Bikini Season Is Coming: How Does Your Beach Body Affect Your Hormones?
As your feed fills up with pre-summer swimsuit ads, you may be considering a crash diet or workout challenge to get beach ready. But before you try to spring clean away all of your body fat, make sure you know what you’re missing.
With summer around the corner, most of us have at least a few bikinis added to cart. While some swimsuit ads have gone fully “body positive,” influencers, celebrities, and the rest of social media often still promote the same svelte physique that has always been considered a bikini body. The rise of drugs like Ozempic makes staying extra thin even easier for celebs willing to dish out the cash, and it’s not uncommon for fitness influencers to claim that for the small investment of 500 sit-ups a day, you too can have rock-hard abs. Meanwhile, the “healthy at any size” movement claims there’s nothing wrong with obesity and the only downside to extreme physiques is fatphobia. So, is fat just an accessory to put on and take off seasonally? And why do we even have it anyway?