Examining those Pesky Vices

Julia Harvey (pictured here) used to be a 290 pound single mother. She went on to lose 130 pounds and has kept the weight off for over ten years.

She's just published her second book, The Vice-Busting Diet: A 12-Week Plan to Break Your Worst Food Habits and Change Your Life Foreverand it promises to be an interesting read.

Instead of prescribing a rigid diet with only certain foods, she discusses how it's more effective in losing weight in the long run to examine our vices and let go of these. For example, a very common vice for people is soda or soft drinks. Some people drink three or more liters a day. It is quite easy to lose weight if one can only drop a vice such as this. Other common 'vices' are fast food and television.

Her book focuses on a 12-week plan for eradicating your vices. It also includes an exercise plan and a nutritious recipes section.