Motivational Musing ~

Glue Gun Sally Takes On the Saboteur

While traveling the Rocky Road to Sveltesville, you are sure to encounter a saboteur or two.  A saboteur is a person who, intentionally or not, tries to sabotage your efforts toward your weight loss goal.

What to do?  Stay focused. 

Perhaps the saboteur in question is just plain jealous that you’re losing weight (and they're not).  Maybe the saboteur is coming from a place of fear.  As you change, he or she may feel confused or even rejected.

Even if the saboteur acts out of innocence, it can still put a dent in your plan.  It’s difficult to stay strong in the face of a sulking friend who just doesn’t understand why you can’t go out for pizza just this one time, or why you won’t have a slice of their birthday cake.

I do admire Glue Gun Sally’s spunk and resolve (you go, girl!), but it’s probably not the best idea to glue the saboteur’s gift to his desk.  Here follows a couple of levelheaded ideas on what to do when the saboteur in your life surfaces.

• Counteract the negative with a huge platter of the postive. Seek hopeful and helpful support. Call a friend, go on-line and check in on your favorite Internet weight loss message board - or send an email to Our Lady of Weight Loss. (She loves mail.)

•  If a friend or family member suggests that you are losing too much weight (oh - they will, trust me), kindly reassure him or her that you are on a balanced and healthy food plan. 

• If your partner/spouse is concerned that you’re going to leave him or her when the new you fully emerges, you can explain that dietary changes only change the way you eat and look - they do not change the way you feel.  Love is love - fat or thin.

• Enlist the saboteur.  Have a 'heart-to-heart' talk and tell him or her that you’re really serious about losing weight and you need their support. Be clear and specific in your needs.

•  Be patient with those around you.  It takes time, but they will eventually settle down, and perhaps even follow your good example.  Be prepared to share your delicious low-cal, low-fat Our Lady approved food!

• When all else fails, tell whomever it is that is pushing the pizza or cake on you that you have developed allergies, and should have even one bite, they may have to call an ambulance!

 

Halloween Candy Calorie Chart Sure to Haunt You! One ounce of candy corn has 105 calories. One Snickers fun size has 95 calories. One Reese’s cup has 90 calories. One York Peppermint Pattie has 140 calories. One Kit-Kat snack size has 80 calories. One Twizzler stick about 30 calories per stick. A cup of M&M’s about 850 calories.

 

LINKS:
Is the White House haunted? You decide!
Where do Jack-O-Lanterns come from? A frighteningly wonderful tale.

 

PERSONAL JOURNAL LADY LUCK - Holy inspiration! by Stephanie Sloane ... Read on.

The Ten Commandments of Permanent Fat Removal as seen on Good Morning America! * * * Is there a KICK in the Tush Club in your area? Could be!

 

 

 

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Righteous Recipe ~ Acorn Apple Squash - A Sweet Autumn Side.

Ingredients: Two medium sized acorn squash Three large Rome apples (peeled, cored and cut into bite sized pieces) 1/2 cup raisins 1 tablespoon allspice 1/4 cup honey 1/2 cup water

Instructions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place acorn squash in pan and bake for about 2 hours (until the insides are extremely soft and the outside very charred and separating from the skin). In separate two quart pan, combine water, apples, raisins and allspice and cook over low flame until softened. Cut acorn squash, scoop out seeds and spoon out squash into a big mixing bowl. Add raisins and apples and gently fold. Place mixture in baking pan and drizzle honey over the top of it. Bake at 400 degrees before you serve for a couple of minutes. Serve HOT. ... or (I just had the leftovers for breakfast - VERY COLD and Delicious!)

Want to whip up another dish?
Send Our Lady your favorite recipe! Keep them easy, low-cal and FUN.

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Fruitful Contest - Why are orange and black Halloween's official colors? The 34th to enlighten ... wins a prize! Write Our Lady.


Last week's Fruitful query: TRUE or FALSE? Restaurants use orange color for their interiors, and often a red color table cloth to increase customers appetite.
The answer is: TRUE. The winner is Diane G., Montreal.

JOIN now! It's fun, fab and FREE.

Lori K. writes , "Yes, it's true that restaurants use orange and red as a way to get patrons to eat fast and leave!  There's a branch of psychology devoted to studying the effects colors have on everyone. FYI:  The "best" color is yellow -- it makes everyone feel happy and restful! Yours in the weight loss journey."

Amy N. tells us, " It also encourages customers to leave more quickly when done, freeing space for more customers."

Brenda O. says, " My dining room at home is dark red, perhaps a bad choice since I'm forever dieting.  Still, we hardly ever actually eat in there."

Heather points out, "True. For example: McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's...."

Write Our Lady.

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Chewing the Fat - How you doin'? Write Our Lady.
If you've written and your letter has not been published, it's probably coming down the pike and will be in next week's KICK or the week after! NOTE: If your letter and/or Weighty Confession and/or Righteous Recipe are published, you will receive an Our Lady of Weight Loss prize! Be sure to send your mailing address with your email.

Dear OLofWL, "October Orange" (last week's KICK) is one of your best columns and artwork yet. Your marriage of modern with biblical renaissance continues to delight and strengthen. How marvelous that you have found your path in life and chose to take it! ~ Darlene, St. Augustine, Fl.

Dear Darlene, I feel so blessed to have actually found a path to follow. Believe me - it was some circuitous route! Nevertheless, worth the wait as Our Lady has brought so many wonderful people into my life - yourself included. Thank you! ~ OLofWL

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Dear OLofWL, I thought you would get a kick out of my childhood quirk. When I was in fifth grade, I decided that I was going to eat only orange foods. It was fun and there really are alot of orange foods. I lasted about two months on my "Orange only " diet. To this day, I laugh when I eat orange foods thinking of the girl I was. By the way, I still like orange foods. I think tonight I will have a baked yam, carrot sticks, cheddar cheese, peaches, and orange pekoe tea to drink. Yummy! ~ Storyweaver Jan, Dallas, TX.

Dear Storyweaver, Oh yes, I did get a KICK out of that one. Right up my orange alley. Thanks for sharing your delightful and delicious childhood story. ~ OLofWL

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Dear OLofWL, I loved your 'story' in Personal Journey! Life is stories waiting to be told. And it is way cool that you answer your e-mails!!! Thanks for the weekly kick in the tush. ~ Deb, Goshen, IN

Dear Deb, Lady Luck was a fun story. I was so happy that Personal Journey included a few pieces of my favorite Our Lady art. And yes - I do my best to answer all emails, because I truly love hearing from everyone. You all keep me going. Thank YOU. ~ OLofWL

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