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Posted on April 4, 2015April 5, 2015

McGill law student Simone Samuels awarded national scholarship for black students

I am forever grateful to FMC (now Dentons) and the BBPA for this scholarship.

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I tried to make my #oatmeal look pretty like all of the #smoothiebowls on @instagram . I present to you my oatmeal bowl. It's kinda similar to the one I posted a while back, but instead of blackberries, chocolate and coconut, I topped it with strawberries, #chiaseeds and coconut. Plus it's made with #almondbutter, so there's lots of healthy fats in here. -- It can be somewhat intimidating to post food pics on Instagram. I mean, have you seen some of those photos? Like on #thefeedfeed? I don't have the time (read: patience? Skill? Space? Props? DSLR?) to master food photography. -- And then when I was taking this picture, I noticed that my bowl was chipped. And what you will not see is that my balcony garden is dying (I did not get ONE pepper this year. Those damn aphids!) and I need to sweep/vacuum my floors. -- But I post anyways. -- I was listening to @yvonneorji and @luvvie podcast @jesusandjollof and I was reminded that perfection is the enemy of progress. So many times we wait for our art (or our lives!) to be perfect before we put ourselves out there. And so we remain stagnant, never sharing, and nothing happens. The truth is, things often "perfect" themselves while they are out there. -- Life is more like the second photo -- all mixed up, not perfect but still beautiful (or #brutiful to quote @glennondoyle ). -- Go ahead and share your imperfect art and imperfect life!

...also, beware of all that you see on social media. Lighting and posing are *everything.* This is the same person, same belly and photos taken within seconds of one another. I still have a belly. My belly rolllll. I have a full-on gut. My tummy is in full effect. It's my #paunch, my #pouch, and I didn't even have a baby to get it. Women with #pcos often carry their weight in their abdominal region (we often have fat distribution like what men have/where men tend to gain weight #appleshape ). It's a sign of #insulinresistance and #hyperandrogenism (higher male hormones). Just wanted to clear that up so that I don't have people out here thinking that I am hiding a six pack. I don't, and that's ok.

#PCOSAwarenessMonth By the end of the day today, I will have taught sixteen classes this week. SIXTEEN. 😪 (Plus I walked at least an hour each day -- life of a person with no car). I danced, I taught, I demo’ed (thank God!), I aqua kickboxed, I aqua jogged, I donkey kicked, I squatted, I lunged, I hip raised, I glute bridged, I chest flyed, I bicep curled, I tricep kickbacked, I shoulder pressed, I upright rowed, I piked, I crunched, I step aerobiced, I stretched, I hugged ppl and I sang -- not to mention all that I did in the pool (skiing, jogging, jumps, tucks...)... All 248lbs of me. It sounds like a bit of a contradiction doesn’t it? When people ask for weight stats, and hear a number like mine, they don’t envision someone who looks like me or someone with my level of activity. It’s one of the reasons that I became an instructor. #pcossucks and exercise is of key importance for women with #pcos, but I also had something to prove. In the end, I guess I ultimately proved something to myself. In my day to day, I don’t really see people who look like me and do what I do. I have, in turn, become my own role model. Every day, I get to be in-your-face, living proof of what fitness can look like. Weight is just a number. I thank God for this body, and the blessing to be able to do what I do -- getting fit and teaching and inspiring others. ❤ #pcospositivity #pcosphotochallenge Day 14 and 15 #pcosawareness (I'm only taking these random gym selfies so that I can have a pic for my caption. Doin' it all for the gram. 😂)

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#serenawilliams One of the reasons I try to celebrate myself every day. All the crap we have to put up with, all of the microaggressions, all of the hurdles and obstacles... constantly being misunderstood, sexualized, erased... doing twice as much work for a quarter of the recognition... code-switching, the self-censoring and censure from others, holding down our homes and our families, carrying the weight of the world, knowing that how I act/perform will affect how others like me will be seen/treated... Sometimes at the end of the day I sit down, pour myself a glass of sparkling water and pat my own self on the back because I'm still here. 🍾🍷 #blackwomen

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