Building a Better Jen

I'm in the process of changing myself in order to live a healthier life. My Goals: - Run a 5K without stopping. - Run a half-marathon. (Did this one three times!) - Run a marathon. SW - 251 lbs GW - 135 lbs MyFitnessPal: Jenasaurusrex23.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

I plant roots so deeply in the people I love that I always lose a piece of myself when they go.

Beau Taplin (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[citizenshipandsocialjustice]

[sheafrotherdon]

On Thanksgiving

Dear U.S.-based Friends - This Thursday is Thanksgiving, a day on which we remember an almost entirely fictional encounter between the settler-colonists in Mâsach8sut and the local Wampanoag people.  While the details of the Thanksgiving story are largely mythical, it is true that the settler-colonists would have died without the aid of the Wampagoag in those first few years.  If we go to the heart of the story we’re remembering a moment where Native people helped non-Native people survive. Now it’s our turn. You’ve probably heard about the Water Protectors in North Dakota, trying with all their might and main to stop an oil pipeline crossing the Oglala Aquifier and going beneath the Missouri River.  Millions of people downriver of the crossing depend on the Missouri for their drinking water - the Lakota at Standing Rock reservation would be the first and most drastically hit. The protectors have a phrase: Mni Wiconi - Water is Life.  They are standing between the company and the river for all of us. There are thousands gathered at the three camps that make up the Water Protector presence.  Local law enforcement has violently tried to disperse the camps - they have attacked Protectors with rubber bullets, sound canons, concussion grenades, and high-pressure hoses.  The Water Protectors have done nothing wrong.  The land on which the pipeline is to be built belongs to them - the Supreme Court upheld it as such in 1980 when it agreed with the Lakota that the U.S. government had broken the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which promised the Oceti Sakowin (the seven council fires of the Lakota) the Black Hills region forever. On Sunday night, after dark, when temperatures were at 27F, local law enforcement attacked one of the camps.  (Warning for graphic video of the confrontation at the next link.)  A concussion grenade exploded on one female protector’s arm - she was flown to Minneapolis, and it looks like her arm may have to be amputated.  An elder went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated by camp healers.  26 people were injured badly enough to be taken to hospital.  Many hundreds more were hurt. Local law enforcement is knowingly risking killing people.  You don’t spray people with high pressure water hoses when the temperature is below freezing because you want them to back off; you do it because you want to cause hypothermia.  Amnesty International has decried the attack as an attack on human rights, and has appealed to local law enforcement to stop these tactics.  The United Nations has condemned what’s going on.  Oh, and Protectors are being arrested for “rioting.”  Mmmhmm. Once again, Native people stand between non-Native people and catastrophe, and this time we have to do more than be passively grateful.  This Thanksgiving, could you pass the hat at your dinner table for money to send directly to the camps? If you raise $5, and everyone did it, that would be an enormous influx of resources. Those resources would enable camp leaders to buy the supplies that are most needed - medical equipment (local law enforcement road blocks make getting anyone out of the camps by ambulance very tricky); below-zero-grade sleeping bags; camp heaters; winter-ready tents etc., as well as provide legal counsel to those who have been arrested. You can donate at the following places: To Standing Rock Directly (The tribe is funding the portable bathrooms, trash pick up, and other infastructure) To the Sacred Stone Camp legal defense fund To the Red Warrior Camp (direct action camp within Oceti Sakowin) legal defense fund The Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Owáyawa school at camp To Oceti Sakowin Camp (the main camp) directly All of these have been verified - your money really is going directly to the causes listed. Please think about the encounter at the heart of Thanksgiving as you gather with your nearest and dearest (and those you don’t feel so near and dear toward) on Thursday.  Give back.

[spyroflame0487]

If you see this image while scrolling it means you have seen the Joe Biden of enjoying ice cream and money.

Reblog for money, happiness, and ice cream.

[healthandfitnessmotivator]

[the14thplanet]

share the toolman and the next 20 seconds of your life will be pretty decent

[theproblematicblogger]

ngl it worked

[rot-city]

damn that’s some fast service 

[sourcefieldmix-deactivated20160]

i shared in 21 seconds and he fucking killed me with that hammer

[starkexposition]

this is hte best one yet

[slowheart]

fool me once, shame on u; fool me twice, shame on u again for taking advantage of my compassionate & forgiving nature!!!!!! how dare u

[buildingabetterjen]

High School Me: *has 8am to 6pm days* *never drinks water* *doesn’t even feel the need to pee during the day* *overall feels pretty good*

College Me: *always carries a bottle of water* *can’t even go 3 hours without peeing* *is always tired* *is a mess*

[profeminist]

Source

IF YOU CAN SPARE IT, DO IT!!!

DONATE TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN MIKE PENCE’S NAME 

[profeminist]

A reader asked: “If it’s in his name does that mean he will get to write it off on his taxes or will the real person donating still be able to write it off?”

I believe you can do it but in someone’s name as a type of honorarium. I’ll update this post once I confirm!

Update: you can donate and you gave the money, but it’s in someone else’s “honor,” or dishonor in this case.

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[my-feminism]

In the Netherlands, abortion is freely available on demand. Yet the Netherlands boasts the lowest abortion rate in the world, about 6 abortions per 1000 women per year, and the complication and death rates for abortion are miniscule. How do they do it? First of all, contraception is widely available and free — it’s covered by the national health insurance plan. Holland also carries out extensive public education on contraception, family planning, and sexuality. An ethic of personal responsibility for one’s sexual activity is strongly promoted. Of course, some people say that teaching kids about sex and contraception will only encourage them to have lots of sex. But Dutch teenagers tend to have less frequent sex, starting at an older age, than American teenagers, and the Dutch teenage pregnancy rate is 9 times lower than in the U.S.

[teratomarty]

I endorse evidence-based medicine, and evidence-based activism.

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[sscreamss]

just because you don’t look like somebody who you think is attractive doesn’t mean you aren’t attractive. flowers are pretty but so are christmas lights and they look nothing alike

[hershey]

I don’t think anyone could’ve said it in a better way

[palewansickly]

I reblog these things in the hope that someday I will grow to believe them. 

[frankiebeanhealthnut-deactivate]

What is your take on Luna bars? I have tried so many protein bars and I like more than others but Luna are by far my favorite? I'm just worried they're not as nutritious as others!

Since I don’t have a Luna bar nutritional label in front of me, I will tell you how to decipher if the bar is nutritious: 

Check the calories, if it’s a snack bar it should be about 250-300 calories/serving or less, if it’s a meal replacement bar it will be 300+ calories/serving

Check the ratio of carbs to fiber, ideally no more than 10 g of carbs for every 1 g of fiber 

Check the ratio of carbs to fat, ideally no less than 2 g of protein for every 1 g of fat

Check the amount of added sugar, ideally try to eat less than 25g of sugar for an entire day

Check the amount of added sodium, ideally try to eat less than 2000 milligrams for an entire day

The fewer ingredients the better! And more recognizable ingredients the better! 

Hope that helped :) 

[buildingabetterjen]

My family voted, how about yours? Make sure your people make it to a voting booth today!

[buildingabetterjen]

Super jazzed that I got to vote for a woman for president! Don't forget to vote!!! #imwithher #nastywomenvote

[stay-yourself-0]