brewing over the lake
Walking has become a way of life for both of us – each with our own fit bits !
We have many different paths to follow – and can customize them to almost any length we want.
About a 1/2 mile left to home
Our goal is walk walk 10,000 steps each day – depending on the weather, we also walk for different charities.
I have found walking outside – is much more to my liking than a tread mill – I get bored way to easy on them !
Health – is my main reason for walking.
In 2013 – ( see a previous blog ) I suffered a major HEAR ATTACK –
known as the WIDOW MAKER !
I ended up with OPEN HEART surgery – and am still alive ( I take Juice Plus )
My wife – Sherry – certified health coach
My recovery has been amazing –
and I have the best coach I could have – my wife – who has worked so hard and absorbed so much in Healthy living.
Moving – is what my Heart doctor says is the one factor that means the most to me in my post care – along with eating healthy –
no dairy – no processed food – no red meat – no gluten – a little beer once in a while – and if I do have any of the above – it is rare and a small amount.
One of the exercise stations along the way
Maintaining has become a way of life for me – and taking a supplement – you can search the internet –
I stay away from vitamins – as they are mostly selective in my opinion – I choose the WHOLE FOOD way for my self.
Eating as many servings of fruits and vegetables as I can – and that is hard to do !
So – I use a supplement – called Juice Plus – raw fruits – vegetables and berries – juiced – skins and all – and then slowly dried – and left in a powder of nutrients –
that research proves goes immediately into the blood stream.
The path through the woods.
Walking for health – I have to if I want to live longer !
Sometimes –
yes -I do cheat – it is too cold or raining or snowing
( next Winter we are going South ) so we do not walk outside –
but I walk in the house. I have a routine – but that bores me !
So – we head for the Mall !
We have 5 free library stations along the paths.
I also keep my mind sharp as I can –
I find the exercise of writing – forcing myself to think – to create –
( I do not know what I will write each day ) !
My writing is SEEING and then THINKING and then WRITING !
Our Free Library’s offer a pickup and exchange books – you bring one and take one.
I READ all the time – my wife runs the church book club and I have read books that I have never heard of !
It keeps my mind sharp – you have to keep body and mind going !
Tunnels so you do not have to cross in traffic
All lit up day and night
We have tunnels – under the roads –
so we do not have traffic to stop our walks – there are now FIVE of them and I just read where another trail will open and another tunnel will connect us to it !
Multiple bridges and lakes and streams and woods
We have Deer – Turkeys – Bears – Foxes -Geese – Birds – fish – turtles –
although I have never seen a Bear –
I have seen pictures taken of them and home security footage of them with in a couple blocks of our home !
We are reminded about garbage we put out – I have seen Deer running down the street and other wild life.
Almost home from our walk
I hope this helps in your quest for a healthy lifestyle –
ours is healthy eating – a healthy supplement – and walking – and reading
10,000 steps -trying each and every day – #livinglifetotheplus –
For the past 18-plus years – we have been on a quest to AGE HEALTHY!
The fountain of youth – well – as far as I know- doesn’t exist – so we do all we can to maintain our health – stay active and enjoy life to the fullest!
We eat the above every day – through solid foods and supplements!
We both are near our mid-seventies – exploring life and now living what is called here in the South –
THE SALT LIFE near the beaches and the ICW!
We practice the above every day – we do not smoke – have a few drinks here or there and live life to the plus.
Our daughter Debby is a QMND for Juice Plus Company – for almost 18 years we have been doing the Juice Plus program – eating and drinking the supplements.
Debby’s family – all Juice Plus users – living life to the plus one day at a time.
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My HEART HEALTHY MEAL WITH NO DRESSING AND SALMON! PAPA’S WORLD!
All through our years (37 ) of marriage – we have planted flowers and landscaping. In our home today – we await Spring with a eye to the beauty of FLOWER’S !
View of the back with our two Tower Gardens – bird bath and replanted Geranium’s from previous years. And to the left a portable pot of POTATO’S a first foe me.
Our first step every early Spring is preparing our two Tower Gardens for the growing season – April thru end of October. We also have one inside the garage with grow lights so we are eating fresh produce – November thru end of March – making our fresh produce growing year around.
Patio with flower ” Bicycle ” we purchase years ago at a garden show !
Yesterday – we went to Home Depot – to select different flowers and then potted them and placed in the patio. EXTRA BENEFIT unknown to us at check out – the man said – sign up for credit card today and receive $70.00 off your purchase – DEAL ! We payed $20.00 – rest was a credit and as soon as we got home – paid the credit card off !
One of two flower boxes on the walled in patio.
The flower boxes will be much bigger as the season progress’s. We try a different theme every year – Sherry picks the theme – my duty is ” It is not for me to question why – but for me to do or die ” !!
In a marriage – good motto to live by !
We found this flower pot holder in the trash years ago and reclaimed it – I painted it a couple days ago.
Always like sitting by flowers when sipping my coffee – the cushions we take in if it is going to rain.A stand alone pot holder which I repainted a couple days ago.
85 % of our plants that are in the beds – come back each year – so mostly – only a few do we purchase to plant in them – geraniums – we pull every year and put them in a bucket and hang from the ceiling – cleaning them up in the Spring and replant them – saving 90 % of them !
One of many flowering bushes we have that come out each year.
The twin bush that was shown before – on each end of the fence.
Front step on the porch.
This year we tried one more thing – Potato’s – we planted eight – five among our strawberry patch ( every year we pulled them in the Fall from the Tower Garden – and stuck them in the ground on the side of the house – 12 to 15 quarts last year ) and three more in a portable container – this is a first for me – not sure what to expect but they already are 16 inches high !
One of the beds out front with just the two planted flowers – rest come back every year along with our deep red – pink and light pink roses.
The beds in the front have a combination of colors Spring – Summer and Fall . Reds – pinks – yellows -purples – whites and many off shades. I also have planted Crepe Myrtles ( 3 of them ) that bloom late May and continue until late Fall – a deep ruby red !
All in all – Spring plantings are my favorite time of year -one that continues until the harsh cold of Fall and Winter.
Living life to the plus includes for me sights of Spring – Summer and Fall. I do not like the cold – ice and snow !
Eating healthy from our Tower Gardens ( even edible flowers) and enjoying nature in bloom – bringing a calm – for me lower blood pressure !
Our busy lives – our family – both our close family and what we consider our family of Juice Plus.
The journey began 13 years ago – and for us it was simply changing our life style – getting healthy – knowing that after we retired – we wanted to remain in life active as we had been in our early years.
Here we are – both 40 years old – playing not rec volleyball – but smash it in your face. The Beach Club – fond memories – we had to do something to maintain that competitive edge.
In the above picture – we had been married 7 years – and are to the far left at age 40 ! I had always played sports – softball until I was 38 years old – basketball for a radio station – and at age 46 after volleyball – golf.
On one of our golfing trips back home in NWPA.
Today – we golf as much as we can – but are busy with our lives – our grand kids and our in home business of The Juice Plus Company. We started this business as a way to pay for our product – and after one year – knew that we had to get our family and grand kids on it for health reasons. And then it started to grow – and grow . All from home while working full time in our Career business of TILE !! Yes – we worked a combined 79 1/2 years for the same company !
Part of our Juice Plus Family Team – from across the Country at the Conference in Tampa. NOTE – I AM THE ONLY GUY !!! LADIES GET IT !!!
Working for Corp. America is a dream when you are young – but can and did become a very stressful – unbearable lifestyle that we both wanted out of ! That is when we really took a look at the business side of Juice Plus. We were already distributors ( cost $50.00 a year ) – and were sharing it as the belief grew stronger and stronger with changes in our combined health. It became time to move forward – so a team developed – and it got bigger and bigger – just sharing – today we have two QMND’s and one Senior under Sherry – with one QMND walking the stage in October.
My step daughter Debby Taylor Meyers and my wife Sherry – just before we went to the Elton’s in Nashville Tenn.
Debby is almost there as a new NMD – (National Marketing Director) and we will most likely watch her WALK THE STAGE in Austin Texas – where she will give a speech before 8000 people – and recognized by the Juice Plus Company. Something that has changed her and her families lives ! Her daughter will receive up to$1750.00 per year for college! As one of her perks for being a NMD !
Part of our Juice Plus family and team. I REALLY NEED SOME GUYS TO BE THERE WITH ME ! LOL
We have made a dramatic change in a lot of lives – both in health and wealth. We retired – Sherry at age 63 – me at 64 – leaving behind successful careers – going full time in the Juice Plus business – traveling the Country – promoting health and showing how people can take control and work for themselves – living life to the plus one day at a time.
On one of our golf trips -“The nineteenth hole ” !
This August – we will tour Northern California – then in October – Austin Texas – then late January – all of February and early March – Florida – getting out of the cold ! All the while working from home on the computer and phone no matter where home is !
Our life has changed – to the good – no STRESS – maintaining a healthy lifestyle – playing golf – seeing our grand kids grow up-watching them go off to college – and most important – watching our two daughters pursue their own dreams of independence and life styles in health and nutrition.
Our road to success is a road map and we have a team following it – there is no ” I ” in TEAM – but there is a lifestyle out there – one that WE choose – and is one YOU can duplicate – TIME -LOVE – HEALTH – you just have to want it !
For more information go to http://www.sf.juiceplus.com – Sherry’s website – email – look at the site – you get this for $50.00 for a year !
You share – you take the order – send it in – the company process’s it – packages it – delivers it – collects the money for it – and sends you a commission every month ! You carry no inventory -you just share it like you would a good book or movie !
You get a whole new World full of people just like you who want to be healthy and wealthy and sharing life to the plus.
” PAPA’S WORLD – OUR WORLD OF HEALTH – JUICE PLUS “
All my life up to 16 years ago – I was a junk food addict!
I thought I was fit – playing sports until my late 40’s!
I ate all the time at McDonald’s – then something changed my life.
Sherry went to NBC for your health in Washington D.C.
I also went to the food court!
That is where she found a supplement that changed both our lives.
At first, I denied I needed it – then three months later I started to take it-
FRUITS AND VEGGIES AND BERRIES – JUICED – DRIED TO POWDER AND PUT IN CAPSULES!
NUTRIENTS OF 30 DIFFERENT KINDS EACH DAY!
It slowly over the years changed my life – I felt better – BUT – unknown to me – I had damaged my heart
from all those years ( 40 plus ) eating junk food and drinking cokes – mountain dew and gallons of milk.
I thought that was good for me.
EIGHT YEARS AFTER I STARTED ON THE SUPPLEMENT – I had a WIDOWMAKER HEART ATTACK!
FOUR ARTERIES INVOLVED – I almost did not make it!
I was rushed from work to the hospital where I had one artery 100 % blocked –
They put a stent in and the PAIN went away – but I was told I had three more that needed to be done!
It was too dangerous – I would have to have an open heart and four by-passes!
ONE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS!
All this time I never missed a day of my supplements – even when I went into the hospital.
Over 40 published types of research from major institutions from all over the world – convinced me that I was doing something right and not to give it up!
So – on a Monday morning – at 7:30 AM – they started – by 3:00 pm. they closed me up!
At 5:30 pm. they called my wife and daughters.
By 6:30 pm. I was standing!
I never went to the step down – I went straight to my room –
And I was told by the nurses and doctors I was the healthiest heart patient they had ever seen!
They wanted me to do an interview for some kind of research but I declined.
Here I am – 56 hours later standing in front of the Christmas tree – I was home!
I had a 100% – 90% – 60% and 40% blockages. I walked the halls in less than 20 hours –
Everyone told me they had no one like that – I went home and the other people who had surgery
that day were still in the step-down units.
Sherry and Papa – I had a nuke stress test late Jan. I passed with an excellent grade.
I just had all my blood tests – everything was very good – I STILL TAKE MY SUPPLEMENT
of 30 fruits – veggies and berries and now OMEGAS!
SHERRY and PAPA
Sixteen years ago my life changed and in my mind and heart –
I believe – I am still here – and I STILL TAKE THOSE SUPPLEMENTS EVERY DAY!
Ella – soon to be 21 – Sarah – soon to be 18 and Maddy – soon to be 24!
When they were small – we would take them into D.C. – either the Metro or drive-in.
They loved it – one time we took the Metro to Arlington – walked the cemetery –
and then walked across the 14th. street bridge and walked D.C.!
Sherry has had her “TEAM GENERATIONS” for Juice Plus for 19 years!
She and her two daughters started to bring health and nutrition to families.
Children between ages of 4 and 19 are free if an adult has purchased the product –
and continue to be free as long as that adult continues!
Here is part of her team – all from up and down the East Coast!
On one of our visits to friends in WNY on Lake Chautauqua – riding in a boat – laughing and having so much fun – we have known each other and were neighbors for years and years!
Taylor – now 13 going on 14 – Bode – now 9 soon to be 10 and Cassidy – now 13 soon to be 14!
In our town center in Brambleton, Va.
They lived just a mile from us – then they moved to the other side of Leesburg –
We sold our home and moved to OIB, N.C.
MEMORIES that always are in the back of my mind!
We are of like mind – believing in equality – helping as much as we can –
volunteering at the senior assisted living-
Delivering food to the food pantry.
Trying to be as helpful as we can and understanding those who are less fortunate!
We have always been this way and together, hoping to make a difference!
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