{"id":6379,"date":"2015-06-19T17:10:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T21:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2015-06-19T17:10:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T21:10:58","slug":"weighty-confession-pass-the-yankee-doodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2015\/06\/weighty-confession-pass-the-yankee-doodle.html","title":{"rendered":"Weighty Confession:  Pass the Yankee Doodle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4176\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/files\/2012\/10\/Fat-Suit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4176\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/100\/2012\/10\/Fat-Suit-164x300.jpg\" alt=\"Step Out of Your Fat Suit! - contact Janice Taylor, Life and Wellness Coach, Guided Image Innovator, Weight Loss Artist, Author, Positarian\" width=\"264\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Step Out of Your Fat Suit! &#8211; contact Janice Taylor, Life and Wellness Coach, Guided Image Innovator, Weight Loss Artist, Author, Positarian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Dear Our Lady of Weight Loss,\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>My sins are two-fold &#8212; in thought and in deed.<\/p>\n<p>For close to a half a century <em>(give or take a couple of decades, if you will), <\/em>I have mercilessly beaten myself up each and every time I took even one bite of the Devil\u2019s Cake, much less polished off an entire box of Yankee Doodles, Miss Debbie\u2019s pies or rummaged through my refrigerator endlessly looking for something to comfort, sooth, fill.<\/p>\n<p>I am stuffed to the gills with guilt, drowning in sadness and busting at the seams (oops, there goes another zipper).<\/p>\n<p>I am heavy in heart and stature. My fat roll has grown its own fat roll. &#8211; Busted Zipper<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Busted Zipper,<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of Our Lady of Weight Loss&#8217;s Ten Commandments reads, &#8220;Thou shalt not beat thyself up.&#8221;\u00a0 You may wonder, &#8220;Why not?&#8221;\u00a0 Because it does no good.\u00a0 The best thing you can do is get up, dust yourself off and toss whatever devil food is leftover in the garbage can, fast!<\/p>\n<p><strong>All Is Forgiven, Move On!<br \/>\n<\/strong>Janice<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more weight confessions and forgiveness, join Our Lady of Weight Loss&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/30757154492\/\" target=\"_blank\">KICK in the TUSH Club\/FB<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">Sign up for the KICK in the TUSH CLUB monthly e-newsletter, <a href=\"http:\/\/maildogmanager.com\/lptrack.html?OurLadyofWeightLoss::711::http:\/\/maildogmanager.com\/surveys\/OurLadyofWeightLoss\/optin1.html\" target=\"_blank\">sign up here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo join the FACEBOOK\/KITT Club, <a href=\"http:\/\/maildogmanager.com\/lptrack.html?OurLadyofWeightLoss::711::https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/30757154492\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>!<br \/>\nFor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourladyofweightloss.com\/services\/coaching\/\" target=\"_blank\">one-on-one coaching<\/a>, contact Janice!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Our Lady of Weight Loss,\u00a0 My sins are two-fold &#8212; in thought and in deed. 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