Hello again my friends -- Apologies for my long absence - unfortunately a long unsettled financial matter has kept me from you -- as I, with my unsteady mind, rendered bonkers by a 5 year bout with bi polar disorder of the comatose type -- was forced to do a forensic analysis on a painful financial account. It's been a rough time at the old homestead - like many Americans, we are holding on by our fingernails. I took a purposeful break from my Herbalife for a year or so -- and extraordinarily -- the weight loss held for quite a while.

However, I've noticed a few things that are different, and those things are telling me that it is definitely time to get back on the health train. What's different? Well, even though my weight is fine (I'm not as thin as I was post-Herbalife, but I didn't really want to be THAT thin. I like my size now, and that part of the equation is all good. What I have noticed is that my hair, which became thicker, fluffier and more dark, is now thin and graying.

So yes, I return, and am about to put the "OPEN FOR BUSINESS" sign on our Internet store.  Bi polar crisis passed, and in my absence there were over 2000 hits to this site, and 500 hits to my little internet store.  Boy, am I chagrined, and I hope you will forgive me.  Herbalife has the greatest, healthiest product line I've ever, ever come CLOSE to finding, and I hope to have the skills to tell you exactly why over time.

During the last year of my depression we "decided" to take a break from Herbalife for a while; our imaginations had failed us and we were tired of sweet foods.  This is where YOU come in!  I want this to be an open discussion board re the matters of health, exercise, diabetes, benefits of the products, etc.  If you have questions that I cannot answer, I'll come back with the answers (if at all possible!); it's going to take me a while to catch up on all the new products that have made their appearance since my illness.

So what happened during this break?  Did I re-gain all of my weight?  NO!! That's one thing I want you to understand -- Herbalife weight losses are for real, and though if you drop the program completely for a while, as I did, you probably will put some of the weight on -- let's see -- my high point was around the 170+ range, I dropped down to heh heh around 138, which is just about perfect for me.  As I told you somewhere in this blog, as I was in a profound and pretty much catatonic depression, the only exercise I got was rolling back and forth in bed!!  35 pounds in 6 months!!!!

During my year or so off I did gain; I went up to 150.  But still, when I faced that number and realized that once again, I feared that bathroom scale, I knew exactly what to do about it.  Now, just about a month or so later, my weight is normalizing, my energy is returning, and my sweetie noticed that once again, my formerly somewhat gray roots are re-growing -- dark brown -- again.  Herbalife rocks -- there's no other way to put it!

And I'm not the only one who thinks so!  Anyone heard of soccer's team Barcelona (Barca! Barca!) and its Superstar of Soccer, Leo Messi?  Did you know that Herbalife had the genius to pick Barcelona before they were really HOT, and they are now the proud sponsors of that extraordinary team and its "once in a lifetime" player, Mr (adorable) Messi.  Videos to follow.

Soccer Super-Star Leo Messi plays Basketball!

More later,
Julie

PS:  For a look at the complete product line, plus descriptions of they do for you, please visit www.herbalife.com





If you have any questions or want to make an order before I get set up, just email me with your desires - I shall be at your service.  It feels good to be back.

Leadership Development Weekend Day 2

Let's see -- last time I checked in (I'm writing to you from Alaska now) I was at the Herbalife "Leadership Development Weekend" in Sacramento. As I said earlier, the Herbalife people know how to treat their distributors. Everything about the entire weekend exuded generosity of spirit, intelligence, positivity -- none of the sleaze factor that can be associated with Sales.

The presenters were terrific. People from all walks of life; each had an extraordinary success story to tell. In this terrifying economic time (for me anyway!) I appreciated hearing the different ways people had of building and managing their businesses.

Everyone who has been in the Herbalife business for a while says that it is important to get yourself to a training event like the Leadership Development Weekend. I've been turned off by other such events with a different group I'd worked with, and I wasn't sure, but I qualified for the Leadership Development Weekend, and I thought I'd be a fool if I didn't take advantage of it. They have these things for a reason -- to educate leaders, and that's what I am interested in being.

Some of the presenters were very young and loved to approach people in malls asking them if they were interested in health and nutrition -- these girls were so lively and cute! I could completely see that they might enjoy that way of doing business. I cannot think of anything I would like to do less. Fortunately, there are many different methods of doing business as an Herbalife distributor -- there's even a place for people with mild social anxiety disorder. Like me.

You have to earn the right to be present at these events -- they don't just let everyone in at the higher levels of training. You have to have demonstrated, in one way or another, adequate interest in really doing some business. In my case I didn't do anything spectacular but recognize that Herbalife was, for a passionate and disciplined person (well, I'm working on the discipline!), a way to attain financial freedom. Their compensation plan is tremendous, and the product is second to none, in my opinion.

I've known this was the company for us ever since a moment of "first contact" I'd had in my meditation over my computer. But for some reason I couldn't transmit what I felt to my partner. It had been a little depressing with Patrick and the business lately. I felt consumed by it and I wanted him to understand in the way that I did.

But I'm a person who learns by reading. Everybody learns differently. I was the one with the system on my computer and Patrick wasn't, and he wasn't connecting with the business like I was. I felt like he didn't get it, and honestly I felt he was being a drag on me. He made commitments and didn't follow through, and I began to feel that I would have to do the business alone.

But things do change, and change they did for Patrick as he listened to the stories of the Herbalife people at that weekend in Sacramento. There's something about hearing the stories of the business people who have profited so greatly from a brilliant group of products* and a generous compensation system that is set up to reward those who step out of their comfort zone and get those products into the kitchens of other people.

Patrick came home a changed man, ready to begin this business and definitely excited about it. He recruited a fantastic young man almost immediately and I simply am almost in shock at the difference a weekend like that can make. And we didn't go to any of the famous Herbalife parties; we didn't even manage to attend all of the conference as I can't sit in certain sorts of chairs for more than several hours due to old back injuries.

Still -- that weekend worked its magic, and Patrick Gavin Duffy became a proud and enthusiastic voice for Herbalife from that weekend forward! We plan to start our first cycle of "Weight Loss Challenges" in our neighborhood -- but before we do that, we're going to get some Herbalife Survival Kits put together for people going to Burning Man over Labor Day Weekend.

*I inadvertantly wrote "prouducts" -- certainly a freudian slip!

Introduction -- the Why of the Why

This post by Julie: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary what in the world I was going to do with my life, I decided to ask my computer. Do a little magical gazing, as it were.

What? You did -- what?

I decided to ask my computer. I love my computer more than anything outside of the people/animal kingdom, but I'd always thought of it as a distraction. It never occurred to me to use this thing I love so much to make money. I'd come to a dangerous dead-end in my life. I'd raised my children so well that they actually felt independent enough to -- leave me. I didn't foresee the emotional devastation of the "empty nest syndrome".

My money, which I'd thought would last for the rest of my life, was about to run out. Our heater exploded for the last time that fall, and early in January 2009, on his birthday, my partner fell in a ditch, breaking a bone in his right hand and two ribs. We were cold, hungry, miserable, in pain and scared to death.

One night I was at the computer, thinking about my particular gifts and opening myself up to the possibility of finding something I would want to do with passion. That was the night I found Herbalife and Global Home Business Systems (GHBS).

I knew nothing about Herbalife when I first came across the website. But the moment I made the connection, that I saw the word "Herbalife" something in me shouted "THIS IS IT!!" and I literally began jumping for joy on the spot. I do not exaggerate -- I felt like I had found something amazing! That was around March, and the things I have experienced and seen have been astonishing. Yes, you heard me -- I said ASTONISHING.

Yes, it is true, and I freely admit it. Ladies and Gentlemen: I am an intelligent woman of sound mind ready to tell you I have never believed in the conception of cellular regeneration until I'd had three months on the Herbalife products. But I absolutely do now. Why? Because they work, they really actually work. and they work in ways more wonderful than I had ever imagined possible. This is my own personal story, and my husband's. Our experiences, and those of the people who find us here.

What could have happened that would inspire this kind of devotion in two people who have been involved in the natural food/slow food movements for years? Changes -- undeniable, unbelievable changes. I lost over 15 pounds in 8 weeks, and I haven't been able to lose weight for years. I have a great deal of self control, but my metabolism had slowed down for several reasons, and my strategy for coping was poor -- I ate less and less and felt more and more weak. I couldn't stand eating and I couldn't move. Within a week of adding 2 Herbalife shakes a day to my diet (I wasn't replacing anything because I wasn't eating anything) I started to lose weight. It has been unbelievable. I have gone from the heaviest I've ever been to about half of the way to my goal weight, AND I'm still on the way down. That is INCREDIBLE, and I want to help people have the kind of success I've had. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in our country, and there's a way out! Come with us on our Herbalife Adventure!

I've talked a bit about my experiences. My husband Patrick has also had a deep and positive response to adding Herbalife shakes and vitamins to his daily regimen. For the entire 7 1/2 years we've been together, Patrick's health had been declining, and an unseen killer was teeming in his bloodstream. He had an advanced case of gum disease, and bacteria were on the verge of overwhelming his fragile body. He went to sleep at 7 pm and would arise at noon the next day, never feeling refreshed. As I was the sole support of the family at this point, he didn't want to tell me about the problem because his dentist quoted him a figure of $8000. A year later the figure had ballooned to $20,000, and this doctor wasn't about to treat people who needed to pay over time. Interestingly, he only ever spoke in terms of dollars -- he NEVER TOLD ME that Patrick could be in danger from this condition, and only by grace and the miraculous did I put information together in time to get Patrick on antibiotics before his heart was overwhelmed -- I know in my being that I could have lost him -- that I almost in fact did..

He recovered, but not completely. A year later he got a job as a food demonstrator (not very satisfying for an artist/geographer) and within a few weeks had a nagging cough. He was diagnosed with pneumonia and went on antibiotics. He seemed to get better but several weeks later we were up in the mountains and I realized that Patrick still had pneumonia, and we were nowhere near medical help. He survived, but again did not thrive. There had been such continual attacks on his system that, according to one doctor, his entire hormonal balance was thrown off. I could have told them that his testosterone count was low.

Despite an intensely passionate relationship, after only two years and seemingly overnight, our sexual connection virtually ended. He was barely over fifty, and had never ever had a sexual problem. In fact, the opposite had always been true -- he's said "if I could be stricken down, ANYBODY could". So for over five years we lived together pretty much platonically. We kissed a lot and stayed close, but nothing worked. There was barely a sign of life, no matter what we did. And I lost hope. And while I lost hope I gained weight, because -- what difference did it make?

Fortunately, our devotion to one another was great, and we had enough discipline to avoid ripping one another to shreds over -- everything. So why in the world bring the details of our personal suffering up in this sort of forum? The best sort of reason -- we found a family of food supplements that completely changed our lives -- from my hitherto IMPOSSIBLE weight loss to the beautiful healthy color of Patrick's skin. After only two months of using the Herbalife products on a daily basis, my sweetheart is back and our lovelife is back on track again -- after 5 and one half years, people!! I had completely given up hope.

If you'd like to research our products, go to "http://cellularhealthmart.com. For info on the online weight loss challenges, go to "http://weightlosschlg.com". If you are interested in working from home, online, either part or full time, go to "http://wrkathomeonline.com" -- because of our particular economy, the time is right for this sort of work. More on that later!