7 Simple Steps to a Healthier You: A Busy Woman's Guide to Living Well [Paperback]

Dawn Hall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2006

Creator of the popular Busy People’s Cookbooks (more than 750,000 copies sold) and author of Comfort Food for Your Soul Dawn Hall offers inspiration, guidance, and sure–fire, simple steps for people on the go who are ready to embrace a healthy lifestyle.

Simple chapters guide readers on a journey to physical, emotional, and spiritual fitness. Dawn provides firsthand advice for handling weight issues, hectic schedules, unhealthy behaviors, and the hurdle of excuses as she shares

• why healthy living starts with a simple choice
• choosing the best food and exercise plan for you
• meal plans and recipes to be successful

For many, this will be the book that ultimately turns their desire for change into a changed life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (January 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736913351
• ISBN-13: 978-0736913355
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,149,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Our family's personal story of triumph over tragedy is used to give God all the praise and glory with the hope that readers will feel encouraged, inspired, refreshed; and that they too can overcome the unthinkable.

Points:
1) God can do far greater things through you than you have ever thought of, dreamed of, or imagined if you allow God and His will to be #1 in your life;
2) Thankfulness is an attitude you choose to have;
3) God still does miracles;
4) All things are possible - even what appears to be the impossible is possible;
5) Keep your eyes totally focused on God lest you become overwhelmed and depressed.

Sit back, laugh and relax while reading this amazing and true story behind the success of award winning author and inspirational speaker, Dawn Hall. With humor, energy and insight she shares her most intimate and personal details of how she triumphed over such tragedies as her husband's brain cancer, two house fires, financial bondage, depression, fighting the government, and the loss of her loving 38 year old husband. "I am an ordinary woman whom God has done extraordinary things through, far greater than I have ever hoped of, dreamed of or imagined! If God can do it through me, He can do it through you, too!"

Without knowing how to type, use a computer or anything about publishing Dawn Hall sold over 650,000 of her self-published cookbooks and won three national awards including 1996, 1998 Best Cookbooks of the Year award by North American Book Dealers exchange, 2000 Pinnacle award. Her amazing story of triumphing over tragedies such as cancer, financial bondage, two house fires and her young husband's death is proof that God is still doing miracles. Her faith, and persistence not to give up trying, is a source of hope, strength and encouragement to anyone who has ever felt down, discouraged, in financial bondage or has been fighting cancer and struggling in life.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good read!, February 23, 2006

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Armchair Interviews (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 7 Simple Steps to a Healthier You: A Busy Woman's Guide to Living Well (Paperback)

In 7 Simple Steps to a Healthier You, writer Dawn Hall offers the reader a quick and simple guide for living a healthier, more balanced life. With heart, empathy and encouragement, she challenges us to stop making excuses to avoid exercising, eating right, taking time for ourselves, and spiritual reflection. And then she invites us to join her in discovering a healthier, more balanced life.

This book is the result of the author's own personal journey of being "born a weight watcher" and the "largest in her class" to mastering her challenge to stay healthy while leading an active, busy life. In 7 Simple Steps, Hall shares our concerns that it is not easy to live a healthy life and ignore all the excuses that ring out in our heads and sabotage our hard work.

Hall provides, instead, easy-to-manage strategies to shape our thinking and choices for a lifetime rather than just a short-term weight reducing diet. She encourages a comprehensive, lifetime approach that includes visualizing a satisfied life, introspection to understand what gets in the way of living healthy, and prayer to achieve lasting results.

In Step One, we begin on the roadmap for success with a thought-provoking question. "Was there a point in time when you stopped caring for yourself?" Through the next six steps, Hall invites us care for ourselves more and change our relationship with food, eat intentionally by keeping it smart and simple, exercise, de-clutter our life, get spiritually fit, and commit to a new lifestyle.

To help the reader reinforce these concepts, Hall provides a template for building a "Personal Plan for a Healthier Me." Through self-reflection and committing thoughts and intentions to paper, the reader ends up with their own, customized Plan.

What distinguishes this book from other diet books or self-help books is the author's own journey and what seems to be her sincere desire to broaden the definition of overall health--not just be focused on losing weight. It is about changing our perspective in order to change long-held habits with intention.

Armchair Interviews says: The power in this book comes from its simplicity and understanding of women and their conflicting priorities and roles. What is obvious is that Hall "gets it" and that it takes more than good intentions or willpower. The measure of a truly healthy life comes from how you feel physically, spiritually and emotionally.