One of the biggest appeals when choosing a holiday destination is water. You do your research and you always want to know how far you are from the beach, scurry through Google image checking how blue the sea is, making sure there’s a pool at the hotel, what the distance is from the pool to your room, is there a poolside bar etc. etc.
Once you’ve booked in your perfect accommodation (which is ideally an ocean side room with a humongous pool bigger than the Hudson River) then you have to admit that the next think you start looking at is your body.
Everyone does it! It hits you that there will be moments that you’re going to be standing half naked in your dream holiday, and so you stare at yourself in the mirror criticizing what is staring back at you and then you hurriedly start planning out a 4 week diet plan, scowering the Internet for ‘get fit quick’ plans and crazy diets to shed the pounds, to make sure you can hold your head high in a bikini or board shorts next to all the other beach bods.
It’s not that you are giving into social pressure (maybe a little bit) and trying to fit into an unrealistic mold of what the media preaches is the perfect body of skin and bones; holidayers just wish toexude confidence in their own skin. And why shouldn’t you!? Like i said in a previous blog;
People work so hard for a majority of the year to blow out on a couple of weeks of pure Indulgence! Why not do this feeling fit, feeling healthy and feeling confident!
Indulge’s featured destinations are Miami, Las Vegas. Los Angeles, New York and Dubai; all of which are cities that are home to some of the most beautiful and sexiest people in the world (or at least this is what the public perceive them to be). These destinations reek of celebrities and their fad diets which enable them to wander beach cities and pool parties without any physical flaws. It is only human nature that anyone feel some sort of pressure to fit into a stereotypical size 0 body in these destinations. The important thing is to not loose site of your own goals. Don’t try and emulate stick figures that some may call celebrities. All you need to do is get fit, get healthy and the confidence will follow. With this confidence comes the ability to truly enjoy your holiday.
There is nothing worse than feeling negative about your self image when on holidays; the one time you want to let go of your inhibitions and feel a sense of authentic escapism.
One of Indulge’s favourite celebrity bikini bodies is Kim Kardshian who clearly embraces her womanly curves and looks amazing in a bikini. Gorgeous!
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