{"id":487,"date":"2009-07-28T13:27:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/2009\/07\/more-to-love-empower-or-exploi.html"},"modified":"2009-07-28T13:27:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:27:47","slug":"more-to-love-empower-or-exploi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2009\/07\/more-to-love-empower-or-exploi.html","title":{"rendered":"More to Love: Empower or exploit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"janice before-after postcard copy.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/100\/import\/janice%20before-after%20postcard%20copy.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"146\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\">Our Lady of Weight Loss<\/a>, the patron saint of permanent fat removal, wonders, &#8220;Will Fox&#8217;s new TV show, &#8220;More to Love,&#8221; exploit or empower women?  &#8216;Tune in&#8217; tomorrow to read her always honest and to the point review, hot off the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/kickinthetushclub\">Kick in the Tush Club<\/a> press.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\">Our Lady of Weight Loss<\/a>,  eagerly awaits tonight&#8217;s Fox premiere of <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5323885\/more-to-love-the-pros--cons\">More to Love<\/a>,&#8221;<\/strong> a television show that was inspired by the success of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/bachelor\/index?pn=index\">Bachelor<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/2009\/05\/biggest-loser-winner-helen-phi.html\">The Biggest Loser.<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nOLofWL is curious to &#8216;meet&#8217; the 20 contestants that Fox Television has cast as &#8216;real women.&#8217;  What does a &#8216;real woman&#8217; look like?  How does a &#8216;real woman&#8217; talk, walk, and act?  Is this show really &#8216;for the rest of us?&#8217;   Where are these women from and what do they do for a living?  I mean, how &#8216;regular&#8217; are they?  Are they pretty or plain?  What does a non-traditional attractive person look like?<br \/>\nWill it be tacky? Or moving?  Will OLofWL feel for those who have never gone on a date, a second date? Will the producers of the show empower these women or exploit them?  How many tears will be shed?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourladyofweightloss.com\">Our Lady of Weight Loss<\/a> wonders about Luke Conley, the 330 pound real estate developer.  Does he deserve their love?<br \/>\nWho are the sponsors?  How many food commercials will be thrust upon us?<br \/>\nAnd finally, is this show really worth a full hour of our time?<br \/>\n<strong>More Reality TV:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/2009\/07\/fat-tv-dance-your-ass-off.html\">Dance Your A** Off<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/2009\/06\/is-the-biggest-loser-making-us.html\">Is the BIGGEST LOSER making us fat<\/a>?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/2009\/05\/a-reduction-sauce-of-undying-l.html\">Undying Love: Tori and Dean<\/a><br \/>\nSpread the word &#8230; NOT the icing,<br \/>\nJanice<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nFollow Janice on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/OurLady\">Twitter<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php#\/profile.php?sid=d82081eb96fa8033ec096ad6ccfd2b0a&amp;id=557881698&amp;hiq=janice%2Ctaylor\">Facebook<\/a>!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourladyofweightloss.com\">Janice Taylor is a Life &amp; Wellness Coach, specializing in weight loss, reinvention, transformation &amp; happiness<\/a>, author, seminar leader and 50-pound-BIG-Time-LOSER!  <a href=\"mailto:janice@ourladyofweightloss.com\"><strong>Write Janice<\/strong><\/a> for an Introductory Coaching Session.<br \/>\nFor more motivation and inspiration, join the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/kick_in_the_tush_club\">Kick in the Tush Club<\/a>: Beliefnet Chapter.<br \/>\nPick up a copy of Janice&#8217;s latest: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/All-Forgiven-Move-Fat-Burning-Sveltesville\/dp\/014200524X\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1197052667&amp;sr=1-1\">All Is Forgiven, Move ON ~ Our Lady of Weight Loss&#8217;s 101 Fat-Burning Steps on Your Journey to Sveltesville<\/a>!<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Janice Taylor is a certain kind of kooky genius ~ see if her idiosyncratic diet plan will work for you.&#8221; ~ O, The Oprah Magazine<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourladyofweightloss.com\/motivation\/coach.asp\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ART heart.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/100\/import\/ART%20heart.jpg\" width=\"34\" height=\"34\" class=\"mt-image-left\" \/><\/span> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourladyofweightloss.com\/motivation\/coach.asp\"> about Janice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lady of Weight Loss, the patron saint of permanent fat removal, wonders, &#8220;Will Fox&#8217;s new TV show, &#8220;More to Love,&#8221; exploit or empower women?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,177,3,60],"tags":[3853,3836,3820,3833,3826,3827,76,3834,3825,1246,8,3837,163],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity-weight","category-healthy-living","category-motivation","category-our-lady-of-weight-loss","tag-celebrity-weight","tag-diet-tips","tag-happiness","tag-healthy-living","tag-janice-taylor","tag-kick-in-the-tush-club","tag-lose-weight","tag-mental-health","tag-our-lady-of-weight-loss","tag-reality-tv","tag-weight-loss-coach","tag-weight-loss-motivation","tag-wellness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>More to Love: Empower or exploit? 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