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!

1. Take a hot bath and imagine that the fat cells are melting into the hot water.  Bathtubs are great. When you lie in them, all your fat falls to the side and behind you.  It’s the only place where my stomach is flat!

2. Create a pair of invisible goggles that will obstruct your vision when within 50 feet of a bakery! Yup, they’re invisible – only supply needed is your imagination!*

3. Visit your nearest dog run.  If you don’t have a dog, borrow one.  It’s a great place to meet people!

4. Grow herbs.  An outdoor garden or an indoor garden.  The smell is incredible and using fresh herbs is a heavenly treat.

5. Pull weeds.  If you’ve ever had any kind of garden or yard that was overcome with weeds, you’ll know what I mean when I say that pulling weeds is very satisfying.  Yank out frustration, anger – it’s a good way to get your energy pumping.

6. Mambo Italiano.  Do the mambo to Rosemary Clooney’s rendition.  You’ll burn calories while dancing and you’ll feel happy, too.  Those endorphins will be pumping, wildly!

7. Bowl … put a team together! Design pink jackets and call yourself the OLofWL Lucky Strikes.

8. Read the menu as if it is a poem.  Garlic bread, lightly toasted.  Chocolate meringue for dessert. My tongue licks my lips  - clean. (Then order ‘lite.’)

9. Sing.  Loud! Let your frustrations out while you belt out a song.

10. Dye your hair! Something outrageous. Something bright.  Be bold. 


What Creative Acts of Weight Loss do you commit?  Write me!

Dear Cyn ~ First, Cynthia! BRAVO.  You are working out. That is a major accomplishment. Pat yourself on the back and use it to propel yourself to the next step.  I totally understand your frustrations. You deserve to wake up lighter, but as you can see, exercise alone won't do it. What it boils down to is that you burn more calories than you eat.  Exercise may help you burn a few more calories but it's not going to burn off the entire enchilada.  You should either go to your local weight loss center (a Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers type of place) and see what diet they follow or to your doctor and get a simply 1200 to 1400 calorie per day plan. 

I tell my weight loss coaching clients that unless they're exercising like an athlete, they should consider exercise their insurance policy. It covers that BLTs! (Bites, licks and tastes) that you 'forget' to count.

Here's some information that may help to clear your confusion: A pound is equal to 3,500 calories. In theory, this means that if you want to lose weight you need to cut your calorie intake.  If you were to eat 250 calories less per day, you would lose approximately 1/2 pound per week. A 500 calorie per day cut would help you to permanently remove about 1 pound a week.  This is an approximation, because each body works a little differently.

Even though exercise often doesn't make a dramatic difference on the bathroom scale, it tones, makes you feel happy (releases endorphins), is good for the heart, and clears your head.  So, don't stop exercising.  Keep it up!  You're so much the better for it, and you are burning extra calories, but not enough for it to counteract the way you are eating. 

Lots of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, protein, dairy ... a balanced plan is the way to go!  I hope that helps!  Please say HEY to your mom for me and thank her for spreading the word (and the icing!) ... and thank YOU for writing! Please let us know how it goes. ~ OLofWL with you every inch of the weigh!

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Dear OLofWL ~ I think that people will keep their motivation for resolutions if instead of referring to it as a New Year Resolution thinking of it as A New Life Resolution! Because in fact that is what it is. Small steps to a long term success! - Shannon

Dear Shannon ~ Thank you for your wonderful insight.  It is indeed a new life!  Rejoice! ~ OLofWL

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A Shout Out to MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS ... I've been reading the Kick in the Tush Club sign-up notes and there are a lot of mothers who sent the Kick on to their daughters.  I LOVE that!  What a fun thing to share and so easy, with a click of the 'forward' button.  If mothers & daughters are out there, teaming up together, please let us know. Special prizes for you!!! Be sure to add your mailing address to your emails.  I can't send prizes without the addresses! Write us!

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Want to Chew the Fat with OLofWL?  Write her!

The fun creative part of the healthy me has made a commitment to myself to walk at least 3 miles a week. I live next to a walking trail that is exactly one mile long. To make it fun, I started an on-line -illustrated blog!  I practice mindfulness on my walk and have found it enjoyable and something I look forward to.

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

Janice Taylor, Weight Loss Coach and author/artist of Our Lady of Weight Loss is currently featured in Square Peg People's, The Encourager.  Fun interview!  Are you a square peg person? I do believe Janice is.

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.

"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 50 pounds over 5 years ago. If Janice can, you can! Click here for before / after photos.

 

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