inspirational friday

Robyn Lawley posing for UK lingerie brand Boux Avenue.

Weekends are probably the toughest when it comes to sticking to the diet, mostly because I live with two guys that couldn't gain a pound even if they tried and follow a very strict diet consisting of Nutella, white flour tortillas and fatty cheese. So my house is always filled with temptations that get harder to resist the more time I spend around them. My roommates think a nice Saturday lunch consists of ordering pizza and breadsticks, and often I find myself starving, without anything healthy in the fridge (I usually go to the supermarket Sunday evenings), and trying to resist the delicious scents coming from inside that greasy box. 

This is why I need extra motivation on Fridays, and the reason behind 'Inspirational Friday'. I will post pictures of women I admire in the hopes of garnering enough strength to make it through another weekend without stuffing my face full of chocolate chip cookies. Inaugurating this soon-to-become a la parisienne tradition is Robyn Lawley. Who better to kick off a weekend full of healthy food (and perhaps even excercise!?) than a full-figured, gorgeous model that has already graced the cover of VOGUE Italia and ELLE? 

According to Skinny Vs Curvy's website, this beautiful gal, age 23, is 1.83 meters tall and a size 12 (in Mexico that is equivalent to a size 34 according to Google) and her measurements are 91-81-106 (in cm). This translates into one drop-dead gorgeous woman with a full figure that obviously doesn't starve herself to fit someone else's conception of "pretty" but also stays fit and healthy. If you don't believe me, just look at that picture up there: her legs are toned but not stick-thin and her waist-to-hip ratio leaves enough room for sexy curves without the extra muffin top. 

In my fight with stereotypical beauty images, I've always thought that while beauty can come in all shapes and sizes, the number one thing to always keep in mind is health. You can be thinner than a breadstick or have more curves than an F1 track, and you can still be healthy. Not all catwalk models are anorexic, just like not all plus sized gals stuff their faces with crappy food. Most of the times genes determine your body shape, and it doesn't matter which one you got, you are still beautiful, but it is important to stay healthy. I was blessed with a super curvy body, so no matter how hard I try I will never be supermodel thin (I learned that the hard way many years ago). Yet that is no excuse to ingest carbs like a crazy person, because like Robyn Lawley up there I want to be curvy yet fit, so even though I cannot be described as super skinny, I do fit this other description: 'damn she's hot!'

Happy Friday everyone, and here's to a healthy weekend!