Are You Beach Body Ready?

Anyone seen these Protein World adverts?


People have started to alter them.
These two bloggers recently posed by the poster in their bikinis.

What do you think about this? I think the girls posing alongside the poster are sharing a great message about body image and how we perceive women.

#eachbodysready

I was just about to pick up another brownie. Thank you for reminding me that I should not break my diet even more than I did yesterday.

On to the billboard, I think it is quite distasteful. I know girls who hate wearing swimming costumes/bikinis just because they're not toned, or have do not have a flat stomach. It should be about promoting health, not aesthetics. In reality, having a flat stomach is incredibly hard for a lot of women, let alone a toned stomach. Having a body like the one on the billboard is firstly incredibly hard to achieve, secondly it is incredibly hard to maintain, and thirdly almost impossible for many women. I know it would hurt a lot of women that already have body issues, even if they are healthy.

Boo hoo.

I was just about to pick up another brownie. Thank you for reminding me that I should not break my diet even more than I did yesterday.

On to the billboard, I think it is quite distasteful. I know girls who hate wearing swimming costumes/bikinis just because they're not toned, or have do not have a flat stomach. It should be about promoting health, not aesthetics. In reality, having a flat stomach is incredibly hard for a lot of women, let alone a toned stomach. Having a body like the one on the billboard is firstly incredibly hard to achieve, secondly it is incredibly hard to maintain, and thirdly almost impossible for many women. I know it would hurt a lot of women that already have body issues, even if they are healthy.

And you think the bodies of those male models in nearly all adverts that they are in are in anyway realistically possibly for a man who works full time and does anything other than sports in his recreational time?

Lol, nope.

I don't know why women seem to think this is solely a female issue.

Still, I also think the way people overreact to these sorts of things is quite ridiculous. Like, it's just a billboard, do you really ****ing think people are going to be like "woah, the billboard is right, I can't go the beach if I don't look like that?", no they won't and nobody even thinks that anyway.

Everyone is too concerned about how their own body looks to even start considering how somebody else's does...

No I find the male equivalents to that billboard equally as distasteful, since the billboard is targeting women, I think it was appropriate to address this issue in regards to women.

I agree that some people overreact to these issues, but that does not mean they are not distasteful. The billboard isn't that big of a deal, there are bigger issues out there. I am merely pointing out that things such as the billboard, and many other advertisements etc. set unrealistic/had to achieve ideas to what bodies should look like, for men and women. I didn't say that the billboard itself says that no you can't go to the beach if you don't have a similar body, I said that I know girls that feel that they cannot dress in swim suits because of what they set they're standards to. This billboard is only showcasing that there is pressure out there for people to have perfectly toned, slim bodies (or muscular for men).

No I find the male equivalents to that billboard equally as distasteful, since the billboard is targeting women, I think it was appropriate to address this issue in regards to women.

I agree that some people overreact to these issues, but that does not mean they are not distasteful. The billboard isn't that big of a deal, there are bigger issues out there. I am merely pointing out that things such as the billboard, and many other advertisements etc. set unrealistic/had to achieve ideas to what bodies should look like, for men and women. I didn't say that the billboard itself says that no you can't go to the beach if you don't have a similar body, I said that I know girls that feel that they cannot dress in swim suits because of what they set they're standards to. This billboard is only showcasing that there is pressure out there for people to have perfectly toned, slim bodies (or muscular for men).