Dear Summer Body

Everyone looks forward to the summer, but when your body doesn’t look like you want it to, it can be a rough season. Here’s what I want to tell my body over the coming weeks.

Dear Summer Body

You’re not quite was I was hoping for by now. I remember huffing and puffing up a hill in Portugal back to our hotel, in the blazing sun, wondering if my Dad was actually going to have to call a taxi for these last few steps…or a paramedic. I swore as soon as I got back I’d start my new life and this time next year I’d be a fitter, healthier me.

Not so much.

For a while there it did look like you were getting healthier. Note — not prettier or sexier, but healthier. I’d lost two stone through slimming world, started the Couch to 5K challenge and my joints no longer screamed if I walked a little briskly.

Cut to now and I’m depressingly weighing half a stone more than I was in Portugal. Oh God, the shame in writing that is actually crushing.

Well, Summer Body, this is this situation we’re in. There’s no going back now to magically change things so lets not bother dwelling on it eh?

Instead, here’s why I’m grateful for you:

That’s five whole things to be thankful for, Summer Body. Five. Now, I know there’s a million things to counter them — so I hope you’ll remember the below next time your anxiety creeps up your spine, into your brain and smashes your rose-tinted glasses. Here we go:

When your thighs are rubbing together so bad you think a fire might start. Your thighs touch which makes you one step closer to being a mermaid, so.

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