Now a days everyone follows social media in some forms, be it Instagram, Facebook or just magazines, the first thing people see is stick thin models in magazines, celebs that have just given birth but back in there size 6 clothes looking like they haven't even been pregnant.
Now I personally know how depressing this can be, you look at these pictures and look at your body and then beat your self up because you don't look like that, you have a little extra body fat, you have given birth and you don't just snap back in to shape the next day etc.
But are the pictures that you see actually real? Are the photo shopped to make that celeb look slim etc? 9 times out of 10 these pictures are photoshopped, they are air brushed to make the person look amazing, Celebs look slim, stars that have given birth look amazing..
Is this fair to the young teenage girls or boys out there, that are already self conscious about the way their body looks? No it makes them suddenly go on stupid daddy diets that in the long run can lead to serious mental health problems, I'm not saying all but i am saying it can happen.
I follow loads of people on Instagram who have amazing bodies, chissled and nice size back sides etc, but are actually all of them real or are they photo shopped to make them look like that, with added filters in? Chances are majority of them are and the minute I stopped stressing that I don't look like them, and accepting that they may not even look like that and I should just accept who I am, was when I actually started to see results.
It has been proven that those 6 week transformation programmes that go around Instagram do not work, they are just out to get you to spend your money, the diet is very basic and not enough calories for the average person as the diets are just a general meal plan, obviously they will get some results and they post them but the average person won't change much in 6 weeks due to the fact your body has only just started to get used to change.. Some of the stars doing these 6 weeks transformations actually use photo shop themselves which I think is really bad because if you can't be accepting of your own body how do you expect your followers to be of their bodies?
Magazine diets
We often see diets that pop up in magazines promising to loos 7lbs in a week drop a dress size in 2 weeks etc, you all start to follow them and you feel hungry whilst doing them, you then stop the diet as it is only 2 weeks log and go back to eating how you were before and pile on the weight again.
The diets in the magazines are roughly 1000-1500 calories which for the average person is way to low, you can't stick to it for a long time as your get hungry and then your start to binge and this leads to yo to diet.
These diets are just written out without any kind of person in mind, the food itself is fine, but if you were going to follow them you would need to make sure that you bulk it up, make sure the portions are bigger, you eat food that you actually like and make sure if you exercise then you up your calories as you really need to eat to perform, a car can't run on no fuel so a body is exactly the same
