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Okay, there are a lot of people [especially teenagers and pre-teens] that think starving themselves [even for a little while] will be a healthy way to lose weight. It's NOT. So I'm going to write some hopefully helpful tips to lose weight and hope that someone will read this and get their desired results.

The Golden Rule: Never, Ever Starve yourself. Not even for short periods of time. It will do more harm then good.

Rule Number One: Don't eat sugar.

Rule Number Two: Don't eat Fatty Foods.

Rule Number Three: Exercise regularly.

Sugar:
    Everyone knows sugar is bad for you. It's especially fattening when you want to lose weight. Therefore, don't eat sugar. Do NOT keep snacks [such as chips, ice cream, cookies, etc.] in your house, for temptation is very strong.

Food:
    Don't eat Fatty Foods. Of course, that means McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, KFC, Chinese Take-Out, etc. are all out. In fact, avoid going out to eat. Always cook your meals at home. Cook healthy stuff. Have a bowl of salad always in your fridge. Have fresh vegetables in your fridge. Have fresh fruit, cleaned and ready to eat on your dinner table, or an easy to reach place. Don't buy hot dogs. Avoid "fake" meat. Avoid fried food [completely unhealthy and fattening for you]. Don't eat Junk Food [even if you plan to exercise it out later, you should get in the habit of not eating that junk]. Don't eat after 9, the latest [6 PM is recommended]. Eat a healthy breakfast [eggs or cereal, juice or milk, freshly cut fruits, maybe a healthy brand of fruit yogurt, no bacon], satisfying lunch [salad with grilled chicken, healthy pasta,  sandwich with wheat bread, lettuce, tomatoes, and real turkey, no salami, and a fruit salad or yogurt for desert], and a delicious dinner [pasta/spaghetti, steak w/o sauce, a little homemade mashed potatoes, a lot of vegetables, homemade casserole, etc.]. No snacks in between [except maybe the occasional apple or banana]. Just because you're on a diet doesn't mean you can't eat yummy food. Eat small portions. Avoid going for that second helping. If you can do it, eat five small portions a day [the portions should be smaller then the small portions a person would get three times a day]. However, you should not interchange. Keep your body in a schedule. And always, always keep a bottle of water or tea with you. Do not drink soft drinks and power drinks [you don't need them as long as your eating healthy].

Exercise:
    You've all heard of this before. Exercise is important. Take public transportation to work or school and walk home [unless you live 5+ miles away]. Walk every chance you get. Stretch every chance you get. For the younger generations, run on a public track and time yourself. Push yourself to the limit [without dying] and try to improve your time for a mile. For older and younger generations, I recommend walks through the park. Speed walk around the lake three times and walk it twice. Don't immediately sit or lay down after eating. Walk around, pace yourself, or clean the house. Do whatever it takes to keep you on your feet. Learn how to rollerblade, bicycle, ice skate, etc. For athletic people, sports make you gain muscle fat. If you don't mind, go play tennis or baseball or American football. For those who would like to lose weight, play basketball, football [soccer], swimming, hiking, bicycling. For those of you who are married or are active sexually, sex burns a lot of calories. So does laughing. Hang out with your friends, but avoid movie theaters where candy, buttered popcorn, soda and two-hour long movies can do serious harm to your diet, can tempt you. For parents with kids, organize trips to the parks, museum or amusement park and have fun. [Six Flags is a killer for your feet.] To teenagers, go camping. Most camps have horrendous food, decreasing the amount of food you take into your body [although the food might be unhealthy]. I lost ten pounds in a day because at my camp, the girl's cabin was situated on top of a hill. Do everything you can to stay on your feet and keep active.

Well this is my advice for now and I'll add some later as I think them up.

Disclaimer: I am not the most healthiest, nor the skinniest person in the world. Most of this is not taken from personal experience or books about losing weight. This is all common sense. And in two-three weeks [maybe even a week if you're faithful to the diet] you will see results. Guaranteed. But only if you stick to this. If you eat junk food in between all the healthy meals and exercise and don't get the results you wanted, you cannot blame me. I wrote not to eat junk food so don't blame me.

This is a pretty long term way of losing weight. But this is the daily life of a healthy person. If every American lived like this, there wouldn't be as many obese kids and the air would be a lot less polluted. =]

Although this entry is a bit late, I want to express my joy at the fact that Barack Obama was chosen to be our president in the 2008 Presidential Elections. Along with the fact that Obama is [half] African American, he is also the first Democratic president we've had in years. This means that change is happening and it is Glorious.

However, it is also a sad day. In California, Proposition 8 passed, banning homosexual marriages. I shed many tears of grief and sorrow. Winning by a mere 3%, Prop 8 is one of the most archaic, conventional propositions to have been suggested and passed. It is with immense sadness that I tell you that the United States of America is still majorly a bigoted, cruel and unjust country.

Feel my pain and the pain of many Americans.

How dare you take away my right to marry whom I choose, regardless of my sexual preference?


"Dear Yes on 8 supporters,

Hey there. I’m going to go out on a limb here that most of you are feeling pretty proud of yourselves right now, patting each other on the back for your near victory of 3%. It must feel good to win huh? God knows I would be proud too if I woke up to find that my vote had such an impact on thousands upon thousands of people. I must say, I’d be pretty elated over the defeat of the US’s strides for separation of church and state, the victory over the very things our fore fathers fought and died for –the things our country was founded on, Yes, I have to say, I’d be pretty enthralled with myself for the devastation of an enormous group of people, but I’m not.

I’m not because I voted no to legal discrimination; no to the idea that a religiously founded belief and opinion should have any say in the legal constitution which rules over other people who may not have the same beliefs. I voted no because I felt there was a greater need for human equality and compassion than the whims of an organized religion that practices intolerance and promotes the sub-human treatment of a group of people. I voted no because I could not bring myself to believe in the hypocrisy of a love that would deny people fundamental rights supposedly granted to everyone.

But I suppose that doesn’t matter to you, does it? I bet it never did.

Well I hope you’re happy with yourselves now. I hope you can look into the mirror and say how happy you are to emotionally devastate hundreds of thousands of people and their loved ones. I hope you can look in the mirror and say how proud you are to treat another group of people with substandard subhuman notions for reasons they cannot change. And I HOPE you can look at yourself and feel just FINE with the fact that your vote has such emotionally scarring ramifications that people (your neighbors, your coworkers, you family members and possibly friends) might kill themselves because of it. That they would rather take their own life then live in a world YOU chose for them.

I hope you can think about that and smile without flinching.

Take pride in being a bigot, because you are. Disagree? The definition of a bigot is a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion. Utterly intolerant, as in, so intolerant that you cannot stand to allow a marriage between two people you don’t even know who you don’t deem acceptable for your definition of marriage. Can’t argue that, can you?

And maybe you don’t understand the weight of what you’ve done because you were taught to believe that being different is NOT ok. Or maybe because you never had to fight for the same rights as your neighbor, your fellow US citizen.. your fellow human being.

But that’s no excuse.

What you have done was hurtful and inexcusable. It was a choice based on unjust fear and selfishness. Fear of what you don’t understand and cannot relate to. Selfishness of worrying over what this means for you, what this might do to YOU or your soul instead of what this means for your fellow man and woman.

And don’t pretend this was for the children because 300 pediatricians told you otherwise. Because of your vote, children who are already being raised by gay parents now have their chance for an economically stable environment ruined. Children who had the chance to be adopted by gay married parents, who OBIVOUSLY wanted them more than their heterosexual birth parents, will now suffer as well.

And as for YOUR children…gay marriage was never going to be taught in schools and you knew it. The California super attendant for schools and the Teachers Associations told you so. This was never about church rights, everyone told you otherwise. In fact, just about every large newspaper, major company head, California leader as well our current (Obama) AND past (Clinton) US President told you it was WRONG and you voted for it anyway.

This was never about anyone but you and your fear.

Fear so strong that you would be willing to deny people the right to be above subhuman just to keep yourself “safe”. I have never seen a bigger hypocritical unprecedented discriminatory injustice short of the Rwanda genocide and the Hate crime killings in my time.

And don’t try and console me with domestic partnership because it is NOT the same a marriage. You only have 30 rights in a domestic partnership vs the 177 in marriage. Would YOU want to give up your other 147 rights because another religion said they didn’t agree with your marriage? Would YOU want a domestic partnership instead of a marriage if you knew that the domestic partnership could be dissolved if you ever decided to live under a different roof as your partner for whatever reason (work related or not)?

Would you want to have to wait 7 years in some cases before you’re even granted these simple 30 rights?

I’m going to take a stab at this and say you wouldn’t. So if you wouldn’t revoke your marriage for a domestic partnership (or take a domestic partnership instead of a marriage) then why would you demand that of anyone else? You should never ask someone to do something you, yourself, are not willing to do.

That’s equality. Justice, liberty and freedom for ALL.

How dare you spit in the face of that because of something you feel is a sin.

You want to know what REAL sin is? REAL sin is taking away someone’s free agency – their right to choose.

If you take away someone’s right to choose to keep or not keep their processions (theft), that’s a sin. If you take away someone’s choice to fornicate with you or not (rape), that’s a sin. If you take away someone’s right to choose life or death (murder), that’s a sin.

And if you take away someone’s right to marry for no other good reason than you’re afraid, that’s a sin.

If the churches don’t want to sanctify the marriages, that’s their religious freedom. If GOD doesn’t want to sanctify the marriages, then he/she won’t. But it is NOT your RIGHT to take away MY rights as a human being because you don’t agree with my life style which ISN’T hurting anyone else.

I have every right to marry who I love within reasonable standards. I have every right be as legally and financially safe as anyone else. I have the right to every one of those marriage privileges as anyone else and it’s being taken away from me. Not because I committed a crime. Not because I gave up my own free agency.

But because of my sexuality, because of something so fundamentally apart of myself that I cannot change it no matter what you say or do. No amount of therapy will change that.

This is human cruelty. This is what the bible was really preaching against all along.

And I love my spouse just as much as the next person does, or should, and I’m proud to call her my wife. I want to tell everyone I’m happily married and I fought hard to be with her. I want the right to say I’m married, to go to the hospital and check the married section instead of having to check the single. To check married on my taxes instead of having to file single. To not HAVE to explain to my employer or anyone else how I can be married but still have to legally claim single.

I want my future children to be safe if something should happen to either of us. I want my possessions, my property, my belongings to be passed on to my spouse, my wife. Yes, I even want my insurance to carry.

And when the time comes for it, I want to be laid next to the one I loved when I am buried.

Now how could that possibly hurt you?


Sincerely,

Mrs. Winter"


"I shed tears of grief. For on November 5, 2008, a cruel, unjust and discriminating proposition was passed. Proposition 8 was passed. And it took away the fundamental rights of every American, of every human being. How can people so cruelly take away the freedom we have? Our government is not, excuse me, should not be based on religious beliefs. Despite the fact that the "majority" of the people believe Yes on Prop 8 [only by 3%], it is mostly because of their religious background. How can you shut down the very right all religions praise? To love? How can you deal with yourselves, how can you even look at yourselves in the mirror, knowing you caused millions of people pain? Prop 8, just like she says, is equivalent to mass genocide and hate crimes. Those who vote Yes to Prop 8 are the sinners. And I hope you go to Hell. For God will not want you, you who so cruelly denied people love.

PROP 8 IS HATE."

Today, I got into an argument with my friend. Let me tell you this one tidbit of information about myself: I despise close-minded people. A few hours ago I just realized how much of a close-minded bastard my friend is.

Let me tell you about him. I'm not giving his name here. He's racist, prejudiced, and every other bad thing that rhymes with those. He's obviously Korean [the fact that he's racist, and I don't care if that statement offends anyone because it's the fucking truth] and Christian.

We're both Christian. He's Protestant and I'm Catholic. [And yes, it may shock some of you that both are divisions of Christianity.] His dad is the minister [or whatever the fuck you call it] of his church. My dad was atheist before converting to Catholicism to marry my mom.

So yeah, I knew he hated other races [blacks, whites, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, you name it] and [ohmygodnofreakingway] homosexuals, but I never knew that he hated other religions.

Somehow [I don't remember how] we ended talking about homosexuality. He said it was wrong and that Jesus hates gays. Have you ever seen those Christian people who try to convert others? They say that God/Jesus/Santa Clause loves everybody. Are homosexuals not human? Obviously, Jesus must love gay people to or the words they spout out on the streets are just plain fucking lies. God loves everyone, okay guys? If He even exists. The Bible says that he loves everyone. That Bible story where it said God condemned Sodomy [look it up if you don't know what it is], Sodomy is a city. It doesn't necessarily mean gay people.

Then he continued on and bashed Catholicism. I'm not religious, okay? Obviously, I support gay marriage. But damn, I've been Catholic all my life and I believe in a lot of stuff, so how can I help it but to defend my religion?

He says that our "worshipping" Mary is wrong. Hm.

Let me make this clear to anyone who might misunderstand.

We DO NOT worship Mary. I repeat, Catholics DO NOT WORSHIP MARY.

I'm sure there are some Catholics who worship Mary, just as there could be Protestants who worship Mary. But CATHOLICISM DOES NOT INCLUDE THE WORSHIPPING OF MARY!!!!

We pray to her, just like how many people pray to their late relatives. We ask Mary [and people we've named "saints"] to watch over us and to guide us. Yeah, we have statues of them, but it's to acknowledge the sufferings they've gone through. We do not treat them as other gods and goddess. They are regular human beings who happen to be very virtuous. WE WORSHIP ONE GOD!

So he goes on and on about how we pray to Mary. What's so bad about praying to Mary? He says that Mary isn't so important that we need to pray to her. And I was like WTF? Giving birth to a baby like Jesus is not a piece of cake! Do you know how much she suffered for Him? How much all women have to suffer? And he says it's insignificant!

Up to this point, I was just defending my religion. He continues to say that it is wrong. I then say that they are no "right" and "wrong" is religion. Religion is religion. Religion is belief. Beliefs, especially those concerning God, are not proven. THERE IS NO DEFINITE PROOF THAT GOD EXISTS. Therefore, there aren't any rights or wrongs about religion. There is no one correct religion.

But he definitely thinks there is.

He disagrees with the fact that the United States of America allows its citizens to freely practice any religion of their choosing. He says there should be ONE religion, and that religion should be Christianity Protestantism [since he obviously believe Catholicism is wrong]. He even said it outright that Hinduism and Islam and Buddhism were "wrong" religions.

Now that made me break and made me curse him out.

Let this be a warning to all: I despise close-minded people. Whether be regarding race, sex, religion, or sexual orientation. I hate bigoted people. They can go to hell because they deserve it.

PS: For any Protestants reading this. Please remember that Catholicism is indeed Christianity. You must also know that you are not just "Christian" but Baptist, Methodist, etc. You cannot ignore the fact that Protestantism broke off from Catholicism. Don't spread around that we are not Christian, because like it or not, that is a sin. Disregarding our religion is cruel and unjustified. So don't do it.

PPS: I know not all Protestants are bigoted bastards, just as how not all Catholics are smiling angels. We have bad seeds in both and this is not to offend Protestants. Only those who are like my bastard of a friend.

In the United States of America, we are better then some countries because we, as free citizens, are allowed to freely practice any religion. We believe in what we believe and no one can dictate it. Therefore, since we are not governed by one religion, why the hell is homosexuality not accepted? We say we are free from the restraints that are religions, yet they are still there, in the shadows. All politicians, Christian or not, must remember that this country is not completely Christian. So homosexual bonding [if "marriage" is too hard a term for you] must be legalized. It is a MUST. Or else, it is taking away the freedoms given to us by the Constitution. And that is injustice. LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE.

End Rant.

Yo~! I made this LiveJournal a long time ago and I'm finally using it! LOL But I fail epically. I have no idea how to use LJ. >< It's so complicated for me [even though I think it should be pretty straight foward]. I'm a Facebook/Myspace type of girl. However, I really do want to use LJ so I can write my inner thoughts and ideas and random stuff. But I doubt anyone's going to read it. -.-

So anyone out there with any helpful hints please tell me cause I can't get anything out of the hints LJ provides me. xD

Cheers~!