Hello  healthy, fit, balanced friends! 

Lots to catch you up on: Candace was greeted by a very warm welcome up in Tallahassee November 19th when she went up there to promote our book and give several seminars.  In fact she had such a well-received experience that she jumped on the opportunity to re-open a Naturopathic office in Tallahassee - at first just 3 days per month, by appt only.  It looks like she will be available WED-FRI every 3rd week per month.  Candace actually began her Naturopathic practice in Tallahassee in 1996 so she is very excited to reconnect with some of her original clients.  Candace is on a networking mission, and the alternative medicine circle is a close knit one…she is the hub:)  

Max has just finished filming his ‘Amazing ABS!’ DVD to go hand in hand with his amazing ABS guide ebook (already available here).  The DVD is in post-production by www.ndpix.com and it should be available for sale on our website in early JAN, so be sure to check back in.  This new DVD is specifically targeted on how to obtain and maintain lean ‘6-pack’ ABS, and is hard hitting and to the point.  Max directed the whole project and it will be about a 35 min DVD.  You will get an inside look at Max’s fit lifestyle and see him demonstrating his 8 favorite abdominal exercises, and having fun the southern Cali way.  

Since our last blog, Max has also been shooting for clients such as ‘Maximum Fitness’ mag, ‘Workout 180′ and ‘Tranform-12′ infomercials, and Hoist Fitness Systems.  It looks like he has also booked R.E.I. on location in Hawaii, and www.weightvest.com .  

Max’s pet iguana Spike is 15 years old an also lives a holistic and naturopathic lifestyle: In fact, Spike is now the official mascot of www.concretewavemagazine.comand you can see his video on Max’s site, www.maxwettstein.com under the videos link.  

I hope this holiday season is treating you well.  As far as your diet and waist-size go, it can be tough with all the NFL Sundays, holiday parties, and office pot-lucks.  Have no fear: Don’t hate yourself over one indulgent snack or even entire cheat day.  Everything in moderation, and just get right back on your healthy path.  Anticipate your big weekend social event and plan to over indulge a bit on that occasion.  Keep your work-outs going consistently through out.  They will save you and keep your physiology working efficiently and make your body more glucose tolerant so you burn sugar for energy and store it as glycogen for fuel instead of as FAT!…Exercise alone, accomplishes this.  

Most of the weight gain the morning after a huge party is temporary gain, such as water and glycogen, (in effect, carbo-loading).  You can and will quickly recover from this back to your normal weight and homeostasis.  For more on this topic, please check in at www.maxwettstein.com !  

See you back here in a few weeks after Santa comes!  Happy holidays and Merry Christmas!  

Giant hugs from Candace, Max, and Team DHP!

Greetings fellow holistic health family! We took a break from our blog to get some technical difficulties ironed out – (this website is still only 2 months old you know!) – But now we are back. We have added lots of new content to include a pictures page, videos, and a new e-book titled, ‘Max’s Guide to Amazing ABS!’ What is great about this new e-book is that it is specifically focused on one thing: obtaining the highly sought after and often illusive ‘6-pack’ abs! As you know Max is a veteran fitness cover model with over 16 covers all focused on his lean abs – so you can trust him as your abs-expert! Max shares insider techniques and professional methods, and even some shoot-prep secrets! Max is Men’s Health magazine’s 2009 Amazing ABS Calendar cover model, so that should tell you something about his abs! See his promotional video on our home page for more on what this new e-book is about. Candace is on her way up to Tallahassee on November 20th for a huge book promotion event and will give several holistic health and fat-loss presentations as well. She is promoting our premiere book, ‘How Much Fat are You Carrying?’ which is currently unavailable for sale, as our first printing has sold out and we are making a few revisions for the 2nd printing. This book will be for sale again by the 17th of November or so, here on our website. Be sure to go to our newsletter link and submit your email address if you want to be included as a recipient of our monthly newsletter written personally by Candace & Max. Stay up to date on all of our latest news, as well as the latest holistic health and fitness tips. Stay tuned, because our interview on the Gregory Mantell Show will air next week and we will have the video embedded on our website. If you want even more from Candace & Max, you can network with us further on Facebook.com and Linked-IN. Until next time, remember: Optimum health is a method of life. Being lean matters most, not just skinny! Candace & Max

We are sooo thrilled that all of you wonderful folks took the time to come out to Gold’s Gym in MT Dora and Vic’s Embers reception, so we could meet you in person during our initial book promotion and signing.  What a great and personal way to launch our book!  Our hands were getting tired after autographing over 60 books, and we were pleasantly surprised and touched by all of you that came out.  Many of you had so many great stories to share with us, and Max even met several people that knew his father and grandfather, Max SR and JR.  We were fortunate enough to have several magazines come out to profile us and take some pictures…so all of you that attended, keep a look out - you may be famous soon!

Vic’s Embers restaurant hosted a fantastic reception for us, and special thanks to Amanda Wettstein of Baker-Wettstein Media for arranging that for us.  Some tasty appetizers, and a champagne toast to top it off, and then Max even had to bust out his abs, as not to be out done by Jason!  Maryann Wettstein surprised us with an awesome gourmet cake decorated with the name of our book, and then a few celebratory dances were in order.  Max then attempted a few breakdance moves and gave the dance circle a good laugh…oh boy.

Just to be sure everyone knows, if you come meet us at a book-signing you get a special deal on our book for only $18 and autographed.  Otherwise it is now for sale on our wonderful site, (Thanks Bradley and Joyce of B&J Graphics!) for only $21.95!  Joyce Saum came out to help us at Saturday’s Gold’s Gym book promotion too, as did our Team DHP members, John and Cynthia Adams.

Our next promotion and signing will be at the Encinitas Nutri-Sport store, in Max’s city Encinitas CA, and in Valley Center, CA, hosted by Susie Adcock.  Both of these promotions will be on OCT 11th.

Well that is all for now, and we already feel bad about all the great folks that came out to see us and help out who we did not personally mention by name!  But much love to you all.

Here is a fun link of Max, doing what he does best: Discussing Ab-Awareness on a webcast: http://www.clarkbartram.com/video/ab-secrets

Pictures to be posted soon from last weekends events!

Optimum health is a way of life,

Candace & Max

Howdy everybody:

We apologize for the delay in getting our book for sale on this website, (due to ’shopping cart’ issues soon to be resolved), but for those of you who can’t wait any longer or can’t make our initial book launch at Gold’s Gym this Saturday:

Our book is available for purchase NOW at www.amazon.com

Thanks, Candace & Max

Howdy everybody and if you hadn’t heard yet, our first holitstic fat-loss book, ‘How Much Fat are You Carrying?’, is about to launch this week, Saturday Sept. 27th to be exact.

We are officially lauching our book at an exciting promotion hosted by Gold’s Gym in MT Dora, Florida this Saturday Sept. 27th.  Here we will both be present to sign copies of the book, meet & greet, and answer questions.

The book will be available for sale on this website as well after the 27th, or you will also be able to buy the e-book download, if that is your style.  You will also be able to purchase both on Amazon.com

The next three book promotion and signings that we will BOTH be available at, will be located in California:

OCT. 11th - Valley Center, CA at 11 AM, hosted by Suzie Adcock, and then at the Encinitas Nutri-Sport store OCT. 11th at 3 PM.

OCT. 25th in Beverly Hills, CA at the Wilshire theater we will also be having another book promotion and signing at the Fitness Model International Finals show, where Max will also be competing against some of the nation’s top fitness-models.

If you would like to view a video web-cast of Max discussing the book please visit: http://www.clarkbartram.com/video/max-fitness-modeling

Talk soon!…We are very excited to meet all of you finally!

-Candace & Max

 We’re glad you took the time to explore our site and find our blogging page.  This could be the most fun and insightful spot for you and us, as this is meant to be an open and informal communication forum for all of us to have open discussions about just about any topic related to holistic health and fitness.  YOU all will be our interactive members and we are encouraging your feedback to our posts and we want you to get involved.

If there is something you take issue with, can personally relate to, or have a question about, please post a comment.  If you have a testimonial you would like to share, we would love for all of our holistic-health ‘family’ to benefit from it.

However, please bear with us these next couple of weeks as we are still deep in the process of getting this site up and running and all of the kinks worked out - keep in mind we haven’t even officially launched Destination Health Plus yet.  We just wanted to let this website start to stretch its legs a little.

Know that every blog posted here will be directly (and personally) from Candace or Max, unedited and uncensored!  We will be expressing our sincere feelings and opinions here.  Together we have a lot to offer you - a lot more depth: Candace brings expertise in health and disease, clinical experience and nutrition; while Max brings fitness and exercise physiology expertise, fitness coaching, and, phsyique-sculpting know-how.

We’re excited to get started and we hope you all are too!

Sincerely,

Candace & Max