The Best Summer Diet

Summer is around the corner.

Time to get ripped, lose those five pounds you’ve put on in winter, tone your butt for your perfect bikini figure, get rid of your cellulite and your muffin top. Oh and did I mention, it’s time to diet?!

It’s the same old story. Groundhog day.

Once again, we’re bombarded with these messages that shame us, belittle us and make us focus on all the wrong things.

Every year, instead of being excited about the warmer temperatures, the long evenings spent outside, the time at the water or the barbecues with friends, millions of women (and men) freak out about their upper arms, their thighs and their hips, terrified to show some skin, terrified of being judged.

And so we diet, we cut out, we reduce and we negate ourselves all the fun that summer brings with it.

It’s sad. It’s frustrating. It’s kinda dull.

That’s why I say: No More!

Let’s stop this nonsense and instead of fretting about our weight, let’s focus on the sunshine, the green leaves, the blue skies and the smiles that summer brings with it. Let’s take our lives back, put on those bikinis even if we don’t have the perfect body and show how beautiful we really are.

Let’s start a self-love revolution and shock the world with “real bodies”, “real beauty” and “real body-acceptance”. Let’s be the change. 

Let’s be honest; we’re all suffocating.

We’re numbing our feelings, our experiences in this world by living a lie.

We’re hiding behind the calories, the numbers, the weight in order to stay small. We’re locking ourselves into the illusion of being a body instead of freeing ourselves by realizing we’re so much more. 

This summer, let’s walk towards freedom.

Let’s commit to stepping outside, eating ice-cream when we feel like it, going hiking when we want.

Let’s commit to showing our bodies, indulging in the beautiful colors of this season.

Let’s commit to eating when we’re hungry and stopping when we’re full.

Let’s commit to indulging in fresh fruits and seasonal veggies, tasting the sunshine in our mouths.

Let’s commit to spreading joy beyond our bodies and with our talents.

Let’s commit to shifting our perspective and seeing our true beauty.

Let’s commit to seeing the beauty in being healthy and forgetting about wanting to look a certain way.

Let’s commit to starting the best summer diet in the world: No diet at all. [Tweet this]

Let’s commit to simply being true to who we are!

If you’re in, then share this post and write a comment below. Are you going to enjoy this summer or will you diet in order to perpetuate a certain beauty ideal?

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