Negatives; an overwhelming pressure to get yourself ready for bikini season, the need to eat healthy and avoid carbs, having to get all kinds of skin out on social, waves of guilt if you haven’t been to the gym for two days, needing to sleep with a fan every night to ensure your skin doesn’t practically melt.
More to the point, summer heightens all of this especially when you can’t open Instagram without being bombarded with an endless grid of sun-kissed, beautiful women creating summer content we all wish we could recreate ourselves.
I know that from personal experience, the week before I go away, I’m running around in a desperate attempt to secure the ‘perfect’ holiday wardrobe, trying on at least thirty pieces of swimwear to just find one that I like, getting my nails, lashes, brows done and spending a solid month in the gym because I know that for the entirety of the trip I’ll be eating pasta and pizza.
Instead, embracing what you have and finding swimwear that looks good on your body rather than a general body shape is much healthier and you’ll feel much more confident on holiday if you have a healthy relationship with your body.