Obese and the City

I wanted to share a few more facts about obesity in America in both adults and adolescents!!

No problem with being 'thick,' 'valumptios,' 'loving your curves,' or anything else people say to themselves to make them feel better: just be healthy while loving every bit of your yummy self. ummhumm!!!


~Black and Mexican-American men with higher income or more likely to be obese than those with lower income
          *I guess since they can afford steak and potatoes with a side of ribs: eat up*
~Higher income women are less likely to be obese than lower income women
           *I blame society and it's views on women and pressure to stay unhealthy thin*
~Blacks have the highest obesity rate, followed by Mexican Americans, than Hispanics, so forth
           *these stats are in a previous blog post of mine*
~2010 results from CDC had Mississippi with the highest rate of 34%
      *Colorado the lowest 21%
      *Nebraska 26.9%
~Childhood obesity (6-11 yrs old) has increased from 7% in 1980 to 20% in 2008
~Teenagers (12-19 yrs old) an increase of 5% to 18% over same years
~Obese children are more likely to be obese adults and develop cardiovascular diseases


What am I doing to help the cause????


Step 1: Bring awareness through blog, and social platforms
Step 2: Volunteer to clean up parks and playgrounds for children to exercise
Step 3: Talk to young children about the importance of exercise or 'playing outside'
Future plans: Join local and national groups on the campaign: Develop and lead programs through organizations: Lead by example and live a healthier life!!!!  


Always site your sources:
Adults Obesity facts
Adolescent Obesity facts

My Black Hair Plight...

This is the story of my struggle to find someone to do my hair in "middle of nowhere," Indiana...

All my friends know I have been complaining about the area of which I now live due to my Husband's job (Praise the Lord of the blessing)

It took me away from the city that has everything...Atlanta...the Black Hollywood...

Since moving here I have resorted to shopping online, gave up finding good Sushi or Chinese food and a night life all together :(

Pre-hair plight...
       I have natural hair thus I need a good straightening, hydration machine, and blowout
       'Middle of nowhere' Indiana has already messed up my eyelashes, pedicure, body waxing, etc, so I'm justified in my fear of getting my hair 'did'
Start hair plight...
       Calling around to find a hairstylist I knew would be a struggle, however didn't expect to hear/use words or phrases such as:

• "We don't have anyone comfortable doing "Ethnic" hair"
• "We don't use a hot comb, fyi"
• "You don't have perm, are you mixed?"
• "Our 'Ethnic' stylist is no longer with us"
• "I have some black hair clients"
• "Hydration machine, what's that and why is it used?"

If I have to educated the stylist on proper hair drying techniques and/or put them up on new products they won't be getting this business

Plight continues...
 

3 things I'm obsessed with...

Disclaimer: This weeks obsessions may be a little strange because I'm a little delusional. Blame it on the diet, cause I'm hungry :(

1. Anxiety
  ~ I am having some serious pageant anxiety over my bikini body. The pageant is 30 days away and I can't be a fat embarrassment on stage. Where do I sign up to plus-size pageants?!?!
~Which completely goes against my obesity campaign!!

2. Eating healthy is way TOO expensive.
    ~When I become President I'm going to lower the cost of a Wendy's Apple Pecan Chicken Salad with extra pecans and homestyle chicken to .99 cents and raise the price of the cancer causing dollar menu to $6.00. That way people will want to eat healthy because it's cheaper.
  ~Also as President I will lower the cost of Almond Milk with 35 calories and add that to WIC

3. I love chicken wings!!!!

Cover up Everything

As my road to Mrs. United States continues, I am learning the art of perfection while on stage.

Lets be real for a brief moment, than we will go back to being plastic :)

     ~Real women have stretch marks, scars, birth marks, and some have tattoos~
I have a few of these, but I don't have any birth marks oddly enough, anywhoo I need to cover this up for pageantry. I can not go on stage with scarred up legs (I use to be a tomboy between the ages of 6-10) or stretch marks (either my thighs got bigger or smaller: no kids so no belly marks *sigh of relief*)

    ~Now lets be plastic~

I'm writing this so other people can learn how to cover up and appear to be flawless. 

These two products give roughly the same results but have major differences:

Airbrush Legs                                                     Dermablend

~ $10-14                                                             ~ $24-30

~ Is a liquid and runny                                       ~ Make-up based, easy to apply, not runny

~ Longer to dry                                                  ~ dries super duper fast

~ Major blending needed                                   ~ comes in many shades

I liked the Dermablend best in covering up stretch marks because it doesn't run and you apply it like make-up, it stays on longer because it's a little thicker, and it is used for tattoos and body cover-up.

When I used the Airbrush Legs for stretch marks it was grossly runny and a big mess. 

Here is a picture of my legs with Airbrush Legs:

The left leg has the treatment and the right is my natural leg. So it does work, I just had to doctor it too much for my taste. 

Ugh this beauty pageant work is going to be the end of me!!!!