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The panic in front of the bikini figure: When am I finally happy with myself?

How skinny legs have to be for a bikini?
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  1. I'm in my mid 30s and can not help it. Every spring, the panic seizes me that my body in a bikini could shock others.
  2. Bikinifigur: What does that mean?
  3. Why Body Acceptance has to arrive in my head
  4. Finally, do not panic before the summer

I'm in my mid 30s and can not help it. Every spring, the panic seizes me that my body in a bikini could shock others.

How many Crash Summer diets are I doing this year? Mhhhh, times recalculated: At about 15 years old, I thought the first time: Here is a bacon rolls less or because a smaller rounding would be quite nice. Today at 35, I still think so. That would have imagined my 15-year-old I certainly different. I was never really "too" fat, but a few pounds down would have been nice. So why can not I just get rid of the pressure of the bikini figure?

Bikinifigur: What does that mean?

Wikipedia writes: "Bikini figure as a term for a beauty ideal is a buzzword that is used primarily in lifestyle and fitness magazines, women's magazines and tabloids in articles about fitness training and diets for weight loss. " Aha, I think. A beauty ideal, then. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder and mainly mine is in front of the mirror. Why am I still unable to accept my body in summer as I do in winter? Is it really only the clothes or the bikini?

No, the difference is in my head. While I'm always quite happy with myself in winter, Bodyshaming time comes automatically with the first days over 15 degrees .

Why Body Acceptance has to arrive in my head

Tess Holiday is not shown on Facebook in bikini because she is too fat? I do not like it at all. An angry smiley must be on Facebook. Plus-size-model Ashely Graham, who definitely wears a 42 and bigger, I like in a tight dress and she gets every time a Like me on Facebook. But what brings me the whole medial body-acceptance, when I stand in front of a mirror in the spring and it ruffles my face in front of the beach. Nothing.

Nice and good, that being fat at once is chic and no longer harmful to health. But until this acceptance has also arrived in the locker room at H & M, when I try on a bikini panties in 42 and that does not even cover my half ass, it probably still takes.

Because honestly, when I'm standing in the morning in the subway station and staring at a billboard with a bikini belle, I do not think, despite the whole Body Acceptance movement: "Oh well, that my body has so many dents udn Pölsterchen " but only " Oh, with me it will be time for a juice cure ".

Finally, do not panic before the summer

The good thing is: In winter, rarely does anyone see me in a bikini. A comparison between summer and winter actually does not come about. It only arises in my head. So what, if I just did not do it anymore, just let my stomach, belly, or start the next diet in the fall?

Because actually the work is not with the society, but with me. When I start accepting my body in such a way that what the famous plus-size models are already doing today, namely simply enjoying the summer, is going to be normal, then I've made it. And then it just means to me: "You want a bikini figure? Step 1: Put on a bikini Step 2: Done."

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