I may step on toes...

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      So I'm probably being offensive, and touching on a sore topic, but I've had just about enough of the "fat acceptance" movement. Almost every day, I log into yahoo and there's an article about how obese people make less at work, or obese ladies aren't let into clubs, or today, that a blogger for Marie Claire was fired for saying that she didn't want to watch a morbidly obese couple make out and roll around together on a new show called. "Mike and Molly".
     Its apparently a new shift in our culture. To clump together obese people with other genetic differences like skin color, and say that it's discrimination none the less.
I disagree.
      I compare it more to the likes of other destructive behaviors, like alcohol, smoking, or hardcore drugs. These things are choices, and instead of telling people with major food problems that its okay, love yourself the way you are, we need to, as a culture, recognize it as what it is: an addictive, destructive, dangerous behavior.
     Check out this audio clip by one of my favs, Jack La Lanne: (the audio plays and you can scroll down and watch the old school clip)
http://www.jacklalanne.com/


     What Jack is talking about is keeping America fit. How are we, as a country, going to accomplish this if every year, every day, we, as americans, get sicker fatter and unhealthier? Why are we showing our children that its okay to love your sick and unhealthy body just the way that it is?

     I agree with having self confidence, and body confidence, and loving yourself, but if you haven't worked for anything, haven't finished anything, haven't stuck to anything, what do you have to be confident about? America is a country where you can move through classes, gain wealth, be anything you want, but its hard, it will always be hard and it always has been hard! Since when have we all gotten so compliant? So satisfied with living sub par? Its truly a sad state of affairs.
 Please America, listen to Jack!

Greetings Blogosphere!

Hello!
Ginger here. First Blog ever! Very exciting!
So my first question is this:
What's for dinner?
     You see I'm on an endless quest for balance. Balance between my love of food, and my true and earnest desire for optimum health and happiness.
     A few years back my whole family started dropping like flies. The common affliction? Cancer. Unlike most people, instead of accepting that cancer is some horrible, inevitable fate half of the American population will meet, I began to research.
     So I read. I read book after book after book, article after article after article, website after, well you get the idea. Now, 7 years later, I'm still reading, and my mother, having taken the advice I had given to her throughout my research, is alive, despite a 15% survival rate past Chemo for advanced breast and lymphatic cancer. She's been cancer free for over 6 years.
      I also have begun to live.
     I've spent the majority of my life imprisoned by my own body. Sick, unhealthy, weak and fat. Over the last few years, I have come to learn enough about health to shed and maintain over 40 lbs, cure my severe asthma and allergies, and heal my skin from cystic acne.
Right now, I'm down to the last 10 lbs.
     So what do I eat? Organic, first and foremost. Based on my research, cancer is a toxic disease, therefore organic was the first step. Reducing toxins is my primary goal in food. I eat nothing processed, nothing fake, and have recently given up sugar (about 95% of it actually) as I also battle an addiction to food and harbor a bit of an emotional eating disorder, as I feel so many of us do. I don't eat animals that are designed as scavengers that eat and decompose rotting filth and flesh, such as pigs and crabs and catfish. I eat mostly organic veggies and natural chicken, beef and fish. I have also begun to eat raw, organic cheese, which is a treat. I keep fruit as a once in a while thing, in an effort to balance my blood sugar and burn fat stores.
     I was vegan for many years, but based on my most recent research, I was crippling myself from gaining muscle, which now, with my fiance and through weight lifting, is an obtainable goal.  I'm in an Experiment right now to see if I can loose these last 10 lbs that are bugging the heck out of me, gain muscle and tone, and thus have the perfect body that I feel all people can obtain. I have felt good for some time, I am a picture of internal health, I really just want to look it for once.
So with that in mind, I ask you,
what's for dinner?

This is me a few weeks ago. Stay tuned for progress.