Girl look at that body...

via Gawker

Summer is here!!! And that means bathing suits. Dun dun dun. 

I come from a college where someone is always workin it out. I think UVa is ranked as having some of the hottest coeds or some of the most physically fit? Either way, you can always see someone running around grounds rain or shine. And I'm not saying this is a bad thing. Working out is obviously great for the mind and body and I love to hit the gym. I just think that the health benefits often get warped when people make losing weight their goal.

There's a difference between working out to be healthy and working out to lose weight. One mind set implies that you love yourself enough to want to care for your body. The other says to me that you aren't happy with who you are and want to change. I don't necessarily think that it's wrong to want to change, but in a society that puts so much pressure on women's self-image, it's a thin line we walk. 

I can't sit here and act self-righteous and say that oh I've never wanted to change how I look. But it's funny, the more I try and eat healthy and limit myself, the more/worse I end up eating. I think that even if we we lose that extra 5 lbs we'll still find something to be unhappy with; it's the simple "if you give a mouse a cookie" conundrum. There will always be something.  So screw limiting what I eat; f diets. I just try and run every once in a while because after it all I feel good about myself and what my body can accomplish. 

And it's funny, I can get insecure sometimes while out in my bikini but then I see other people who aren't perfect but are flaunting what they got and I think "hell, I have nothing to be self-conscious about!" Confidence is even sexier! See the article that inspired me here!