Healthy Tipping Point: A Powerful Program for a Stronger, Happier You [Paperback]

Caitlin Boyle (Author)

Book Description

Release date: May 1, 2012

Start small for big results with this inspiring guide to lifelong wellness—from popular health blogger and author of Operation Beautiful.

In Healthy Tipping Point, Caitlin Boyle shares the down-to-earth philosophy and authoritative advice that has made her websites so popular. Believing that reaching a tipping point means much more than tipping the scales, Boyle helps readers find their personal ideal balance in food, fitness, love, and life, in a breakthrough program organized around three shifts:

• Get Real: Challenge negative-thought patterns to create space for success

• Eat Clean: Ditch conventional “diet” advice and follow a simple eating plan tailored to keep energy high, while helping the environment—including forty-five delicious vegetarian recipes for foodies on the go

• Embrace Strength: Commit to a high-powered fitness program designed to help one learn to love exercise and build a strong, lean body—with targeted guidance for novice runners, bikers, swimmers, and others

Featuring twenty inspiring success stories and photos of people who have transformed their lives, the book proves that a healthy body is absolutely attainable. Healthy living and a healthy self-image go hand in hand. For anyone who struggles to get fit, Healthy Tipping Point provides the drive to thrive.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Caitlin Boyle is the editor of operationbeautiful.com and writes a daily food and fitness blog, Healthy Tipping Point, which garner more than 520,000 hits per month combined. For five years, she served as a contributing columnist for The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Avery Trade; 1 edition (May 1, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583334963
• ISBN-13: 978-1583334966
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #432,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Caitlin Boyle, the blogger behind www.HealthyTippingPoint.com and www.OperationBeautiful.com, began blogging in 2008. Caitlin had worked as a freelance writer and technical writer for seven years, but in September 2009, she resigned from her corporate job to write a book based on Operation Beautiful.

Caitlin writes a daily food and fitness blog, Healthy Tipping Point, which chronicles how Caitlin balances her busy lifestyle with healthy eating and exercise. Readers relate to her "Everywomen" experiences and enjoy her 5K, 10K, and Half Marathon race recaps. Caitlin utilizes her personal blog as a way to encourage other women to stay healthy and active and seeks to remind readers that there the "healthy ideal" looks different for every woman.

Operation Beautiful originally began on Healthy Tipping Point. In June 2009, Caitlin was inspired to post a note that simply read "You Are Beautiful!" in a public restroom. She took a picture of her note and posted it on Healthy Tipping Point. The response from her readers was instantaneous, and Caitlin's e-mail was flooded with photographs of notes posted all over the country. Within two days, Caitlin knew she had a phenomenon on her hands and launched the blog Operation Beautiful.

Caitlin is 26 years old and lives in Orlando, Florida with her husband and her two dogs. In addition to blogging, her other writing experience includes a five-year stint as a contributing columnist for The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition. Caitlin attended the University of Pittsburgh and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Non-Fiction Creative Writing.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste you money/time August 14, 2012

By Coco

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

The author is not an expert in any of the fields where she offers her opinion however valuable it may be.
Like other books, it offers "researched facts" with only half the real facts. She tries to prove her life choices are the "educated choice", yet she doesn't have the guts to be open about it like "the skinny bitch" authors do.
It is a good attempt at some guidelines for completely lost people, nothing more.

Lost all respect for her work since all the good reviews were written one after the other and by people who coincidentally also gave her previous work 5 stars.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing October 25, 2012

By Christina Hayes

Format:Paperback

I enjoy the Healthy Tipping Point blog, but this book was a big disappointment. First of all, it's LONG- I'm a big reader but it's a lot of pages and the print is really tiny. That wouldn't be a bad thing if the content were compelling, but it's not.
I like the idea of a healthy tipping point- you make small changes and they make you feel so good that you make more and more- but the book is definitely not structured around that idea. Instead, it's a collection of loosely organized and fairly repetitive diet and exercise advice, most of which you'd know if you've read a few women's health magazines. Moreover, the advice only really applies to those who share the same diet and exercise interests as the author: the underlying message of the food portion is 'you don't have to be a vegetarian, but if you're not just be aware that you're torturing animals and destroying the environment', and the exercise is mostly geared to running and triathlons. Finally, there are lots of grammar errors. The most prevalent is mis-matched pronouns, like "Anyone who makes this change will see their lives improve". Not a huge deal, but it shows me the publisher just wanted to get a book out and make a few bucks capitalizing on the blog, and didn't bother with copy-editing.

50 of 64 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother. May 1, 2012

By David

Format:Paperback

I received this e-book as a gift today...you might as well read the free blog.

The author is not an expert in any of the fields and this is a collection of stories and anecdotes. Save your money and invest in a book from someone who's gone to school in the subjects.