My wife and I recently returned from a week in Orlando with more than 700 other Health Coaches from across the nation all there to learn how to be a better Health Coach.
It was our annual Take Shape For Life National Convention. It was well organized, informationally packed, a lot of fun and [...]

It is the Continental Divide that slices America into two sections. If you are west of it your rivers will eventually flow into the Pacific Ocean. If you are east then all your rivers eventually flow into the Atlantic or Arctic. My home state of Colorado sits on that big split and it definitely shows. [...]

My brother Jared and his family visited over the holiday weekend and I got talking with him about blogs.  He’s had a personal blog for six years but never started posting until recently.  Now he’s a regular “blogger”.  We both agreed that the blogosphere is an excellent medium to inform, entertain, inspire,… the blog can be anything you want [...]

If I didn’t enjoy restaurants, cooking and eating as much as I do (and I really do) then maybe I would have never got fat in the first place.  But then again, who’s to say.  In retrospect I knew I was heading in that direction long before the 40 extra pounds plagued my body.  What’s crazy however is I now look back on those [...]

Hello world!
The first thing I want to say on the first day of the first blog is a big, big thank you to my wife for creating this site. The design and development of “i’m livin’ it” has been a great effort in realizing a vision we both shared. Joy, your talents and perseverance never [...]