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Believe it or not, fat girls finish first or is it last? There’s truly no answer depending on where you stand from the visual aspect. If you asked me or want my opinion, it’s all about perspective. But isn’t it about health as well. I mean, I was never with the Fat Girl or Skinny Girl movement…
I’ve always been with the Healthy Fit Girl movement. With that in mind, let us say, “Thick or Full” a lot of people take offense to the word “Fat”. And I used to take offense to the word “fat” but now I really don’t care.
Again, it’s all about perspective. I’ve been told that I have a fat ass.
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But trust me when I tell you that is/was truly a compliment. Yes, I have a butt… And yes, it is big. I get it.
Thank God for big booty
celebs, 
if it weren’t for them, most full figured thick women would still be looked at and treated like Venus Hottentot
But seriously, most men will admit to wanting a lady with a lil more meat on her bones, something to fill out her clothes and definitely something to hold on to in the bedroom and more especially cushion for the pushin… But a lot of guys won’t always approach a fill figure female. Are they intimidated by these beautiful Amazonian women or is it that they just can’t handle us?
Today, full figures are on the rise and actually becoming more accepted into the mainstream of soci
ety and media. Women everywhere are gracefully accepting their bountiful curves as a blessing instead of a curse. Clothes are now made to fit and accentuate fill figures instead of big bulky clothes that are supposed to hide fuller shapes. But on the topic of health, “you are what you eat”. And size does not always play a role in how our insides contribute to the overall health of a person. If you’re taking in junk, skinny or not; it simply isn’t healthy and is bound to catch up with you sooner or later.
So, do thick woman finish first? I think just being in the race is what matters. Now whether you finish first or last is up you… And size has nothing to do with it. Keeping in mind that this only applies to us women; besides, I don’t want men to get their hopes too high. I’m just keeping it Real…
even after taking two puffs of my embarrassing bright yellow asthma pump. We are splat in the center of the gym doing burpees, then frog hops and wide lunges. But these women are going fast, and twice my age and half my size and I can’t keep up. “Dear God, why can’t I keep up?!!! ” I can’t breathe, and suddenly the chubby little fat girl with the jerry curl, whose gym shorts keep riding up into her crotch has appeared and wants to roll into a little ball and, so what I do? I walk away, yup that’s right.
loss journeys will be anything but painless and difficult. It will be a test of our willpower and most of it is all mental. Our stomachs may dictate when we’re hungry, but it is ultimately us who decide what to food put into our mouths, and which; as well as, how much of it goes in.
Truth is, I’d been on a diet almost half of my life. Seriously, I think that I started my first diet when I was around eight-years-old. I remember sitting alone on the steps just outside of my building in East Orange, NJ. It was summertime and I had on some average length shorts. I kept looking down at my chubby legs, I remember repositioning them, first I crossed them, then I held them together tightly. This position made them look slim, and then I told myself something that’s probably not even genetically possible. I told myself that I would one day have skinny legs. Today, I think skinny legs are unattractive, but as a young girl skinny legs were in. So at eight-years-old I began the Bahamian Diet, a diet created by Dick 
Gregory in 1987. The Bahamian Diet was/is a powdered, meal replacement drink that like most drinks, are to aid in weight-loss. For a majority of the day my father would mix the powder with orange juice and we would drink it. It was nasty, it tasted like sand mixed with juice, but eventually I grew accustom to its taste. It didn’t matter, I didn’t lose any weight and I was always hungry. My mom thought it would be good if we tried Nutrisystem since it involved actually eating food. It seemed simple enough, all we had to do was order a meal plan. Within days this big box arrived at our home, and since we were hungry we decided to try out a few of the meals, notice I said a few of the meals. Long story short, I would uncontrollably eat about two meals at one time, resulting in no weight-loss. I can go on and on into my adulthood about the woes of my dieting life. The problem was and still is that the thought of dieting represents deprivation of some sort. When the reality is simple, all we need to do is get off of these diets. The mind-set of being on a diet has created this warped idea of starvation, fasting, taking fat-burners, 
and the need to take a colon cleanser. No one stops to think about the real steps that it takes towards being healthy. It’s not about starvation and just looking good or better in our clothing. It’s about how we feel on the inside, living longer, feeling good, and whether our skin is glowing or not. I mean after all who wants grey skin???Lets be real, who cares how you look on the outside if you feel like crap inside. In my mid-twenties I’d woke up one morning and I got tired of being fat. I was tired of the yo-yo dieting, and quick fixes of fat-burners that never worked. I decided to actually use my gym membership and get a trainer. Within almost 10 months I’d managed to revamp how I saw weight-loss and food. I’d lost almost 85-90 pounds. How did I do it? I ate way less junk, I began eating 5 small meals a day and working out 5-6 days a week without fail. My trainer would say, “If you’re well enough to go to work, then you’re well enough to work out.” There was no magic to it, well I guess it may have seemed like magic now that I managed to gain all plus more of the weight back. Which leads to my main reason for writing this Blog to you. If you’re like me, a professional dieter then it’s time for us to get real. I’ve read numerous books on health written by some of the best weight doctors and fitness coaches and I’ve probably dabbed in almost every quick fix possible. I’ve tried cutting out meat, breads and sugars. I know the best foods to eat to burn fat, all of the natural supplements to add into my daily regimen. I’ve been on the cabbage soup diet, the lemon-aid diet etc. The truth is none of the above worked long-term for me. Let’s get off diets and get on with life. Just take a look at the first three letters in the word (D.I.E). 
So now, I’m challenging you and myself to seek optimal health… How, you maybe asking? If you haven’t already done so, figure out what works best for you. Go see a nutritionists and for goodness sake please, please work-out. I will be documenting my progress and keeping a diary of my personal woes towards health and fitness, and I invite you to join me in sharing this journey. After all, I’m a recovering Professional Dieter and I know that a diet isn’t something temporary, your eating has to be a life style change, something you can see yourself doing for the rest of your life healthily and happily.
was in a wrestling match and lost. I knew it was my weight, I have 2 herniated disc from a car accident that took place 13 years ago. The fact of the matter is, that I needed to get focused and so I did… Check back weekly for my progress and or feel free to join me.
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