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!  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 ... a 'no food zone' sign!  A sign of the times - for sure. 

AND 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.

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1. To stop comparing myself to starlets who are twenty years old.
2. To stop thinking about dinner while I’m still eating lunch.
3. To stand on the scales of injustice without going postal.
4. To stop feeling sorry for myself.  Having a fat tush isn’t the worst fate (is it?).
5. To stop blaming the dry cleaners for my pants being tight.
6. To stop buying the Twinkies for the kids (I confess, they’re for me).
7. To stop beating myself up for each and every food transgression, large or small.
8. To stop saying incredulously, “but I only had one spoonful” when I know full well the spoon I used was a ladle.  
9. To stop looking for a magic bullet in the form of a pill.
10.  To just plain STOP.

What's your resolution? Write janice@ourladyofweightloss.com

Ingredients:

Dried figs (about 1 cup)
Sweet wine (about 1/2 cup)
2 tablespoons honey
1 cup part-skim ricotta
1 teaspoon sugar (your choice real, fake, a blend or otherwise)
1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions: Combine figs, wine and honey in small saucepan. Bring to boil, reduce to simmer, stirring here and there until the figs are soft and the wine syrupy (mmmmmmm). (About 20 minutes or so.) * While simmering, in a small bowl, mix together the ricotta, sugar and vanilla. You only need a smidgen of both. Divide mixture into four cups (4 servings) and top with fig mixture!

It's great warm.  But I had some leftover and put it in the fridge and enjoyed it equally the next day.  While some eat this as a dessert, I had it for lunch (fruit, protein and wine - well balanced I thought!).

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

Dear OLofWL ~ A couple of weeks ago, I was feeling low, so I ordered Our Lady of Weight Loss (the book) on Amazon as a Christmas present from me TO me.  I received it this week and have nearly finished reading it.  I LOVE it. Thank you SO MUCH!!!
 
The point that hit home the most was the chapter on Willpower vs Want Power.  No one had ever explained it in that way before, and I had such an epiphany.  After years of beating myself up for not having any willpower, finally, a solution that makes sense and is practical.  It's not about what you will, it's about what you want.  If we WANT it enough, and take the action to get what we want, then it WILL happen. My daughters and I are going shopping for Our Lady Macaroni Altar supplies this week!  Thanks for the inspiration ~ Christy

Dear Christy ~ You got it!!!  There ain't no such thing as willpower.  Glad you're making macaroni altars instead of beating yourself up.  Much better way to spend your time! Keep up the good work.  We're cheering for you. And Thank YOU for your support.  Greatly appreciated. ~ OLofWL

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