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Body Shaming

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I'm sure most of you have seen this image floating around facebook and I'm sure you have an opinion.  If you don't that's probably a good thing because maybe it means that you are happy with who you are and have found fulfilment in your life. I get what Maria Kang is trying to do.  She's trying to shock and motivate people by stepping just a bit beyond the typical "Here's what Body for Life did for me" testimonial. The problem is that she comes across like that friend of yours who joined the gym and started shopping at an organic food store and is now telling you all these facts about working out and diet and fitness and you think to yourself, "Could I just get one solid throat punch in and make this person shut up for 10 minutes?" Well, believe it or not, I was that person at one point in my life.  I'm sure I drove my friend nuts with all my blathering on about diet and fitness and working out.  This was probably about 10 years ag