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We're off to a pretty good start to the New Year: Clients lost 329 pounds in the month of January! So, a little horn-tootin' is in order.

It's the first week of February, folks ... and I know you're cold, but don't let the bundles of clothes you're wearing right now that's covering a bunch of fat give you a false sense of time. Believe it or not we're only 6 weeks away from the first day of spring (March 20); Easter Sunday is the following week. Get your weight loss focus in gear, because time is passing ... with you or without you ... and the warmer weather is going to come quick! The heavy jackets will start to come off.

If you want to go into spring slimmer than you are now, followed not too long thereafter by a slimsational summer, NOW is the time to see yourself as you want to be in just a couple of months. If you don't, you'll close your eyes and click the heels of your ruby red slippers twice, like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, and voila! ... it'll be March, April (Passover!) and May and you'll be sorry you let the next several weeks pass ... and you won't be able to go backwards trying to catch up.

The greatest compliment we can receive are not only referrals but testimonials from clients ... who take the time to thank us for guiding them to their weight loss goals (and many, for the first time in their lives after years of trying) and enjoying many positive changes as a result. Normally, we put these testimonials, only a short paragraph or two, up at our web site.

Recently, however, I was on LinkedIn going through my newsfeed and saw an article titled, The SECRET to stop paying the "Fat Tax" in 2016 and actually LOSE WEIGHT. Naturally, with a title like that you know I'm going to click through to read it! And I did. I then saw it was written by a former client, a professional woman in the financial sector, who I had not seen in the few years since helping her successfully lose weight. Really curious now, I started to read through, and was floored. If you're interested, click through the article title, and let Christine Lapidow tell you her story in her own words.

That's it, for now.  Until next month's newsletter ...

~ Lori Boxer

Motivation: A 12-Tip Program

In weight loss, those who are most motivated are those who succeed.

Worming Your Way to Weight Loss

Want to have a parasite reside in your intestines for weight loss?

Obese Face Higher Radiation

It takes a higher level of radiation to get through layers of fat.

The Depressing Nature of Obesity

Obese people are more likely to become depressed. People suffering with depression are more likely to become obese.

We have REALLY GREAT recipes up at our web site: hundreds of them for each of our Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Final and Stabilization programs. If you want to make your selections of recipes by photo, visit our Pinterest recipe boards which will link back to the site for the recipes you select. (Not all recipes at the site have photos at Pinterest ... yet. It's a work in progress. But, all new recipes will.)

... and in case you haven't been to our Pinterest boards yet, here are some recent pins.

The 10 Health Benefits of Broccoli

The Mad Guide to Man-Boobs

Where Does Body Fat Go When You Lose Weight?

Here's how sugar works with the liver to make you #fat.  

Eating Habits Are Contagious

Did you miss any of these Fat Chat^SM podcasts last month?

New Year, New You? It Takes More Than Commitment to Lose Weight
Resolve, this year, to get your New Year off to a good start.

Falling Off the Weight Loss Wagon
Losing weight is pretty much like playing Chutes & Ladders.

Childhood Obesity, Precocious Puberty
Buying razors and tampons for young kids isn't cute

The Skinny on Obesity and Your Skin
The food you eat matters to your skin almost as much as it does to your waistline.

Subscribe to receive the weekly Fat Chat^SM podcast releases, and please don't forget to share with your circle of family, friends and colleagues. Thanks!

Sharing some good articles I've come across over the last month:

Eat Better, and Your Friends Will Too

What we eat is very much influenced by the people that we surround ourselves with.

The Weight Loss Enemy Within: Bacteria

Science explains how intestinal bacteria could be inhibiting your weight loss regime.

Here Is the Real Key to Weight Loss (Hint: It's Not Diet or Exercise)

Top four emotions that derail healthy intentions, along with strategies for altering how they impact your habits.

Should you eat whole wheat pasta instead of white? 

5 out of 5 experts say yes.