"Your Summer Body Starts in The Winter."
A body for every season.
“Your summer body starts in the winter, so starting today, January 1st, no more excuses.” A thin blonde in my phone doesn’t tell me her credentials as much as show them, lifting a thin, stretchy tank top to show visibly defined abs.
Your summer body starts in the winter, so starting today, January 1st, no more excuses. You’ve always wanted to learn how to make your own icecream, so when your niece visits you, you can make her favorite flavor: pink peppermint with chocolate chips. Why don’t we pull out the mixer? Your summer body won’t be able to make this recipe if your winter body doesn’t know how to do it.
“Your summer body starts in the winter, so shut everything off, go ghost mode, and emerge from the season unrecognizable. If you follow my program, by June 1st, no one will recognize you, and everyone will be jealous.” This one is a muscled guy in his 30s. He has a supplement range of products, linked with his videos. They are, functionally, laxatives.
Your summer body starts in the winter, so shut the electronics off, and emerge from the season more recognizable to yourself, and those who care for you. If you follow this advice, by June 1st, you’ll be ever more at home in who you are, and the idea of what others think about who you are will be much quieter. Your body also won’t be as afraid of them. No product can give what you already have in you.
“Your summer body starts in the winter, so it’s time to get snatched and skinny. I used to run long distances and lift weights and play soccer with my little sister, but now all I do is the workouts I think have the best chance of making the pounds melt off. Your summer body could be perfect like mine, too, if you just do the work you don’t want to.”
Your summer body starts in the winter, so it’s time to get reconnected to what it used to be like to just play for the sake of joy. It’s time to wonder what type of sport or movement you’ve given up in adulthood, when it was no longer as easy of an option, and before every movement had to have an end product in mind. You once dreamed of climbing steep hills, running and jumping into swimming pools, riding bikes with your best friend when freedom was a new invention to your 12 year old self. Your summer body is perfect, too, if you just reconnect with the parts of yourself others don’t encourage you to.
I consider myself one of the lucky ones when it comes to my relationship to food and my body. I was raised with older brothers who ate a lot, and had a dad who enjoying jogging, so he did, and playing with us in the backyard, so he did, and being strong, so he lifted weights. I’ve internalized most of these ways of being in the world, and it is a lucky thing. It was when I was 13 years old, and grew 4 inches in a summer, and no one commented on my body. That was an additional privilege to the luck of how I was raised to know and be in my body.