Honestly, this one is just me yapping
Sep 30, 2026 · 20 min · 7 segments
Another Q&A, mostly about growth!
Sep 30, 2026 · 20 min · 7 segments
Another Q&A, mostly about growth!
So first and foremost, what was the hardest part for me mentally when I first had to bulk for bodybuilding? And I grabbed this question because I talked about it with my team in August.
And I want to say that it comes from both like a cultural standpoint, like how I grew up and like some of the things that influenced me when I was a kid and when I was growing up and then also just like the environment that I've been in.
So mentally, what was hardest for me to gain weight was really just like my hyper fixation on certain body parts.
So when I was a kid, and like I vividly remember this, I have a cousin whose husband is a bodybuilder and he got her into bodybuilding.
And I remember asking, like, how did you get your stomach so flat to my cousin? And she was like, oh, it's diet.
And I just remember like wanting to have a flat stomach for almost all of my childhood, teenagehood.
And naturally, I hold a lot of body fat like in my waist and my stomach and So before I ever started bodybuilding, I was always just really hyper fixated and obsessed with wanting to have a six pack or wanting to have a flat stomach.
It comes from being around these swim girls growing up that had flat stomachs and just me comparing my body to theirs, which I think is a very... normal teenage thing to do like as a teenager you're just searching for acceptance and you want to be like everybody else and so I think that that part when I did start actually seriously bodybuilding and I had to go through like intentional growth seasons like mentally accepting that like I was gonna put body fat on in my stomach and And just like accepting that, you know, like not trying to fight it anymore, because I feel like that was just something that I always hyper fixated on.
So that was that for me was the hardest part mentally was like understanding that it's OK.
Number one, it's OK for me as a woman to have body fat on my stomach because it's a biological part of like who I am.
in order to feel safe, like there has to be a little layer of body fat there and that it's a very normal thing for a woman to store body fat there.
And number two, like once I could understand the biological and scientific aspect of it, like number two was like accepting it and loving it.
Have I ever cut a growth phase short because I was uncomfortable with how I looked? Yes, I have, unfortunately.
So first and foremost, what was the hardest part for me mentally when I first had to bulk for bodybuilding? And I grabbed this question because I talked about it with my team in August.
And I want to say that it comes from both like a cultural standpoint, like how I grew up and like some of the things that influenced me when I was a kid and when I was growing up and then also just like the environment that I've been in.
So mentally, what was hardest for me to gain weight was really just like my hyper fixation on certain body parts.
So when I was a kid, and like I vividly remember this, I have a cousin whose husband is a bodybuilder and he got her into bodybuilding.
And I remember asking, like, how did you get your stomach so flat to my cousin? And she was like, oh, it's diet.
And I just remember like wanting to have a flat stomach for almost all of my childhood, teenagehood.
And naturally, I hold a lot of body fat like in my waist and my stomach and So before I ever started bodybuilding, I was always just really hyper fixated and obsessed with wanting to have a six pack or wanting to have a flat stomach.
It comes from being around these swim girls growing up that had flat stomachs and just me comparing my body to theirs, which I think is a very... normal teenage thing to do like as a teenager you're just searching for acceptance and you want to be like everybody else and so I think that that part when I did start actually seriously bodybuilding and I had to go through like intentional growth seasons like mentally accepting that like I was gonna put body fat on in my stomach and And just like accepting that, you know, like not trying to fight it anymore, because I feel like that was just something that I always hyper fixated on.
So that was that for me was the hardest part mentally was like understanding that it's OK.
Number one, it's OK for me as a woman to have body fat on my stomach because it's a biological part of like who I am.
in order to feel safe, like there has to be a little layer of body fat there and that it's a very normal thing for a woman to store body fat there.
And number two, like once I could understand the biological and scientific aspect of it, like number two was like accepting it and loving it.
Have I ever cut a growth phase short because I was uncomfortable with how I looked? Yes, I have, unfortunately.
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