Vice Busting Diet by Julia Havey

 

The Vice Busting Diet by Julia Havey is a big-time winner. Her personal story, her book and online program certainly make her one of the good guys in the world of diets and weight loss. She once weighed over 300 pounds and loss half her body weight in 15 months. Like so many of us who've lost a lot of weight, she tried just about everything; books, alternative theories, pills and supplements, fad diets and the conventional weight loss programs. Her life's adventure eventually led to a complete overhaul of her life; divorce, relocation and eventually led to building a business to help other people follow in her path.

The Vice Busting Diet is a 26-week plan that focuses on not just sensible diet and exercise, but lots of motivational elements, mental training and spiritual awakening that produces long-term lifestyle change. The ultimate goal of her strategies is to attack life in a new direction to deal with and compensate for your personal demons and vices.

Over the 26 weeks, the lifestyle changes are implemented gradually so you have the chance to reflect upon and develop new ways of living. Over time, you begin to develop an understanding of what is good and bad, helpful and not helpful about the changes you are making. Each week, you have one goal or trait to develop and add to your new lifestyle. Week after week you continuously add traits.

The Vice Busting Diet online program includes downloadable literature, journals, videos and audio components. The program is quite organized and user-friendly, with daily 10-minute instruction for motivation to keep yourself honest. As for the food portion of the program, The Vice Busting Diet consists of different kinds of meals and snacks rather than concrete menu choices, but it does follow the traditional food guide pyramid pretty closely. It includes suggestions for healthy snacks, meals, and also recommendations for eating out.

Exercise plays a fundamental part in The Vice Busting Diet. Not only for the 26 week program period, but for long-term sustained weight loss. That is really where your focus should be. Those who lose a lot of weight and keep it off, almost universally, exercise daily.

The most prominent criticism of The Vice Busting Diet is that it last so long, 26 weeks. Curious, why any diet reviewer would write that. Are you looking to lose weight temporarily or do you want to lose weight and keep it off forever. If that's your goal, then you don't have many choices in commercial weight loss programs. This is one. I would definitely check it out!