It’s important we care about what we put in our bodies. At the end of the day, we all want to be healthy, right?

But what happens when the desire to be healthy turns into an obsession with so-called “healthy” and “clean” eating? What if the idea of eating something “unhealthy” makes you so anxious that you would rather spend hours upon hours in the kitchen, meal-prepping food for days and days to come? What if the desire for “clean eating” starts consuming your every thought and stops you from enjoying time with your friends and loved ones?

We all experience days when we don’t feel good in our skin. Whether we feel bloated, unattractive, or insecure, having these feelings is part of being human. It’s important though, we those days don’t outnumber the ones when we feel good or at least neutral about our bodies.

I've recently come across a comment in a fitness community on Facebook; it was a comment from a girl who shared her feelings that seeing before and after photos of people on the internet made her anxious and negatively affected her mental health.

She wrote something that resonated with me, and that, I believe, will resonate with many of you as well. She wrote that when people share their before and after photos, it's usually perceived as if the "before me" was unhappy, "fat" and ugly, whereas the "new me" is lean, toned and pretty. The "new me" is the one that is celebrated by others.

Quite logically, it makes the impression that the before version of that person wasn't good enough because of their weight/appearance.