Losing Belly Fat

Ajah Chah, a Buddhist teacher, said, and I quote roughly here, "If it shouldn't be happening, it wouldn't be happening."  I say the following, women, "if we shouldn't have bellies, we wouldn't have bellies".  I might send that out to you men as well.  We are a nation obsessed with our bellies:  too fat, not flat, too curvy, too big, not sexy, a turn-off, the evil face of the mirror, need I go on?  Women read every suggestion they can on how to lose their bellies.  But what if they are meant to be there?  What if they are meant to pooch and round out?  What if they need to be accepted for their ability to stretch around a baby and hold in our organs and support our backs? What if they are a necessary part of our body???  Well, then we would have to hold belly rallies, take pictures of our real bellies and show them off.  Stop the touch ups done to model bellies in pictures and the continual surgery performed on perfectly normal parts of ourselves.  We would have to protest in a large way and teach the loves of our lives and our children to choose belly love and lose the belly fat syndrome.  Who is with me?  Can we have a belly in?  Can we ask Obama to get a Belly platform?  I kid, but the deadly facts of eating disorders are no joke.  The self hatred deep in the belly, yes belly, of many women kills their personality, their vigor and spirit.  Join me in the Belly Revolution and do the following:  Place your hand on your belly and send in warmth and love.  Tell your best friend about your newly found, long missing body part and share the love.  Stop hiding it behind fashion that flattens and go for comfort.  I wish you strength in this very difficult battle.