A Tush Kickin' New Year Giveaway - Woo Hoo prizes for three whole months!  Send in your Weighty Confessions - your favorite healthy Righteous Recipes - and/or one of your Creative Acts of Weight Loss! 

THEN your name will be put in a hat and at the end January, February and then March, a winner will be pulled (like a rabbit out of the hat)!   Winner to receive a case of SoLean soy beef or soy pork patties. Any and all who enter, will receive a two-month membership to HeritageCookbook.com!  An opportunity for you to create your very own cookbook!!!!  And all who enter will receive Our Lady of Weight Loss's latest ... 'no food zone' sign!  A sign of the times - for sure. 

All submissions will become property of Our Lady of Weight Loss and may be re-printed in the Kick in the Tush Club newsletter.
Please be sure to put your mailing address on the entries! Platters of gratitude to our generous sponsors ~  SoLean and HeritageCookbook.com!

FYI ... Over 100 letters, recipes, creative acts of weight loss and weighty confessions were sent in by Kick members!  Everyone received a FREE 6-month membership to HeritageCookbook.com.  Be sure to write in this month, too!

Note: Handicaps are earned.  They are for professional ‘dieters’ ONLY.  In order to receive a handicap, you have had to be on at least five diets in your lifetime. (I suspect that qualifies most of us.) 5 different diet plans that you followed for least 5 weeks long.

Instructions:
Step 1:  Total the pounds lost in your last attempt to lose weight over the course of the last five weeks you were on said diet.

Step 2:  Multiply that number by the number of children you have living at home.

Step 3:  If you are living with an adult who insists on eating in front of you and who is insensitive to your weight loss mood swings, factor in an additional point.  If he or she is truly impossible, give yourself another 3 pounds. Add to above number.

Step 4: Multiply that number by 3.

Step 5: Divide by 5. (Slice off fractions, as you would slivers of cake.)

Step 6: For every 10 points, give yourself one handicap point.  Those who have a handicap of 10 or more are called ‘turnips.’ (Thus, the above art in case you were confused.)

How to use your handicap:
The next time someone asks you how much you lost this week, feel free to add your handicap into the equation.  This system should level the field for those who are competing at group meetings, in offices or at home! Or for those who are letting the Scales of Injustice get to them. 

Remember, it's only a number.  Have some fun with it! 

Rinse 2 or 3 turnips, pierce with a fork, and microwave (wet) for 7 minutes. Chop or mash them as you would a boiled potato, drizzle with olive oil, and dust with salt and pepper.

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Turnip Apple Chunks

Ingredients: 2 pounds fresh turnips,  peeled and sliced * 1 fresh apple, peeled and chopped * 1 tablespoon butter * 1 tablespoon sugar * salt and pepper to taste

 
Instructions:  Fill a big pot half full of water.  Add the turnips, apple, sugar, salt and pepper.  Cover the pot and simmer for about 20 minutes, or until the turnip chunks are tender.  Serve hot.  Serves six.

Note:  The secret to this recipe is the apple.  The sugar, by itself makes the turnips better than usual, but the apple flavor gently caresses each chunk of turnip, changing its flavor subtly, but with powerful results. 

Send in your healthy Righteous Recipes!  Win a prize!! (see above Give Away)

Dear Dorothy ~ Well done!  It's so wonderfully positive.  I'm GOOD! Good. gooooodddddd! Thanks! ~ OLofWL

Dear OLofWL ~ In response to Miss Megan's dilemma about being tormented by well meaning people to take something from the goodie plate.  I have a well meaning, lovable sister in law and being a Newfoundlander she always has a kitchen full of fresh baked goods (just in case someone drops in), so when she starts with the " have some cake or do you want a butter tart?" My response is "I want it all honey, but I'll have a yogurt!"  Or - "Can you make me some carrot sticks and celery?" Knowing that she won't be making me anything, she then accepts "No thanx, I'm fine". Sometimes a little intimidation right back at the enabler works beautifully! Have a great day. ~ Susann

Dear Susann ~ Thanks for the intimidating advise.  Love it. There's more way than one to crack a saboteur! ~ OLofWL

Dear OLofWL ~ Thanks to you, Our Lady, and working up a sweat a lot more often in the past 6 weeks than I have in the past 5 yrs, I have a bit of news!!  I have lost TEN pounds since our PLAYshop in January here with you. I'm so tickled, I can't stand it.  My clothes are loosening up, I'm getting more done and life is just ducky. Nobody's really noticed much yet but I have...
 
I've never kept my motivation up so long, to keep going towards my goal, WITHOUT STRUGGLING. Your way is working for me. Especially love the part about not taking it all so serious, and like I can't have my moments of screwing up and getting back on the plan....I might be able to burn more fat faster if I get "stricter" with myself, but I know if I were to try that, I'd probably revert to the bad ass teenage, rebellious loser, and in that, I don't mean weight.  ~ Knoel, Texas
 

Dear Knoel ~ Congratulations on permanently removing 10 pounds of excess weight.  Ten pounds is a lot.  Good for you. I can just imagine what a bad-ass teenager you were. Thanks for writing! ~ OLofWL PS: I'm so pleased that you had a great time at the 'PLAYshop' at the Crossings!  We did have a good time, didn't we? 

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~ Judith Viorst  (from Babz)

I try to be cynical but it's hard to keep up! - Lily Tomlin (from Margaret, S., Concord, MA.)

Biological joke: What's the difference between men and women?  There's a vas defferens!  (from Martha)

What do you call the teacher who kept leaving farts? A private tooter. (from Abigail, Astoria, NY)

If it's not one thing, it's your mother! (from Claire)

Want to Chew the Fat with OLofWL?  Write her!

When I get the urge to eat the entire contents of the kitchen, I pick up my paints instead. I'm slowly painting murals all over the inside walls of my house.  My son asked for a volcano for his room, and he got one!  I've got a "window" in my bedroom that looks out of a space ship at an amazing star-scape.  The warm fuzzies last a lot longer than a box of cookies, too. ~ Kate

 
Wow!  Would sure love to see some photos of your work!  Sounds amazing and way longer lasting than a box of cookies and extraordinarily fulfilling!

What creative act of weight loss have you committed?  Write me!

March 23-25, Northwest Women's Show, Seattle, Washington! Y'all, this is a big deal.  If you're near Seattle come on and hear me speak.  I'm up on the Main Stage for the entire 3 days hangin' with the best of them.  Yeah, Bob Greene and Marianne Williamson.  Come to Seattle.

April 29-May 2 @ Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health - Register NOW!

May 8, Thursday @ Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Palm Beach County, Florida

Check out photos from The Crossings 'playShop.'  We had a blast and everyone left motivated and happy.  And from the St. Lucia Book Club's January 25th gathering.  tapeMeasures bracelets abound.  Thanks all!

Janice Taylor, Weight Loss Coach and author/artist of Our Lady of Weight Loss featured in ... Reuters News Service quotes Janice Taylor, WLC. Funny! fitsugar.com - a very cool website from San Francisco. And ... sEXy EX! a fab blog

Janice is also featured in Health Magazine's Jan/Feb 2007 issue.  Health sought out the top weight-control experts for their #1 tips to get the weight off now. As well as on Eyewitness News, ABC7, NYC!  Woo Hoo!

For other news on Janice and reviews of Our Lady of Weight Loss from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times and many more national publications click here!

If your weight loss chart looks like an EKG, contact Janice Taylor, Weight Loss Coach.

Write me for a free consultation! Ask about my 4-week program.

"When I called on Janice, I had been stuck at the same weight for close to three months.  I had reached that plateau that many reach, where one loses their footing on the road to healthy weight loss. Allowing myself to take a long three month break from my diet when Thanksgiving and Christmas rolled around and I got off track. During the 4 weeks that I worked with Janice, I lost 7 pounds and since then, have been much better adhering to my weight loss plan. Things make sense again.  I felt supported, listened to, and encouraged by our four talks.  It was a gift to myself speaking to Janice and I recommend her coaching to anyone who wants more support and guidance and help." ~ Rosemary R., Greenwich Village

"Janice Taylor has been a truly inspirational weight loss coach. Through her creative insight I have found my "artists' soul", making the journey to my new lifestyle fulfilling and utterly satisfying. And I permanently removed over 40 pounds of excess weight! " L~ Brooklyn. NY

"Janice has 'been there' and knows the struggle. She offers practical suggestions and inspirational guidance. Her sense of humor and high spiritedness put me at east and helped to make weight loss fun!" - Felice, PA.

"I look forward to each session with Janice and feel energized afterward, leaving with constructive suggestions and strategies as to how to deal with situations as well as food. Janice is inspiring and keeps me motivated." - Joyce, CT.

Janice Taylor permanently removed 55 pounds over 5 years ago. If Janice can, you can! Click here for before / after photos.

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