Follow these steps, to obtain your bikini body,
Cue 27 ways to change your shape.
Unachievable goals for the modern woman,
Just eat 700 calories, along with these shakes.Pages and pages in many different magazines,
Each with their own falsehood's to tell.
Why do we do this, year after year,
Torturing and shaming ourselves?So here's an idea, that may seem quite radical,
It won't involve starvation or any kind of miracle.
Buy a bikini and put it on,
Hurrah, celebrate what you've just done!
For this one simple act has achieved your goal,
Bikini on body, you've succeeded,
Now enjoy!Now, I'm not saying that I'm currently strutting about in a bikini! However, I have been inspired by the online bloggers who I follow, who demonstrate this principle. They have a body and they wear a bikini. And boy, do they look great in it! Confidence is key. That's still something I'm working on but if we could stop with the constant articles of how to achieve that perfect bikini body and instead encourage women to accept they already have a body deserving of wearing one.
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A Weight off My Mind - Time to Live
PoetryRegardless of size, putting your life on hold until you reach that perfect weight, does no one any good. This will be my collection of poems reflecting on societies obsession with weight and size and the effect this has on us and how we can change...