Spring break is right around the corner. For most teenage and college girls, this usually involves an extensive diet. I know it usually does for me. Some will do it the right way; in the months leading up to the spring season, they will hit the gym every day, and their meals will most likely involve a lot of kale, quinoa and a variety of other things that they’ll convince themselves taste good.

But the other dieters, my past self included, can’t really consider themselves to be “dieting.” About a month before spring break, these people will realize they need to change their entire body in this short span of time. Girls will start eating nothing but lettuce, water and green juice, and they’ll neglect even the simplest thing, such as eating a carb to give you energy. Instead, they practice a hardcore meal plan that doesn’t really consist of meals.

And all for what? To look good in a bathing suit? That’s justifiable, all until you actually go on spring break and throw your diet away to gorge on what you missed out on for the past month, and then you’re right back to square one. Our bodies aren’t meant to be put into extreme mode like that. That’s why those “Lose 20 pounds in just two weeks!” headlines on magazines are hoaxes. Because yes, while such drastic eating habits will reform your body for the event you’re trying to look good for, as soon as you bite into that burger, or that doughnut, your body will be all out of sorts.

Our society has all kinds of promoters for losing weight quick. I’ve fallen for them myself. If Kylie Jenner uses Skinny Mint Tea, I should too, right? Disclaimer: it doesn’t work that well. I tried to use it leading up to summer vacation last year, and I found my body wasn’t appreciative of how I was treating it. Drinking tea or doing a juice diet isn’t going to change your body overnight. All it does is mess with your body chemistry and once the cleanse is over, you’re right back where you started.

Try to take some pressure off yourself in this next month leading up to spring break. While it's extremely cliché, your body is actually perfect the way it is. Don’t listen to those voices in your head telling you otherwise. One Krispy Kreme doughnut isn’t going to change how you look in a bathing suit, but neither is that new lettuce diet that celebs are promoting. So why torture yourself and neglect your body from the things it craves? Doughnuts are too good to be turned down.