The sticks and stones diet!?

Before we get down to it, first read this great review for my book, The Vice Busting Diet that the 3FatChicks posted on their blog:

" When we surveyed thousands of readers at 3FC, we heard over and over how hard it was to get started on a diet. Why is it so hard to stick with a healthy eating plan for even a couple of weeks? One of the reasons is because old habits are hard to break. Julia Havey has found a slow and easy approach to getting past your bad habits with The Vice Busting Diet . You might not consider yourself to have a vice, but even if you have bad habits, which let's face it - most overweight people do - then this book may be able to help you."

Isn't that a super review!?

I would love it if the 3FATchicks changed their name to the 3AmazingChicks.com site, after all, what they are doing is amazing--they are helping hundreds of women to improve their lives, their health and their bodies. I see them as so much more than FAT, but they apparently do not see a problem with labeling themselves with a negative moniker, I do! I don't want any woman to EVER call herself "FAT"--perhaps her body is, but SHE, "who" she is has to be much more than simply a physically descriptive word. FAT is NOT a personality trait and it shouldn't be how we define ourselves or allow anyone else to define us! Recently actor Isaiah Washington found himself in a lot of hot water when he called a fellow cast member the "F" word even though some in the gay community may use that term; they find it offensive for others to do so. Micheal Richards used the "N" word and ended up in rehab to mend his ways depsite the fact that the term is very popular within the black culture.

In today's society we do not tolerate negative, self-depricating and insulting words, yet when it comes to FAT it is the last bastion of discrimination, tolerated hate and harassment that we have left, and until we stop calling ourselves these negative self-depricating words, no one else is going to. If you were walking down the street and someone called you FAT, you would cry inside wouldn't you?

If your spouse called you FAT, you would be devastated, wouldn't you?

If your boss called you FAT, you would want to quit, wouldn't you?

So, don't call yourself FAT, don't tolerate it from ANYONE--and that is the first step to ridding your life and your body of fat!

If you have been in a rut and are having trouble losing the weight , finding the energy, and feeling and looking great, then try a lifestyle transformation. Not a transformation that will give you unrealistic expectations of being a different person in a week. But a transformation that starts with simple actions - one step at a time. Imagine you change the course of your life by just 1 degree. It doesn't sound like much, but extapolate that out to 1 year and you will be miles away from where you would have been had you not made any changes.

You can start today by making that one change. And next week, you can make another change. That's the approach that has been helping thousands of people. Start by learning what the top three diet vices are in the U.S. and are spreading throughout the world.

Put your blinders on and get moving. Like a horse that focuses on the finish line, I think all of us would do much better if we set goals and kept our focus on those goals. Don't let unnecessary distractions take you away from what you'd like to accomplish in your life. At the end of the week, month, year and even 10 years later, you'll be able to look back and think about all the positive experiences you've had along the way. A life of healthy living is a life full of opportunity. Don't look at the obstacles and think about how many there are or how difficult you think they may be. Look at a healthy life and believe how great it is, and take action to move in that direction.

Don't accept FAT as a word that would describe you for another day!
Julia