Fitness blogger from the UK Lucy Mountain posted a snapshot on Instagram where she compared the 2013 and 2018 beauty standards. The girl criticized her appearance five years ago.
According to Mountain, 2013 was, as it seemed to her then, a victorious year: she got into a form called "perfect." “I lost a significant amount of weight and thought I was leading a healthy lifestyle,” she said.
Following the then Instagram fashion, the blogger worked out in the gym, was malnourished, took synthetic fat burners, drank detox tea and constantly used anti-cellulite cream. She was sure that she was becoming perfect, but then the realization came to Mountain that in fact she was mocking herself.
As the girl said, by 2018, beauty standards have changed, and she no longer needs to be "a skinny model with burnt hair." “Correlation is not equal to causation. Now I have become more educated, I can look back and smile,”she said. The current perception of the ideal body for her now is not to dwell on it. “And thanks for the hair, which no longer looks like cotton wool,” the girl joked.
Subscribers supported Mountain, calling her example instructive and inspiring. Most agreed that the current fashion for a healthy body is more adequate than the pursuit of weight loss at any cost.
