Janice Taylor

Whether you are one of the 44% of Americans who make New Year’s resolutions or not, the new year does present an opportunity to reassess, revamp and revive. Today, Janice Taylor, your Weight Loss Success Coach shares 10 tips that will help you to keep the energy going!

Still – wired, overworked or not, we need to sleep. Requirements vary from person to person. According to national sleep studies, most healthy adults need at least 8 hours of sleep to function best. Sleep studies indicate, in addition to the aforementioned ‘bad’ things that can happen to sleep deprived people, those who average less than 5 hours sleep per night are 73% more likely to be obese. Lack of sleep impacts the balance of hormones (ghrelin and leptin) in the body that affect appetite.

The moment is a place out of time, where you are being before your mind. In other words, you were present! Being present is not an easy task, and staying present – living in the moment, the now – seems almost impossible, doesn’t it?

Could it be that we are all that busy? So busy, rushed and stressed that we seriously don’t have time to breathe? Or think? Or reflect? Or take care of ourselves? As one of my star coaching clients – S. Tar. (yes, that is her real name) says, “We are not human beings; we are human runnings. I want to stop running; and start being.”

The ‘body image’ stars are aligned this week. The NOW Foundation is launching their “Love Your Body” campaign. The “Inner Weigh,” the weight loss documentary that we’ve all been waiting for premieres in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 20, and coincidentally Norman Kamali, fashion icon, kicks off “Wellness Wednesdays” at the Norma Kamali Wellness Cafe in NYC. Given the confluence of these rivers of wellness, weight loss and body image, I wondered what Norma Kamali thought of it all. I reached out, and here follows my interview with Norma!

In 1992, I started working with a man named Bob, to whom I was very much attracted…..honestly. And, yes, it was mutual. Nothing came of it, as we were both married. I haven’t seen Bob in almost 15 years. At that time I was 40 years old, and weighed 125 lbs. and at the risk of sounding immodest, I was pretty darn cute. Now … fast forward … 15 years later, and I weigh 185, and at the risk of sounding pathetic, I am fat and frumpy.

But the bottom line is that health care is not a cultural issue; it is a policy issue. To talk about it intelligently one needs to delve deep into economics, public health and more. The vast majority of us don’t want to have that conversation because it either puts us to sleep or makes our heads hurt. Turning it into a cultural issue is attractive because it feels good to be angry and satisfying to form a strong position.

According to Our Lady of Weight Loss, the patron saint of permanent fat removal, she who has devoted a great deal of time to examining the way in which people eat, there are 10 basic eating styles – from Gulp n’ Go to Totally Beige to the Food Architect.

Yesterday, I was talking with my new client, Donna*, gathering a bit of background information – her address, phone numbers, email – seriously, nothing ‘heavy,’ just her contact info, at which time, she emphatically blurted out, “I love to cook for my family for the holidays and I’m not giving it up. My mother didn’t cook or bake for us during the holidays when I was a kid, and I’d always wanted her to. So, I cook up and bake up a storm each and every year for my family, and I am not going to stop! My kids, my husband, everyone – they love it. And, I repeat, I am not giving it up!”

After forty years (yes 40!) of breakfast related studies that show without a doubt that kick-starting your day with breakfast is the healthy thing to do – for children and adults alike – people still say . . .

Just as I was ‘getting’ and ‘living’ the Buddhist principle of “Right Speech,” the third of the eight path factors in the Noble Eightfold Path, along come Lindsay, Bristol and Mel. Too juicy to pass it up!

For many of us the biggest challenge in our day comes at night. We find it almost impossible to simply put down the fork, push away from the dinner table and move on into the night without finding our minds drifting towards food. It would be lovely to be without the obsessive food thoughts — to make space for a peaceful, calm and soulful evening. Wouldn’t it? I have worked out an easy and yes, brilliant strategy that you can follow!

As a Life & Wellness Coach, I often receive emails and phone calls from mothers who want me to help their daughters to lose weight (rarely a son). It breaks my heart to think that there are so many little girls and boys who are hurting in so many ways, on so many levels. I am on a mission to make health, wellness and weight loss and to end the pain of childhood obesity. Please join with me! Here are some simple tips on how you can be a part of the solution, as you end childhood obesity, one household at a time!

For those of us who are hooked on watching the Academy Awards, because we love movies, the glitz of Hollywood, or just because it is a time-honored tradition, here follow some of ‘award-wininng’ quotes from last night’s Oscars.

The 21 Day Cure: BLOW the Fat Cells Out of Your Mind begins on Monday, February 8! For less than one dollar a day you can Blow the Fat Cells Out of Your Mind! Pretty cool, hey?

We live in an obesogenic environment – a plethora of fast food outlets, reliance on cars, and offers enticing us to eat larger portions … What are YOU going to do about it!

Here, Janice Taylor, Weight Loss Guru, Life & Wellness Coach, Hypnotist, author and 50 pound big time loser shares 28 tips that can help you to blow the fat cells out of your mind!

Janice Taylor, Life & Wellness Coach, author & 50-pound big-time-loser is here to tell you that the best way to begin anew is to make sure that the energy in your home is supporting your new healthy eating and living style. Here, learn how to easily and effortlessly create harmony, happiness and health!

Is it time to step up to the plate (so to speak), take an honest and courageous look at your life, and make a commitment to loving yourself? Are you ready to let go of belief systems and habits that no longer serve you? Are you ready to step into a healthier 2010?

Is your weight stopping you from moving forward? Might you be a food addict? Please take an honest look at the following questions and answer, ‘yes’ or ‘no.’

Will you wake up fatter on New Year’s Day? Heavier than you are now? More depressed? Depleted? Lacking energy? OR … Thinner, happier, more energized? Here, Janice Taylor and Our Lady of Weight Loss, share their Wake Up Thinner secrets!

Especially when it comes to weight loss, people sometimes have to see the picture of failure before they can be motivated toward success. One day, I was on the phone with a client. Jo was in the dumps, feeling defeated, and telling me how she pretty much felt like a failure. “Why can’t I lose weight?”