Awaken the Diet Within: From Overweight to Looking Great-If I Can Do It, So Can You

by Julia Griggs Havey

Book Overview

In this title, Julia Griggs Havey shares the weight-loss secrets which enabled her to lose 130 pounds and become a beauty queen. With more than 130 delicious recipes, nutritional advice and fitness tips, the reader can discover how easy it is to achieve success.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446530166
• ISBN13: 9780446530163
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

No more counting!!

I will admit that I am a skeptic. I have tried every diet out there known to man and woman. With so many diet books on the market these days, it is amazing that any of them could convince an overweight person (me) to buy them. Julia did this for me in person. I was at a local bookstore where I had plucked yet another great sounding diet book off the shelf and went to sit down to read it noticing the woman behind a small table to the side of me selling yet another great sounding diet book. There was no one sitting around us at the time so I gave her about 5 seconds to say something to me and of course, she did."Could I talk you out of buying that book?" She asked, and inside I cringed and thought, `Oh great, here we go!'Over the next few minutes, I met a woman that was both down to earth and very like me. She is a mother, and a wife, remarried to a wonderful man after being married to a not so wonderful man the first time around. She spoke to me about taking things slowly, not trying to lose 30 pounds in 10 days. About living your life now not waiting until you lose some pounds or until everyone else in your life is satisfied with their lives to do so. Most of what she said made sense to me. I ended up buying her book which she signed for me, and so far I haven't regretted one penny!Finally, a book that makes sense! No counting calories or points. No writing down every little morsel that passes your lips. What Julia proposes is a no-nonsense life style change of self-improvement through self-motivation. Julia Griggs Havey details out a plan that takes things at your pace, if you don't feel comfortable moving on to the next level then you stay where you are until you are ready to enter the next phase of your metamorphous to the brand new you.My first day reading her book brought about a question that I e-mailed to her and to my surprise she answered back promptly HERSELF! She answers all her own e-mails! If that isn't devotion to others, then I don't know what is.Julia has her own web site, and will talk to you via e-mails, on-line chats, and even personal phone calls so I hear if you want. This book is not for anyone that wants to lose the previously mentioned 30 pounds in 10 days but about a total life change. I highly recommend it!

What a different approach!

I can't believe that this book is so powerful. At first, I thought this was a 'chick' book, but it really isn't. I was so moved by how this woman not only changed her life, but wants to help others to do the same. Her "vice busting" approach is the most original and real method for developing a healthy lifestyle that I have ever heard of. As a family physician, I see many different health conditions, I know what is healthy to eat, yet often lacked the motivation or direction to do so. Julia set me straight. She will set you straight. Don't wait another day to start your journey with this woman. Oprah.....why haven't you introduced Julia to the world?That is my only complaint! Why I haven't I heard of this woman sooner!Joseph T. Douglas

I love Julia's way of helping!

I read Julia's book and did her 3 month plan to help me get going and it has helped more than anything I've tried! It's so easy and has helped me change my life by looking at all the great things I can do to improve my life, which has helped me lose weight! I've lost 29 pounds in the last 4 months, and have 26 pounds to go, even though I'm looking at this as adapting to a healthy lifestyle. Julia's way of helping has helped put me in control and giving me strength to make the simple changes to lose weight and be happy! I would recommend her book if your looking for the motivation, and her Lifechanger for giving you the step-by-step plan! Check it out on her website!

The tools to help you change your life are in this book:

This is a book that will change your life. It is the story of how Julia Havey lost 130 lbs. This is not just another diet book that tells you to do it my way and you will lose weight overnight. This book will give you the tools to develop a healthy lifestyle that fits your life. This book will give you the tools to learn about yourself and adapt healthy habits you will use to develop a healthy lifestyle for yourself that fits your life for the rest of your life. With this book you will be able to begin living your life again.Julia does not ask you to give up everything and change immediately. She does not expect you to start your exercise program by running a marathon. Her premise is to take small steps to begin to incorporate healthy habits into your daily routine. She presents common sense principles and ideas in this book that will lead to a healthy lifestyle, with the by-product of your new healthy lifestyle being happiness, awareness, power, success-and oh, yes, weight loss goes along with all this other good stuff. Check out Julia Havey's website. This will give you an idea of what her ideas are all about concerning self-improvement through self-motivation. Her tapes are inspriational, educational, and will help you through many weight loss hurdles. She will respond personally to your needs and questions about developing a healthy lifestyle.Julia Havey's book, tapes, and website helped me lose 40 lbs. She has helped others lose a lot more weight than that. At 160 lbs. my life was a mess, I had no energy, I was miserable, and I didn't think I would ever see 150 lbs. again, much less 120. As I read Julia's book I realized I could make small changes like drink more water and become aware of my food choices. I could slowly add activities to my life at my pace-it was fine to start with activities that I could do for however long I could do them and then as I got stronger I could add activity at my pace. This is not a diet program; this is not a plan that will set you up for failure if you do not follow it to the letter. This is a way to incorporate aspects of a healthy lifestyle into your life at your own pace to improve your life and your health. This book will help you change your life for the better. This is not something that will end when your reach your weight loss goals. This is a lifestyle change that will allow you to have your health and be fit for the rest of your life.The successful person gets up one more time than the person that fails. If you have tried over and over, for years and years to try to lose weight and have given up and think nothing will help you I urge you to do yourself a favor and read this book, look at Julia's website, please don't give up. You are worth the effort. Your health and your life can change-you have the power within to succeed. This book will be your guide to doing that.

The BEST Motivational weightloss tool! Worth every penny!

Julia Griggs Havey does a wonderful job at opening her heart to share such a personal journey through her low points, improvements and whole life style changes that her readers can identify with. It helps you see past just the physical downsides to being overweight and touches the emotional aspects of weight problems. I was forty pounds overweight and desperate for a quick fix after at least a hundred failed attempts. Julia's book gave me the motivation and the hope to lose the extra pounds when no other diet or book had come close. She is a wonderful inspiration that has made a fantastic impact on my life and I am so thankful to have read it. There is no quick fix to the problem, but Julia makes it painlessly easy to take the baby steps needed for a major lifestyle change without it being too overwhelming. The book helped me to realize that I was eating to feed my emotions like she was, how to take a step back and eat for nourishment not to soothe the brain. I highly recommend this book! It is worth every penny!