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| '''Julia Griggs Havey''' (b. 1962) is an author of several diet books written after her experience fighting ]. | |||
| ==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
| Julia Griggs Havey suffered from significant weight gain incurred during a pregnancy and suffered thereafter from ]. After divorcing her husband, she went on to lose 130 pounds and sent her story to a magazine, ''Woman's World''. | |||
| She was born in ], to Colonel Leonard L. Griggs, Jr. and Virginia Spicer. Her weight problem started when she was 11-years-old, while her father was on duty in the ]. She and her mother would stay up late into the night, watching the news from Vietnam, and eating ice cream to improve their mood. | |||
| She went on to write and self-publish several diet books describing her weight-loss regimen. ''Awaken the Diet Within'' was eventually bought and distributed by ]. She is currently a motivator at a diet-loss website, eDiets.com | |||
| Havey attended ], graduating in 1980 and then going on to the ], studying communications and journalism. She left college in 1984 to work for ] as a ] until 1989. Maintaining her weight at the required 125 pounds was difficult, and she often resorted to ] before weight checks. <ref>"I Lost It," 2004 profile on ]</ref> | |||
| ==Bibliography== | |||
| She met her first husband, a union representative, during an airline strike. They married in 1986, but her weight further increased during her pregnancy with her daughter, from 175 to 260 pounds. They later had a second child, a son. At the time of his birth, Havey, at age 32, weighed 290 pounds. Shortly after that she learned that her husband was having an affair.<ref></ref> After separating from him in 1994, she went on a diet and lost 130 pounds, then dating Dr. J. Patrick Havey, who she married in 1996. She sent her story to ''Woman's World'' magazine, which published it in 1997 under the title "Now She Has Her Dream Body!" and launched her writing career.<ref>"Now She Has Her Dream Body!", July 1, 1997, ''Woman's World''</ref> She went on to write and self-publish several diet books describing her weight-loss regimen, with her most successful book being ''Awaken the Diet Within,'' which was bought and distributed by ]. In 1999, she entered and won the "Mrs. Missouri" pageant. | |||
| ⚫ | * ''The Vice Busting Diet'' (St. Martin's Press) ISBN 0312348363 | ||
| ⚫ | * ''Awaken the Diet Within'' (Warner Books) ISBN 0446691224 | ||
| ==External links== | |||
| She worked as a "Master Motivator" for the diet-loss website eDiets.com, writing a weekly column from 1999-2006.<ref></ref> In January 2007, she was interviewed by Dr. ] on ]'s "]"<ref>, January 6, 2007, commonvoice.com</ref> | |||
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| She currently lives in ], and works as an expert for SparkPeople.com.<ref></ref> | |||
| ==Works== | |||
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| * ''The Easiest Diet I Never Went On'' | |||
| * ''Take Control Recipes'' | |||
| ⚫ | * ''The Vice Busting Diet'' (St. Martin's Press) ISBN |
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| ⚫ | * ''Awaken the Diet Within'' (Warner Books) ISBN |
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| ==Notes== | |||
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| * "Pound for pound, must read diet books", January 2003, '']'' | |||
| * ''Woman's World'', September 10, 2004 | |||
| * ''Woman's World'', November 1, 2005 | |||
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Revision as of 15:21, 14 February 2007
Julia Griggs Havey (b. 1962) is an author of several diet books written after her experience fighting obesity.
Biography
Julia Griggs Havey suffered from significant weight gain incurred during a pregnancy and suffered thereafter from clinical obesity. After divorcing her husband, she went on to lose 130 pounds and sent her story to a magazine, Woman's World.
She went on to write and self-publish several diet books describing her weight-loss regimen. Awaken the Diet Within was eventually bought and distributed by Warner Books. She is currently a motivator at a diet-loss website, eDiets.com
Bibliography
- The Vice Busting Diet (St. Martin's Press) ISBN 0312348363
- Awaken the Diet Within (Warner Books) ISBN 0446691224