Soon the summer and its formidable “ordeal of swimsuit “. To display a perfect body on the beach, we are ready for anything: follow a draconian diet, impose hours on the elliptical trainer, doing abs morning, noon and evening, eat salad at all meals, swallow food supplements … Even if it means sacrificing our well-being.
This Tuesday, March 21, 2017, the French blogger Elykilleuse took a rant against the diktats of thinness on Instagram. On her photo (already liked more than 5,500 times), we see a before / after of the blogger: on the right, she displays 5 kilos more … but a beaming smile. Like what, a hourglass is not necessarily synonymous with happiness!
“Health, well-being and serenity are worth more than chocolate bars”
“I stopped at the restaurant to take an hour to think between” oh damn the burger makes you want “but” it’s not good, I have to be careful “, she explains to her 109,000 subscribers. I stopped drooling (and ruminating) over my boyfriend’s burger and fries, I stopped blaming him for tempting me. I have stopped to play sports to lose weight, to compensate and I started doing it for pleasure. In short, the young woman decided to favor small, simple pleasures overobsession with thinness.
“One day I realized that I loved myself enough not to do all this on myself. I understood that I didn’t need it, that I didn’t need to do a diet like everyone else before the summer. I understood that I had the right to love my beads, I understood that I had the right to be myself, that health, well-being and serenity were worth more than a 6Pack (chocolate bars, editor’s note). I understood that I was more than a number. I learned to love myself: it takes time, effort, it causes doubts but I am so much happier today than 5 kilos behind! “
” The happiness does not depend on your body, but on the relationship you have with it ”concludes the young woman, originally from Strasbourg. An ultra-inspiring body positive speech, which we applaud with both hands!
