Wellness is the central trend for the coming decades

Hi, two years ago I was a fat, stressed out IT professional working a fast paced and stressful one-man business driving all over the country with a young family to support and no job security.

I felt vulnerable and the future looked like a slippery downwards slope into another job working for someone else. I had no desire to employ other people (I'd already had a bad experience of being an employee) so I was very wary of starting another business with all the associated risks, uncertainty and expense. At 34 years old we had reached a position of apparent wealth but with no time freedom and no social life. My wife Karen was stuck at home in Sheffield struggling to keep things together almost as a single mum.

Alison & myself discovered Herbalife 5 and half years ago when we were contacted via a direct mail shot.

At the time we were working in the IT industry as Software developers within the Insurance Industry. Although we were earning well above the average wage we were both very stressed with Peter working long hours with a long commute each day travelling in excess of 40,000 miles per year, not easy in the South East!

We were both piling on the pounds due to poor eating habits and to many bacon sandwiches on Peters part. After being introduced to Herbalife we decided to try the products first so purchased an IBP, because we were told to!

Eleven years ago, on the surface, we were happy and successful. Barry was a senior IT manager for a large American bank, and I was an IT Business Analyst for another bank. We had a lovely house in a private road and a brand-new BMW on the driveway. But the reality was long hours, major stress, commuting nightmares, and battles to get time off together. We were busy planning our wedding, dreaming of the future we would have, the things we would do together. Then 6 months before our wedding, I was rushed into hospital with a severe asthma attack & Barry was warned that I might not recover. This was our wake-up call. We had stop talking about the lifestyle we wanted and start doing something about it.
We looked into many possibilities, shops, post offices, buying an existing business and franchising, but not one offered quality of life – there were safety issues, even greater time constraints, and most required a large investment for minimum-wage income.
 

Someone called about my enquiry, and I couldn't help but be impressed by how happy he sounded. He told me how he worked from home, around his family, and still achieved a great income. It all sounded a little too good to be true, but that wasn't going to stop me finding out for myself, so I went along to a local meeting the next weekend to talk to others too.

I was bowled over by the results, both for the income people were earning and the results people were getting using the products. The severity of my asthma had stopped me being able to exercise so I had gained weight, and my health had steadily deteriorated. All of my family were either on diets, had just quit diets, were talking about starting diets, so if the products worked half as well as they said, as a Business Analyst, I knew there was an opportunity here.

Barry was not so optimistic, and had refused to come to the meeting with me. So, I started on my own, working closely with Jeff & Debbie Williams, who introduced me to the business. I knew absolutely nothing, so I just followed their advice, including getting onto the products myself.

I would never have believed the results good nutrition could offer. I lost 2 stone and dropped 2 dress sizes, and felt better than ever before. It was my health result that got Barry's attention. He tried the products for himself, and although has never needed to lose weight, found that, at 40, he felt much better than he had for years.

Our first 10 customers came to us! They saw the results we got and wanted to know what we were taking!

All we have done since then is to offer others the chance to achieve the results they want, whether that's to earn an income on their own terms, control their weight or improve their general health through the power of nutrition.

In return, we now work from home, together. We work the hours we choose, and live wherever we want! We achieved the Millionaire Team in 2 ½ years, and have travelled all over Europe, to LA and the Bahamas, and have been to loads of parties, themed, black-tie, on the beach, in a cathedral, 5-star hotels, and even a party for 17,000 people in a warehouse in Germany!

Unlike IT, where, if we did our jobs successfully, often others lost theirs, we now feel proud of how we take care of our own future by helping others to improve theirs.

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