To my girlies: Don’t be scared to EAT
Hi!! I thought I would share this with my fellow women because I felt it’s been so so helpful in my fitness journey.
For the last two years, I’ve been in a calorie deficit, not enough to harm me, but to keep me in the same place. By doing this, I thought I would become leaner and have more muscle tone. Instead, I found myself in constant war with my body, not liking how I looked and wondering why I barely had ANY muscle tone despite working out regularly. I was super skinny but I didn’t look how I wanted to look because I barely had muscle.
This year, I decided to start eating maintenance. I started feeling better after awhile, and decided to start bulking for the first time in my life. In the past few months, I’ve actually gotten LEANER than I was and I have way more muscle tone now! I was so scared to eat that I was chronically depriving my body of nutrients it needed to grow muscle. I can lift more now, see actual progress, and feel more energetic than I have in years.
So, if any of my fellow women relate to this story and are scared to gain weight but aren’t satisfied with their lack of muscle tone, please don’t be scared to eat! I know society has these insane beauty standards and look down upon certain weights, but truly, the weight on the scale doesn’t matter. I weigh more than I ever have in my life but I also look better than I have in my entire life.
I hope this gives some people the push they need to take that first step 🫶