REVIEW: “The Vice-Busting Diet” by Julia Havey
This is a book about making small, continuous changes over a period of 12 weeks. Each week, you focus on busting just ONE diet “vice” ~ the common ones being soda, fast-food, and watching too much television ~ and then you build on that, in the following week, by adding another vice to bust.
So, in week 2, not only are you practicing avoiding sodas, but you are also working on busting your fast-food (or other unhealthy eating) vice. That means, you’re replacing your bad, unhealthy habit with a healthier action.
Of course, at the end of 12 weeks you aren’t “done” — this is about lifestyle changes, after all. But, the main “plan” is for those twelve weeks. That gets you started, and gives you a basis for continuing on.
I enjoyed this book, and think it’s very sensible. Where the author talked about busting your TV habit, I substituted a “sedentary” habit — I sit around WAY too much, and could stand to be more active, for sure!
Definitely recommended, especially if you’re frustrated about never being able to stick with something for very long. 
Rated: B+
The author has a point. Making slow, small changes to your lifestyle have a better chance of sticking than a crazy crash diet that changes everything all at once. This book and its ideas sound promising. Thanks for the review!
Grace at Feeding My Book Addiction
It’s the Japanese principle of “Kaizen”… definitely smart.
This plan seems to be the best one for me but busting 12 (!) bad habits is a real challenge (does I have so much bad habits ?! Unfortunately, I suppose that the answer is yes but I can’t list them all. Strange, isn’t it ?
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I’m French and I don’t think we have “fun” diet books here, and yet I’m convinced that such plans are more motivating than the usual diets speeches (that we all know by heart …).
Thanks for this review !
It really doesn’t seem difficult — 12 seems overwhelming, I know, but when you read through the book, you realize that it’s so slow & gradual that you wouldn’t feel as overwhelmed. You just kind of have to “ignore” the big picture to begin with.
Week 1 is busting the soda habit — drinking more water.
Week 2 is busting your fast-food / diet vice (whatever takes up most excess calories for you) — replace with a healthy substitute… for me, this one includes snacking/emotional eating… replace with fruit/veggies.
Week 3 is busting your too much TV habit — exercise is allowed only AFTER or DURING your 20 minutes of cardio exercise.
Stuff like that… then it goes on from there, and it’s stuff like adding fruits/veggies/fiber/more exercise. Nothing super “hard”…
Thank you for the wonderful review of my book, The Vice Busting Diet! If you don’t mind, I would love to add that I have have expanded my program to be 26 weeks rather than just 12 and there is a workbook that goes with it and 26 weeks of audios (daily for first and hardest 21 days, then weekly–many people listen to the21 days over and over till their changes are cemented in them!) and the book is also translated in FRENCH! Best of all, it is totally free courtesy of my sponsor, PGX, just go to http://www.PGX.com and go to the program/members area, NEVER will you be asked for credit card info etc…it’s $297 program yours FREE, NO strings attached! It’s also at http://www.vicebustingdiet.com
The book itself is on there too, free to download! English or French!
thanks again!
Julia Havey
http://www.JuliaHavey.com
This book changed my paradigm, it is so simple and yet profound. I highly recommend it. I have lost twenty six pounds, lowered my cholesterol and improved my mental well being. Is it entirely because of the book? I have no doubt!