With Spring Break 2017 beach trips and tropical cruises for most college students quickly approaching, you may have noticed the gym becoming more and more crowded at all times throughout the day. Then again, maybe not?
As college students, mainly girls, are very concerned with being confused as twins with a beached whale on Spring Break, starting their New Year's resolutions a lil' later by hitting up the gym and munching on only veggies for a whole month is the norm.
Rant #1: Gym regulars NEED to stop ridiculing people starting their fitness journeys. Everyone has to start someone to reach their short and long-term goals. Yes, the gym will be more crowded after New Year's with "Resolutioners," but sadly, get over it or install your own home gym if other people working to improve themselves bothers you that badly. At the end of the day, everyone at the gym is there for one common purpose.
What does judging other's bodies do for you? It's sure as hell not making you any better looking. On the subject of Lady Gaga's Super Bowl performance, in what world having the confidence to sing AND dance in a two-piece costume in front of, not only thousands of fans in a stadium, but also millions on viewers on TV, a bad thing?
Rant #2: The app FaceTune is the devil's work for college girls across the country. Basically, if you haven't heard of FaceTune (shocking) it's an easy photoshopping app that allows people to alter their bodies (i.e. make themselves skinnier) with a few taps on a phone screen. For the love of all things beautiful, stop using this app. You don't look that skinny in person, your Instagram followers know you don't look that in person, so why bother? To make yourself feel better? Just because you can spend ages editing your photos doesn't change your insecurities inside, the number on the scale, or how you look in a bikini. So spare yourself the agony and go to the gym. There's no secret life hack to getting your dream body.
If Aerie, a multi-billion dollar company with a popular social platform can stop photoshopping their models bodies for their bra, underwear, and sleepwear campaigns, so can you. #AerieReal
On that note, accept your body for what it is in the moment. Yes, everyone has insecurities, but the first step in a new, healthy lifestyle is loving your body from step one. If you accept your outer beauty from the beginning, the small improvements and successes are that much more enjoyable.
"You have two homes: Your body & the Earth, treat them nicely."
The moral of the story is to accept who you are, with the skin you're in. Accept that you are flawed, accept that you want to make changes and strive for something better. You're body is essentially your home, take care of it.
