What??? Huh? Is Janice Taylor, Weight Loss Guru, the voice of Our Lady of Weight Loss, 50-pound big-time-loser, Huffington Post blogger extraordinaire telling us that it's okay to pig out?

Turn "mean-o-pause" into a time of body beauty with these nine tips.

If you're just entering menopause, you might be thinking, is menopausal weight gain a given? What's happening to my body? Why have the Scales of Injustice turned on me? Aren't these supposed to be the best years of...

Just in case you haven't noticed, we have had an unprecedented wet and gray June. Record setting coolness (and not in the beatnik kind of cool way). Gray, 90% of the time; wet 75% of the time! And however wonderful New York City is (and oy boy, is it!), this...

As reports begin to filter in on the behind the scenes life of Michael Jackson, his alleged addiction to Demerol (a narcotic painkiller) and possible cause of death, his rumored marriage to Rwaramba (the children's nanny), the number of plastic surgery procedures undergone, his court appearances regarding his alleged inappropriate...

I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like to be Jon or Kate or one of the eight. The amount of milk and bread consumed daily would be enough to put me over the edge, never mind the noise level, or the stress of living your life...

Food, Inc. is a mind-blowing, stomach-twisting, eye-opening and ultimately heart-breaking film. See it today (Limited engagement at The Film Forum).

Filmmaker Robert Kenner "lifts the veil" on our nation's food industry. Our food supply...

Have you been to see the Calvin Klein billboard displayed on Lafayette and Houston Streets in SoHo (NYC) yet? One thing I know for sure -- it's inescapable!

Unbuttoned, unzipped -- it features a topless young woman, a bare-chested boy and another shirtless male. The models are positioned in what...

While leading an amazing Our Lady of Weight Loss enLIGHTens Workshop, I tossed the following question out to my group. "How do you know when you are sated?"

The question was met with silence and blank stares.

I took in a deep breath and again, thinking that maybe...

A great many of us are chocolate lovers and have been known to indulge and sometimes even over-indulge. One modest square of chocolate leads to another, and while we fight the urge, in the end, we mysteriously find ourselves holding an empty 1-pound box. Remorse sets in followed by self-deprecating...

On Tuesday, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington DC consumer group, announced its 2009 Xtreme Eating Awards. All award-winning dishes were chock-a-bloc with calories, layered with salt, fat, sugar on top of fat, sugar salt, on top of sugar, salt and fat...in other words, bad...

There are a multitude of self-help books in the marketplace that speak to the idea of self-acceptance, self-worth, self-love -- in fact, I've authored two of them! And with that in mind, I have to say that Howard Glasser's new book You Are Oprah: Igniting the Fires of...

Our Lady of Weight Loss, the patron saint of permanent fat removal (she who guides me) takes a light approach to weight loss. It is her mission to make weight loss fun. She asked me to share the following with you. Tips that will up your energy, keep you...

People say that we only get 'what we can handle,' that there are 'lessons to be learned,' and some simply say that God works in mysterious ways.

I'm not so sure about any of that, but what I do know is that when the bottom falls out, when the sky...

As a Life & Wellness Coach and author, I have worked with thousands of people who are searching for their "life happiness." My work is to move them toward their authentic selves, helping them to generate enough happiness to light up all of Las Vegas and Times Square combined!

What...

Losing a substantial amount of weight and gaining it back is very (let me say that again ... VERY...) depressing. I know, because I've done it. Several times. And I also know what it feels like to permanently remove that excess (50 pounds gone for almost 8 years!). There is...

Is Oprah not the best and most master hypnotist ever?

I am coming to you 'live' from Kripalu Yoga & Health where I am leading the most remarkable and enlightening workshop ever (No doubt about it! Testimony to follow at the end of the week!) entitled Into the LITE:...

United Airlines is the latest airline to jump on the anti-fat bandwagon and penalize their overweight passengers by charging them for two seats should they not fit "comfortably" into one. They say that they are doing this because they received 700 complaints last year about overweight passengers.

In my...

My friend and colleague, Susan K. Perry and I were discussing how Bo Obama, the first puppy, rollicks on the White House lawn in a natural state of joy and exuberance with complete abandon; essentially in a constant state of Flow!

Flow is the mental state in which...

... On Obesity

Oh Goody! Just what we needed: another war! There's the War on Terror, War on Poverty, War on Drugs ... and now the War on Obesity!

Governor Paterson announced in a recent press release that he is declaring "War on Obesity."

Governor Paterson, in case...

Top model, former Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover girl, Kathy Ireland, plumped up and packed on 25 pounds "without even knowing it!"

Kathy, like HOLA! I gained 3 pounds last month and could tell immediately; as soon as my 'love muffin' (more than just a top) came peaking out and then...