I read this fact on the America’s Second Harvest Website, “In a country of abundance, it’s hard to believe that Americans waste over 96 billion pounds of food in just one year while 25 million Americans go hungry.”
The day I read that, I decided that I would let go of whatever happened to the leftovers at parties. I would learn to enjoy smaller portions of what I wanted to eat. And instead of buying my afternoon coffee delight of choice, loaded with sugar and calories to perk me up helping me forget that I have three more hours in an office with no windows, that day I donated the five bucks I would have spent to America’s Second Harvest. That donated five dollars equaled eighty meals for those in need, and it also gave me power over the helplessness I have always felt in regards to food.
Thus began my quest to figure out how my fat ass can save the world. I chose the name White Girl with a Fat Ass as a way to take this negative memory, which had once devastated me to snotty tears, and make it positive with laughter. To not let some 80’s movie drunken homeless wino forever label me as just a white girl with a fat ass. Instead I, well, sort of ended up branding my irreverent self White Girl with a Fat Ass but now I am making an empowering choice. Ok, that wasn’t nearly as inspiring as it sounded in my head but hopefully you get the gist.
Help me raise money and awareness for hunger relief while I strive to overcome lifelong food and body image issues. Ashamed at being unable to control my eating, I decided cleaning my plate wasn't helping starving children anywhere but there are positive things I can do every day to help end hunger and inspire myself to be healthy. If you’d like to donate towards my goal, CLICK HERE. If you want to peruse more of Kelly Jean’s foibles, visit her blog at www.jellykean.wordpress.com.
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