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Published 20:44 27 Aug 2013 BST

Bathroom selfies and selfies in general have become notoriously popular since Instagram was bought over by Facebook.
Pictures of girls now flood your feed, with hashtags such #motivation #me #gym #healthy, resulting in replies from friends like, "OMG you look AMAZING," and "You’re so skinny, you bitch."
Well as many of us guessed the hashtag that should actually accompany these images is in fact #Opticalillusion.
Yes, thanks to this personal trainer Mel, we all have the weight loss selfies secret.
The trainer from MelVFtiness took this picture minutes apart to reveal that the images accompanying those irritating weight-loss adverts that pop-up online are nothing more than an optical illusion.
Mel posted this image to her Instagram account and detailed through the step-by-step instructions on how to obtain a body transformation from your bathroom.
“Check out my transformation! It took me 15 minutes. Wanna know my secret? Well firstly I ditched the phonewallet (fwallet) cause that shit is lame, swapped my bather bottoms to black (cause they’re a size bigger & black is slimming), Smothered on some fake tan, clipped in my hair extensions, stood up a bit taller, sucked in my guts, popped my hip- threw in a skinny arm, stood a bit wider #boxgap, pulled my shoulders back and added a bit of a cheeky/Im so proud of my results smile.
“Zoomed in on the before pic- zoomed out on the after & added a filter. Cause filters make everything awesome. What’s my point? Don’t be deceived by what you see in magazines & on Instagram.. You never see the dozens of other pics they took that wernt as flattering. Photoshop can make a pig look hotter then Beyonce. #selfy #fitness #transformation #fake #only15minutes (sic)”
Cue the surge of bathroom selfies on Instagram.
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