The Healthy Lifestyles Living Wellness Blog with Larry Lewis

Is Your Current Lifestyle Making You Ill?

Are your daily lifestyle choices setting you up for illness in later life, or even worse are they impacting your life right now? Take our quiz today and find out! 15 Questions, 70 points, what's your health score?

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Lead a Healthy Lifestyle if you want to Feel Better and Live Longer

Lead a Healthy Lifestyle if you want to Feel Better and Live Longer

Think of lifestyle change as an evolving process, not as something with which you can start then stop when your targets are achieved. It’s easy to get caught up in the idea that you can achieve a certain number on a scale or a certain body size and that will be ...
Nuts to Diabetes

Nuts to Diabetes

The UK is seeing an explosion of diabetes linked to growing obesity rates. Since 1996 the number of people diagnosed with diabetes has increased from 1.4 million to 2.6 million. By 2025 it is estimated that over four million people will have diabetes. Most of these cases will be Type 2 diabetes, ...
Put Your Weight to Good Use

Put Your Weight to Good Use

So here we go — you are all set to storm into 2011 with great fitness resolutions. So what are your goals? Are your resolution to get fit? Lose weight? Feel more energetic? So you just can’t get into the Gym! You really have no time to workout! Between work, commuting, and ...
New Year Resolutions – Kick Start 2011

New Year Resolutions – Kick Start 2011

When Michelangelo was asked how he carved the statue of David, the representation of the biblical hero , he said: "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David." At this time of year, many of us are thinking about making New Year's Resolutions to change things ...
I Love Weight Training

I Love Weight Training

I love weight training, it’s one of those things that no matter how your day is going… it will always be there to give you the ultimate challenge… the one against yourself! Weight training is my passion. I still feel the thrill, the excitement of walking into the gym and seeing the ...
The Gift of Health for Christmas

The Gift of Health for Christmas

It seems even Father Christmas isn’t safe from the consequences of stress during the festive season. News Flash! Father Christmas (alias Santa Clause) was stopped while speeding in a Sleigh. He was given a breathalyzer test, and was found to be 4 times over the alcohol limit. He has also admitted to ...
My Sister’s Life Meant Something

My Sister’s Life Meant Something

Today for me was a day of reflection. It would have been my sister’s birthday. My Sister was born 17th December 1953 and passed away on the 9th September 2001. I am sure her death brought her peace after travelling a difficult life path. A poem that I feel reveals my emotions, by ...
Why Do We Blog

Why Do We Blog

The World of Blogging has sky rocketed over the last 5 years. Recently I found these stats: • On July 31, 2006, Technorati tracked its 50 millionth blog • The blogosphere is doubling about once every 6 and a half months • About 175,000 new weblogs are created each day • There are more than ...
What to do when you overeat

What to do when you overeat

The ideas for blog posts come from the strangest places sometimes. As a Lifestyle Coach I am often advising my clients and readers on all matters healthy lifestyle, often paying particular attention to health eating. Frequently I am having to answer all sorts of questions. One of the most common questions ...
Obesity is a modern problem

Obesity is a modern problem

80% of men and nearly 70% of women in the United Kingdom will be overweight or obese by 2020, based on data from the Health Survey for England. The statistics from the National Heart Forum showed that 41% of adult men will be obese while 40% will be overweight by 2020. ...