Let’s talk about body image✨

Written By: Jazzie Lyric Mack, NASM, CPT

i made a post on my instagram about my reverse transformation and i want to go a little deeper into body goals

what even are real body goals? for the past few years i have commented under sooooo many girls pictures saying something along the lines of them being “body goals”. but it’s funny how all of those girls were different shapes and sizes. some girls were more curvy, some girls were super lean, some girls had bigger glutes while others didn’t. this shows me that i clearly don’t have a clear vision on what my body goals genuinely are. but i shouldn’t even be basing how i want my body to look based off how other people’s body’s look. my body goals should be specific and realistic for me. we cannot let ourselves look at other people and envy what they have and try to model our bodies to resemble theirs. this is because it will most likely never happen and it will cause us to never truly be happy with ourselves and how we look. 

i have been wanting to grow my glutes for a while now, i haven’t always been the most consistent, but i am guilty of looking at other girls on instagram with glutes i wish i had and getting so self conscious because i don’t have that. lots of girls are naturally gifted with a good butt while other girls worked their asses off to get the butt they have. and i shouldn’t let that discourage me from reaching my goal and think i’m not as pretty or desirable as them. even if i do 1000 hip thrusts everyday, if i’m not meant to have the glutes i see on instagram, then i have to be okay with that and work with what i got. 

i have to be my own body goals and love the body i am in. i should not be seeking to be other girls “body goals” because that’s not going to give me the satisfaction i need for myself. if i don’t genuinely love myself and see my body as beautiful, it doesn’t matter how many people tell me i look great and say i am “body goals”. i want every girl that reads this to look in the mirror and tell themselves that they are their own body goals💙