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The Miracle of Music: from weight loss to the common cold
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Janice Taylor, Editor
Did you know that music activates the same feel good center of your brain that food does? It’s true! Listen to music: Lose weight. (Wow, that was easy!) And … there’s more . . . Fight Off the Common Cold: Listening to music lowers the stress hormone cortisol, boosts the feel-good endorphins and fortifies the…
Weighty Confession: Vitamin C as Sweet Tarts or Expensive Urine
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Janice Taylor, Editor
Forgive Me for I Have Sinned It’s true. Me, Queen of Permanent Fat Removal, was overtaken by a container of chewable Vitamin C. Knowing that there are experts who feel that taking more than 140 milligrams per day of Vitamin C is ‘safe,’ because for the most part, more than that amount results in urine…
A Hump Wednesday Laugh: Falling Down
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Janice Taylor, Editor
Further my Monday’s rant on my inability to find a place in my neighborhood that can make me a poached egg, I came across “Falling Down – I Want Breakfast,” a clip from the movie “Falling Down” starring Michael Douglas. It really made me laugh. How many of us feel like this when we go…
It’s a BMW Monday: Bitch, Moan and Whine
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Janice Taylor, Editor
I only just heard someone use the phrase BWM this past week, and I took to it like white on rice. In my humble opinion, we are all entitled to at least one BMW per day. I invite you to take this opportunity to get whatever is on your chest, off your chest. Go for…
Sunday Puzzle: How Long Are Your Roots?
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Janice Taylor, Editor
The moso is a bamboo plant that grows in China and the far east. After the moso is planted, no visible growth occurs for up to five years – even under ideal conditions! Then, as if by magic, it suddenly begins growing at the rate of nearly two and one half feet per day, reaching…
Skin Me Five
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Janice Taylor, Editor
<img alt="ART%20Skin%20Me%20Five2.jpg" src="http://blog.beliefnet.com/ourladyofweightloss/ART%20Skin%20Me%20Five2.jpg" width="252" height="206" style="float:left;margin:5px;" Beliefnet designed the most amazingly fantastic skin for my home Our Lady of Weight Loss page. It's fabulous!!! I hope you will visit my OurLadyofWeightLoss page and feel free to use the same skin. And speaking of skin (this is the way my brain works … it’s one big…
A Hump-Day Tune followed by a platter of linguine! (who could resist?)
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Janice Taylor, Editor
Here follows one of my favorite Hump-Day Combos. I LOVE this video. If it doesn’t make you smile and shake your booty, I’ll eat my linguine! Speaking of which, this linguine recipe is comfort food at its best. Delicious, low-fat, low-cal, healthy, colorful – and – a celebration that we’ve made it 1/2 way through…
Weighty Confession: Carrot cake is a vegetable, no?
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Janice Taylor, Editor
Dear Our Lady of Weight Loss, Forgive Me for I Have Sinned I don’t know how it happened. Seriously! I had one paper-thin sliver of carrot cake (a vegetable, no less!). And the next thing you know, I was like off to the races. Bam, POW, rational thinking down the drain. I sit here before…
Sunday’s Puzzle & Recipe: Queen of Hearts Loves Her Tarts (and Dirt Cake, too!)
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Janice Taylor, Editor
We are off to visit my mother, Queen of Hearts today; she who loves her tarts and has spent a lifetime pondering the existential question, “What is the point of having coffee without cake?” Here follows a ‘lower-cal’ recipe that is BIG time FUN for the kids and the grown-ups! Our Lady of Weight Loss…
How Ill-Mannered Are You?
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Janice Taylor, Editor
After I did a bit of research on etiquette, I was shocked to learn that my family is made up of a bunch of ill-mannered heathens. And, if I were to be perfectly honest, I’d have to say that I’m in violation myself and therefore, not a candidate of the Emily Post Manner Award. How…
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