healthy plant-based living

Over the past three years, I have had incredible success with losing weight and keeping it off. So it killed me when I came across an article the other day that was essentially telling people that eating five hundred calories of organic fruits and vegetables is basically no different than eating five hundred calories of steak with white bread and butter. What I have found to be common among the majority of these so called "health articles", is that rather than use their power to empower and inspire people, most of them leverage their power to instill fear and doubt; which I'm sure is exactly what their sponsors want them to do. By publishing this confusing, ridiculous nonsense, they are in fact turning a lot of people off to the very things that (I know for a fact !) actually help people lose weight! It's outrageous. So to set the record straight, I felt the need to express to you the truth about how incredibly simple and easy losing weight can be if you jus...

I grew up in a family that did not manage their money very well. We were always lead to believe that money was scarce, it didn't grow on trees, and that we ought to just appreciate what we had. Now, I have no problem with appreciating the things I have. In fact, I believe that having an attitude of gratitude is one of the most important things you can do in order to achieve true happiness in your life.  I do, however, have a problem with the weak minded, negative idea that money has some kind of a life force, and somehow that life force is hard to come by.  This kind of thinking is toxic and dumb.  The way I think about money now is completely different than it was when I was young; and far more helpful.  Money is a tool. Like a hammer in a  tool chest, it is neither bad or good. It is simply a neutral and inert object. Only in the hands of a person can that tool be manipulated to do good or bad things.  Money is obedient. Once you...

When I first started running in the summer of 2009, I was definitely not the runner I am today. I was slow, I was inefficient, and like most beginners, I struggled to get through my daily runs. Over the past two years however, I have learned a lot about running. The majority of what I learned came from reading books and magazine articles. They gave me a lot of helpful pieces of advice that uniquely improved my running performance. These tips were invaluable, and I am grateful for the incredible people who took the time out of their busy lives to write down what they learned, so that people like me could benefit from them. To pay homage to them, I thought it would be nice if I wrote down a few things that I have picked up along the way that might benefit you in the future. So here we go! 1. Less is more. When I first started running, I was completely horrible at it. I had no idea what I was supposed to do. Naively, I thought I could just strap on a pair of running shoes and e...