Our Lady of Weight Loss

Disappointment: The feeling of sadness or displeasure caused by the non-fulfillment of one’s hopes or expectations. While speaking to clients this week, the word ‘disappointment’ reared its head on several occasions. “I am disappointed that I only lost 3/4 of pound this week.” “I am disappointed in myself; I gave into the Cannoli.” We talked…

Dear Our Lady of Weight Loss ~ I just love your humor and creativity!!   I have a question. I was 5′ 4″ and now I am 5′ 2″ and weigh 133 pounds, but I want to get down to what a 5’2″ person weighs. What do you recommend?  ~ B.B. Dear B.B. ~ A couple…

Fennel is an amazing licorice-flavored, crisp and crunchy celery.  I love to add chilled, raw fennel to salads!  Not only does it taste oh so licorice-good, it’s loaded with Vitamin C and Potassium! Fennel and Peppery Strawberry Salad is a positively lovely summer salad.  It’s refreshingly delish and, when plated with panache, it is a…

This week’s GET JIGGY JigSAW Puzzle – BEET of MY HEART – is inspired by my husband’s birthday celebration.  We got together with family and had a juice-off!!! We broke off into teams, went to the local mega-supermarket, and brought home ingredients to juice.  It was sort of like Iron Chef -but not! Anyway, my…

Have you ever wondered what your body might have to say about the way you live your life; more specifically, about the foods that you are stuffing down, down, down into ‘her???’ How often do you listen to your body?  How often do you hear her moan, “I’m stuffed. Stop eating!” but you choose to…

Even thought I know that water is essential to life, that it is key to my health, that it reduces cravings, and that it is a weight loss tool like no other; even though I know that it the most healing, mineral filled elixir ever – the one that comes straight out of your faucet…

  “Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.” ~ Pablo Picasso!!! Hellloooooooo Tushkateers!!! Happy Summer!!! I just realized that today is the Summer Solstice!  (The first cup of coffee is hitting, sloshing through my brain and the brain waves are beginning…

Are Cravings Killing Your Plan??? Our Lady of Weight Loss seriously knows how YOU CAN put an end to it! She’s the patron saint of permanent weight loss!!!  She knows what she is talking about!!! Dear Our Lady of Weight Loss ~ I was sitting at my desk, feeling just fine, thinking about work, and…

This week’s Get Jiggy Weight Loss JigSaw Puzzle honors our Inner Chubby Child. Sometimes we are resistant to doing what we know is good for us.  The ‘inner child’ (in our case, the inner chubby child) starts to stomp her feet and yell, ” No!!! You can’t make me make healthy choices. No!! No! No!!!…

Happy Meatless Monday to you!!!   Did you know that you can improve your personal health and the health of the planet by eating less meat?  Meatless Monday, a non-profit initiative of The Monday Campaigns in association with the Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Healthy, tells us, “By cutting out meat once a week, we…

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