Josh LaJaunie and I had a spirited conversation with Hope Hughes and David Powell, hosts of the Curiously Veg Podcast, about a recent BBC documentary which featured the autopsy of an obese woman. Hope and David were taken aback by critics who accused the film of fat shaming. They reached to to me, and I…
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On March 28, 2014, Dave Willits suffered a heart attack at work, and died at the hospital later that day.
Several times, in fact.
Luckily for him (and us), he was revived every time, and awoke from his surgery vowing never to take another day for granted. Dave had thought himself in good shape at the age of 53, so he quickly realized that all his assumptions about how to have a healthy heart were flawed.
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Josh LaJaunie is, by his own admission, a simple Bayou coonass who discovered plants and running, and transformed his life. His backstory is well documented in a couple of Rich Roll Podcasts, which you should drop everything and listen to if you don’t know Josh yet (links below).
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Pam Kropf is on an inspiring journey of wellness and self-actualization that lacks some of the drama our culture associates with growth and change.
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Heather Goodwin is fond of saying that she was born at her ideal weight, and that was the last time she ever saw it.
In her teens her weight was in the hundreds; in her twenties, the two-hundreds; in her thirties, the three-hundreds, and in her forties – well, you can see where this is going.
Read MorePart 1: DO When we want to change our destiny, we start by changing our behavior. Hence DO. I’ve literally wasted years of my life planning, pondering, weighing my options, thinking, considering, evaluating, and anticipating instead of doing. There’s nothing wrong with thinking, of course. Nothing wrong with planning, with anticipating mishaps and preparing for them….
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Jim Gray (middle of the photo) knew that he had been dealt a lousy health hand when he was diagnosed with high blood pressure at the tender age of 18. At that point, he was in good shape, a high school athlete, muscular and lean at six feet tall and weighing under 200 pounds.
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Jason Cohen tipped the scale at 297 pounds when a buddy of his moved and left him a bicycle. That, along with the death of a slightly older, leaner friend, carrot-and-sticked Jason to a weight loss journey that soon turned into much more.
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