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Charlie Mike,
Justin M.

What to do when family members or friends attack you?

I know this is a touchy subject for everyone, myself included. However, I wanted to address it because I have had so many of these instances happen to me.

If the attack was physical, then get help immediately. Call your local police agency and press charges if you can. Do not tolerate any sort of physical attack. Look into restraining orders and any other court sponsored document that will help leave an audit trail for any future events that may happen. Your safety must come first!

In my case the attack was verbal. The person that attacked me is definitely too much of a coward to attempt a physical confrontation.

For any verbal or emotional attack

Evaluate if it is an ongoing pattern or a one time occurrence. Most often and unfortunately, it is a pattern. This is how you deal with an ongoing pattern of attacks.

The first thing you have to do is realize who you are dealing with. In my case I was dealing with a person that has a history of mental disorder, a person that has never been really happy in their life, a person that pretends to be a nice person but isn't, and a person that is actually involved in a cult. Really a deeply disturbed and terrible person that is also a compulsive liar. It is very sad actually.

Taking all of this into perspective you can see that there isn't any reasoning with a person like this.

The second thing you should recognize is that the person is probably lashing out at you because they feel inadequate and empty in their own life. They want to tear you down to make themselves feel better. They are probably jealous of your accomplishments and they want to hurt you. You don't have to take that or accept it.

The third thing you have to register is the fact that your peace of mind is worth avoiding that person in the future (if possible). Remember, you should forgive them, but you don't have to subject yourself to that type of behavior again. I know it will be hard to forgive them, but you should. Understand that you don't have to be treated this way.

The fourth thing to do is just move on with your life. Understand that some people are beyond help for us mere mortals. You should avoid that person, and pray for them. Pray that they don't lash out at anyone and pray that God will help them with their demons. Understand that only Almighty God can help them, and only if they allow it.

You can still love the person, even if it will be hard, but love them from a distance. Allow them to continue in their sad life and you go on living yours. No one deserves to be abused for any reason.

My advice to everyone is to surround yourself with positive people and people that add good things to your life. Family or friend it doesn't matter. You want people that build you up, and not try to tear you down. You want enrichment, peace, and harmony. You don't want or need drama. Thank you friends and may God bless you always.

CHARLIE MIKE :-)

Your friend
Justin M.

Let me know in the comments about similar experiences you have had in your life.

Lunch today!

Delicious juice today! I found some wonderful organic kale leaves at the grocery store. The leaves are thick, luxurious, and packed with nutrients!

Getting back on the wagon.

Well, I fell off the proverbial wagon last night, and had a cheat meal. Not one of my prouder moments, but it happens. Well, technically, I didn't fall off, since I did drink my whole food smoothie for breakfast. I did have a transgression against healthy, whole food, non-processed eating though.

Last night my wife and I decided to have a cheat/junk meal and we headed to Sonic! One footlong chili and cheese coney later I decided I absolutely had to have some ice cream. So to finish myself off, we headed to Dairy Queen. I decided to go with a large Dairy Queen soft-serve. Served in a cup sans any toppings of any kind. I am trying to make great food choices, or at least better bad choices. So rather than have the sundae, I went with just the plain ice cream.

About 30 minutes later, I felt absolutely terrible. The footlong coney dog with chili and cheese tasted fantastic. The ice cream was wonderful. Both hit me like a ton of bricks!

I felt like I couldn't breathe, and I felt like I didn't want to move. I ended up hitting the rack about 1 hour earlier than normal. I woke up this morning absolutely ravenous! That is what happens though when you eat food that doesn't properly nourish your body. Your stomach is filled up with junk food, but your body craves nutrition. Once your body processes that junk it is craves nutrients even more so you become hungrier than before. It is a vicious cycle folks!

To get back on the wagon this morning, I drank a delicious smoothie with the following ingredients:

1. Pineapple
2. Bunny-Luv Organic baby carrots
3. Granny Smith apple - the whole thing!
4. Some organic field greens
5. A couple of Sunset Mini cucumbers
With some prune juice for added sweetness.

Cheers!

How am I tracking my smoothie/whole foods plan? What tools am I using to be successful?

Hey everyone, I just wanted to write a note here about the software that I use to track my progress on this smoothie plan I am doing.

As you know, I am replacing 1 meal each day with a whole food smoothie. The smoothie is a mixture of fruits and vegetables only. All organic, healthy, and as fresh as I can make them.

I use my incredible Dash blender to blend my smoothie up to refreshing perfection!

The Dash blender is just as powerful as the more advertised brands, but it costs about 1/3 as much!
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The other aspect of this "diet" if you want to call it that, is my tracking software. I almost always carry my Samsung Note 4 phone with me (Love it!), so I wanted software that would run on the Android operating system.

The software I am using is called Goal Tracker. It is really great! It even gives me a little alarm to remind me that even though bacon and eggs sounds great, that I need to drink my smoothie.

Check out Goal Tracker here! You can come along with me on my journey to better health, smaller clothing, and a healthier life!

Cheers!

New Year but not a New resolution.

Last year I had a lot of success losing weight and keeping it off by eating only real foods, and avoiding excess starches. Right at about 30 lbs, my weight loss stalled, so I am trying something new.

I am having 1 whole food juice each morning for breakfast and nothing else. If I am absolutely starving, then I will eat 1 can of tuna in water or 1 can of sardines packed in pure olive oil. I do that for convenience though, any lean and natural source of protein (egg yolk and 3 whites, lean chicken, etc...) would also work.

I use my Super powerful Dash blender to pulverize/atomize the whole fruits and vegetables into a smooth, refreshing, and nutrient dense smoothie!

The Dash blender is just as powerful as those other powerful blenders on the market but it costs about 1/3 as much.

I will be skipping 1 meal per day for the next 30 days, and then I will be moving to two smoothie meals per day after that until I reach my idea weight. Throughout my journey I will tell you about my smoothies, my successes, and my failures, so stay tuned! Thanks!