Julia Griggs Havey
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Julia Havey, 2005
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| Born | 1962 Colorado Springs |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | The Vice Busting Diet Awaken the Diet Within |
Julia Griggs Havey (born 1962) is an American author of several diet books, written after her experience fighting obesity.
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Biography
She was born in Colorado Springs, 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 Vietnam War. She and her mother would stay up late into the night, watching the news from Vietnam, and eating ice cream to improve their mood.
Havey attended Parkway Central High School, graduating in 1980 and then going on to the University of Missouri, studying communications and journalism. She left college in 1984 to work for TWA as a flight attendant until 1989. Maintaining her weight at the required 125 pounds was difficult, and she often resorted to purging before weight checks.[1]
She met her 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.[2] After divorcing from him in 1994, she made a series of lifestyle changes and went on to lose 130 pounds. 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.[3] She went on to write, self-publish several diet books describing her weight-loss regimen, as well as her autobiographical Awaken the Diet Within, which was published by Warner Books 2001 and "The Vice Busting Diet" was published by St. Martin's Press. In 1999, she entered and won the "Mrs. Missouri" pageant.[4]
She worked as a "Master Motivator" for the diet-loss website eDiets.com, writing a weekly column from 1999-2006.[5] In January 2007, she was interviewed by Dr. Mehmet Oz on XM satellite radio's "Oprah and Friends"[6]
She currently lives in Nashville, TN with her two children, writes for CBN.com and Diet.com and serves on the board of Turn the Tide Foundation founded by Dr. David L. Katz to fight childhood obesity.[7] http://www.turnthetidefoundation.org/about.htm
In January 2011, Havey launched a new campaign to help end obesity for one million people, giving out free diet plans.[8]
Works
- The Easiest Diet I Never Went On
- Take Control Recipes
- The Vice Busting Diet (St. Martin's Press) ISBN 0-312-34836-3
http://www.amazon.com/The-Vice-Busting-Diet-12-Week-Forever/dp/0312348363/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2
- Awaken the Diet Within (Warner Books) ISBN 0-446-69122-4
References
- ↑ "I Lost It," 2004 profile on Discovery Health Channel
- ↑ Profile at juliahavey.com
- ↑ "Now She Has Her Dream Body!", July 1, 1997, Woman's World
- ↑ Mrs. United States 1999 contestants
- ↑ eDiets website
- ↑ The Vice Busting Diet debuts on Oprah & Friends XM radio, January 6, 2007, commonvoice.com
- ↑ Job change press release from Havey's blog
- ↑ http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110104/LIFE03/101040306/Free-diet-helps-people-kick-unhealthy-habits[dead link]
http://www.hawthornedirect.com/past_press_releases/2002/pr20020614_13.html Timothy R _Hawthorne
