Who Is Julia?

Many years ago, I went through the pain of being 130 pounds overweight. I suffered through the embarrassment, the low self esteem, and the feeling of being out of control. My health was worsening and I didn't have the energy to keep up with my young children or do my job well. I was always tired and felt unattractive, and after I tried and "failed" with just about every diet on the planet, I honestly felt there was something must be wrong with me. I would lose weight here and there, but then gain it all back - often even more each time.

After every diet, I would end up even more discouraged than I had been before. I was uncomfortable in my own skin and was afraid that people would always judge me for what I looked like on the outside rather than who I was on the inside. In fact, I really just wanted my body to match the person I felt like I was on the inside. So, after a long battle, I did something that shocked everybody. I threw everything I had read and learned about dieting out the window.

I had a hunch that there was a different, better, and permanent way to lose weight - and improve my whole life. So I decided to go for it and prove to myself that making just one change to my life would force the weight off of me forever. My hunch worked and I have lost 130 pounds and have kept it off for 12+ years.

I discovered the single secret to weight loss that anybody can use to lose as much weight as they want and keep it off permanently.

Now, I've made my life's purpose to help others like you learn the truth about weight loss so you too can succeed.

I am tired to the diet industry insisting that we can "eat the foods we LOVE" in moderation; I mean think about it; IF we could eat the foods we love in healthful moderation, we wouldn't have an obesity pandemic on our hands! Would we? I don't think it's right.

We compasionately tell an alcoholic or drug addict that they need to abstain from their vices in order to live a life without the comlications and side-effects of their addiction. We don't taunt them with a tease of "just have vodka in moderation" or "On Sundays you can have all the alcohol you want". Yet, these types of plans, i.e. the "diet" plans like Body for Life that irresponsibly direct a food addict to consume, in any quantity, the very foods that got them overweight in the first place! I know what I am talking about.

One of MY best success stories, Valerie tried Body for Life in her desire to get "skinny" for her wedding. She asked me what I thought of it while on the phone when she asked me to be a bridesmaid in her upcoming wedding. I said it was a best seller,seemed successful at helping people get cut, but I didn't think she needed to lose more weight. Despite the fact she was 185 lbs thinner, had endured surgery to remove excess skin and was a stunning size 10, Valerie embarked like many brides do on the 'wedding diet'. Taking Bill's advice, and going against mine, she endulged in her vices on Sunday the first week. Well, by Tuesday the Rally's burger called her name.

With the wedding date approaching I had stopped getting the weekly calls or emails from my friend Val. I began to wonder what I had done to upset her and why she wasn't talking to me. Well, here's what happened.

Within 3 months, this bride-to-be regained 65 lbs. She was so embarrassed and didn't now how to tell me. I arrived to town and she was crying. I LOVE this woman, regardless of a few extra pounds. I can say, I do NOT love Bill Phillips or his Body for Life disservice or "diet" as it's called. The wedding day came and went and the pounds found have indeed become her body for life as she struggles to this day to reclaim her pre-diet figure!

Stories like that, along with many of my own from my years of failed dieting have made me upset, frustrated and well, as Dr. Oz called me on his Oprah & Friends XM show, an Obesity activist! I KNOW that Vice Busting is the solution to the Obesity crisis and now, I am on a mission to do something about it!

A few of my recent achievements in putting an end to obesity include:

Awaken the Diet Within, Warner Books (Reached #10 on Amazon.com)
The Vice-Busting Diet book, a St. Martin's release
CBN.com (Weight Loss Motivator contributor)
Oprah & Friends XM Radio, guest with Dr. Oz
Oprah & Friends XM Radio, guest with Bob Greene
eDiets.com's Master Motivator, 1999-2006
ABCNews/Time Magazine Obesity Summit

That's a little bit about who I am. And, unless you enjoy yo-yoing with your weight or paying for the same programs and diets over and over again, then my free Vice Busting Diet Plan is the only one for you! Go to www.PGX.com to get yours today! (if the server is overloaded you may get an ERROR message, be patient, try in a few minutes...helping 1 million people has it's unforeseen tech issues! I apologize!)

And, since my life is an open book, literally, please allow the mother in me to share with you too!

This is my beautiful daughter's story: Renee Blair

and how 'HE took the wheel' and saved her!