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FA? You are delusional. Let me help..

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Preach it! You choose what you put in your mouth, you choose not to work it off. You are eating for two or three people. Don’t talk to me about “glandular problems”, I have a polyglandular autoimmune disease, Hashimoto’s disease, type one diabetes, and isn’t it just the strangest thing that I’m not overweight?!? Oh yeah,  and self control. I have that.

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This.

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Look, I may be anti HAES, but I’m CERTAINLY not anti Body Pos.   There are people out there born with a deformity. OR, they acquire one at one point or another. You don’t have to do much searching on google to find your own examples of people who are overcoming every day hurdles of life while living with a physical (and mental) disability. I am in 100 percent support of these people being confident that they can achieve anything they set their minds to do.

HOWEVER--and here is the major difference--You CHOSE to be fat. You did not wake up suddenly one day and look down to see a gigantic ball of lard. No, you spent years and years living a lifestyle of gluttony and mindlessness. You sucked up resources that could have been used to feed two starving children in other countries over a period of a decade.

YOU made the choice. YOU have no right to place yourself in the same category as a man who fought overseas and lost his leg. Or a woman who was born without her arms....Or a child with a cleft pallet. No, you are not at ALL of the same ilk.

And by saying you are only perpetuates the cycle of consumerist gluttony. If I realized I was gaining weight because of overeating, I’d stop it before I reached 170. I would never ever let myself grow to be over 300 pounds. I am too hyper aware of myself and of how my body feels...and let me tell you something...gaining weight feels dreadful.

So no. No. What you are doing is akin to saying you love your cat, then putting it in a Tupperware filled with Vaseline. Saying you love your body is like me telling you I love the ocean, then throwing a trash bag of plastic six-pac holders out to sea.

If you LOVED your body, you would keep it fit, clean, active, and functional.

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In Leu of the /r/FPH ban.

Hey guys. All six of you. I have not been posting because I’ve been working on a demo reel. I wanted to say thank you for your support, and I want to make a few statements before I continue this little tumblr project.

I want to say that there is a FINE line between motivation and flat out bullying. I’m not a fat sympathizer, and I think fat acceptance is one of the worst things to happen to our culture, but I’m also not someone who condones bullying in any form.

I’m highly aware of all the factors associated with the obesity epedemic, including socioeconomic status. (I’m poor as fuck by the way, but still I buy locally grown/ made organic food because I am morally obligated and don’t think there is such a thing as excuses.)

I come from a long line of tough blubbers, including my Grandma, who in her younger years became overweight (about 50 pounds over) and went to weight watchers to get her health together. Her best friend (they both have passed) was a woman named Marcy who used to be huge. The first time my Grandma saw Marcy in the supermarket she walked up to her and said “My god. You’re fat!” and they became best friends. My grandmother helped Marcy to lose over 100 pounds.

I think we’ve become hypersensitive because everyone seems to get offended these days. We don’t want to ‘hurt feefees’ at the risk of having either a suicide or a lawsuit on our hands.

This ‘fat acceptance’ movement has  become an excuse for a lazy and unsustainable lifestyle. I have a theory that it is a counter-movement to the health craze perpetuated potentially (or at least encouraged) by corporate America to keep these people fat, and happy, so that they can continue stuffing their pockets with factory made food and money for medications prescribed for health symptoms associated with Obesity. Here it is:

We are all in search of a ‘miracle’ cure, and the fact of the matter is, the cure for many disease is simply fresh whole food. More importantly, SUSTAINABLE fresh whole foods from farms that implement crop rotation and proper care for their animals: Grass fed and free roaming cows, pigs, sheep, goats, and chickens (which taste better by the way though I only eat meat once every few months to help keep my iron count up). The miracle cure lies within you and your lifestyle. You don’t have to dole out thousands of dollars for weight pills and meds. These are simply bandaids placed on top of a bigger issues, which are festering and need surgical removal at this point (metaphorically speaking). I’m speaking drastic change.

Fat acceptance gives people to feel as though they are not morally obligated to eat better, and they are able to turn a blind eye to the five people who are starving that each one of them eat for, or the fact that their money is going towards factories built in third worlds by underpaid employees working in deplorable conditions. This is a MORAL issue. This is about Obligation and TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF. But no, you go on believing that this is about everyone else except you. You are part of the cancer, and thus, have become my natural enemy. I am an antibody, and my purpose in life is to attack the cancer that is plaguing this earth.

I could go way in to these things but for the sake of brevity, I will reserve that for another post.

I do this because I care. I care about the world at large, I care about the state of the planet, and I do not believe that ‘it is the way it is’. I think that we can all implement drastic change if we just get on the same god damned page.

And how can you do that when you are supporting our consumerist way of living? Consumerism is a Ponzi Scheme. Our ‘unilmited’ resources are an illusion. You are made comfortable so you don’t revolt. A fractured population given just enough to maintain complacency is the PERFECT way to keep people from overhauling the system. That and guilt manipulation. People don’t want to think that they are part of the problem. We always want to blame someone else but the fact is, we cant anymore. Our earth is seriously ill with cancer, and we need to stand up to help fight it off.

The first step is taking steps. Lose the weight. Eat well. and DO YOUR RESEARCH.

Thanks guys. Lets help spread the world. Please share my blog with others and I will be making good quality posts in the future, after I get back from my business trip.

Much Love,

  TB

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SOMEONE SAVE THIS MAN

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Whoops! Lost mah neck!

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A Little tidbit

I have struggled with anxiety and depression since I can remember, since before puberty, which is par for the course with many Type 1 Diabetics. I've been on all sorts of anti anxiety, anti depressants, SSRIs, blah blah.....

I did it/ do it (who knows if I'll have a set back again. I try every day not to. Some days are harder than most.) because I wanted to feel good at the moment, thinking I could use a little boost because these funks are sometimes so hard to see through.

I swear this much though: EVERY MEDICATION I've been on has only made things worse. I began to feel even more terrible, then I forgot what it felt like to feel good, so being terrible was the baseline every day. My body is very sensitive to chemicals that don't belong inside of it, and it often rejects or reacts to even the smallest dose of medication.

I just rediscovered after a few months of being on meds for panic attack (and I knew this beforehand so I sometimes feel like an idiot for forgetting) is that there is literally NO BETTTER WAY to feel good and increase your mood than to exercise (and exercising while eating clean can sometimes make you feel this euphoric high...just this rush of whatever hormone makes you feel incredible and ALIVE). I seriously think these 'people' have forgotten what it's like to actually feel good. You can't possibly feel good while your whole body is straining just to keep you alive....Hell, I feel my body crying even when I gain water weight. You can't know what pain is if you've never suffered, but you can also forget what it's like to be truly happy. So you can forget what it's like to feel clean and healthy from the inside out.  

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I Was Thinkin’

I was just thinking today, after taking a bath, that the foods I eat are foods I'm ok with bathing in. Allow me to extrapolate further:

I was eating a bowl of steamed broccoli, olive oil, and salt. Nothing else, and was taking a bath (it seems like an odd thing to do but whatever, I brush my teeth in the shower sometimes.) and before I got out, I rinsed my bowl with faucet water while I was still bathing. This probably seems gross and odd to some, but my point is that I was OK with bathing in the leftover oil and broccoli juices for a bit.

It got me wondering...Maybe it's a good idea to think about if you'd be ok with having a food, or (better yet) a foods individual ingredients on the outside of your body before you put it on the inside....would any of you rub powdered Cheetos on your skin or use Twinkies filling as a face cream? These foods aren't clean and our body knows it. Even if you break something complicated like a casserole down in to individual ingredients. Would you be ok with bathing in bleached flour? no? what about flax meal or whole flour? People use wheat in skin care products all the time, but only the beneficial parts of the plant. What about your spaghetti sauces? would you bathe in tomatoes? People do that for something like treating a skunk spray. What about High Fructose Corn Syrup? Would you bathe in that?

Anyway, food for thought.

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Funny how everything I thought I knew about drawing figures goes out the window

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Does fingers, doe

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It's seriously like watching illiterate people burn audio books on how to read. 

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Support Jim Henson Studios.

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The Garden Song

I am all about this....

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HAH HAH

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Merarus socii- Perhaps the most destructive and harmful of all sub-species. Merarus socii, more commonly known as the Tumblrina, is

responsible for an encredible portion of the 'fatavism'  (fat activism) movement. The females of this species are loudly colored. It is

speculated that M. socii's visual display is part of a complex mating ritual, but scientists are yet to observe such act take place in the wild.

This sub-species is to be avoided at all costs.

Dilusion is the means by which M. socii is able to operate. It is a very agressive sub-species, and will deny all reason in order to preserve it's

wasteful way of living. It will lash out and attack all H. Sapien members that dare challenge it's teritory.

Report any and all M socii specimins to the National Institute Against the Entitlement of Obeasts  (NIAEO). M. socii is particularly

dangerous, agressive, and threatens the recourses it shares with H. sapiens.