Why You’re Lucky if You’re Fat
You know what’s crazy. When you google raw till 4, or fruitarian before and after…and look in google images, pics of me in a bikini come up.
At first I was kind of embarrassed, but now I’m like, I should post more pics to inspire people.
Not to say that everyone has to lose weight, but I think everyone should know that there is a way to lose weight that:
1. is scientifically proven to be healthier for you and extend your lifespan by 5-10 years (see The China Study)
2. will allow you to never diet again and eat as much as you want and completely crush all feelings of guilt and shame around eating
3. will allow you to become a daily animal rights activist and educate people about the billions of innocent “people” (i.e animal persons) who are enslaved, tortured and murdered behind closed doors.
4. boycotts all animal exploitation companies
5. may allow you to heal certain “incurable” health problems doctors can’t help you with
6. allows you to look like a skinny supermodel if you want that look
Do I look like a supermodel? Well sometimes I feel like I do. I mean, I weigh 145 pounds and I think they weigh like 100 and are 5’11. But I feel overjoyed still when I look in the mirror.
Trust me people, I really was not a naturally thin person. In fact my whole life I felt like the largest person in the room.
Check out this pic of me that someone recently posted on my Facebook from when I was 11. I am the person in the purple.
I always wondered “why me?”
Why was I born the large person.
But you know what, I was lucky.
Who wants to hear how a naturally thin person lost weight? Not me.
I want to hear from someone who was like 500 pounds.
It’s the same with our other problems. The worse are problems are, the more inspiring and believable are methods are when we overcome them. And the more exciting and thrilling the journey is.
I want to hear about the person who was paralyzed with stage fright who became an oscar winning actress.
That kind of thing.
I watched this guy film himself try to get rejected 100 times in 100 days. The first rejection on the first day was the best, cause you could tell how scared he was and how hard it was for him.
So don’t be afraid of your struggle, your problems, your flaws, and weaknesses.
Just know that that’s just adding intensity and suspense to your story. Eventually you will have the best before and after photos of all. And you will be able to teach and inspire people. So that they can have their own thrilling journeys as well.
Ithaca by C.P Cavafy
As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope the voyage is a long one.
May there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
