Once again I had to look up the word for the freewrite prompt. It’s not in wiki but heresy is:
Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs.
I guess I should know this word. A heretic is a person that has out-of-step beliefs. That would be the definition for Sharon French as well, since the day I was born.
I’d say that many of us on steem fit into this category. We are trying to step out of the mainstream and be part of a financial and information revolution. I am proud to be on this team for the most part.
Since I lost weight and started down this path to try to help others do the same, the most frequent comment I get is that I should not even bother trying. Just let all those fat people stay fat and go back to accounting.
When I started steeming, this is a new thing people can ridicule. "You are working in crypto? Now I know you are an idiot. And everyone is still fat, by the way."
This week has been discouraging, uplifting, and overwhelming. I've had a lot of unexpected steem "wins" and a number of horrible shocks as well.
I'm a person who believes in the good of this world and I'm normally very optimistic. Right now I am just tired. But look! Here is a post, so I'm not dead yet.
I’ve been promoting STEEM posts on Twitter for the whole time I have been here. Now the posts I want to promote all have nasty comments on them, so I don’t do the promotions. I'm so sad for the people with great posts that have these awful comments on them now. They often do not know they should not answer, and then it gets worse.
One lady with low rep upvoted all the bad comments with her dust votes. Normally, I would try to help her with minnow tips, but not today.
What would it be like to get a fat curie vote and then find the "c" word in many comments running down the page? Some of us know how that feels today.
I did send my recommendations to 
Here’s who I picked to recommend, and comments for some of them:
These people have programs to delegate their own sp to new people to help with the RC problem
Heretics, every one of them. I hope some of them get the 1000 sp prize. I think they all deserve more.
My post is for the #freewrite daily challenge by 
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Minnow tips!
Here is my latest minnow tips post if you struggle here at steem. This post has all of the ideas above and lots more.
These tips can help you even if you are not new.
Monday Minnow Tips for Everyone from @fitinfun
Contents of the Above Post
What should I do EACH DAY on STEEM with low power?
What to do with your STEEM
Are you shooting blanks with your votes?
Should you use an autovoter?
Join qurator
Do not post to nowhere
Why bother to comment?
How and Why to use kryptonia
How to get Upvotes
For Twitter Users
How and Why to lease delegated sp
Curation Trails
Using Discord
Please Help Me Keep Helping at STEEM
A miracle has occurred and I have now paid my rent and wifi due on Februry 15. See below for ideas of how you can maybe help me succeed for another month after that.
Please follow my blogs:
We all post on Busy most days, where their upvote for us is based on the collective SP of our followers. We follow back, because we love you.
Put my blogs on your curation trail
Delegate SP to any of us
Upvote any of our older posts which are close to payout.
If you can "only" vote some posts - It is enough.
If you can "only" send 1 STEEM - It is enough.
If you can "only" offer advice for how I can do better - It is enough.
If you can "only" offer encouragement and good wishes - It is enough.
If you can do more and think my presence here has value, I hope and pray you will.
This is the power of STEEM.
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Statistics say that only 5% of people with health resolutions for the New Year will still be on track after Super Bowl Sunday. Is your fitness equipment still out handy, and are you still on a "diet?"
I lost "Half My Size" eight years ago by using natural methods. I started on December 5th and did not give up. You can do it too!
This is Sharon 
Please follow along or contact me directly if you would like some individual help with weight loss and health. Anyone can do this if I did.