06/13/2023
I write this post in efforts to overcome the shame I am feeling about not being ready for the June 24th show I have been prepping for. To remind myself that this journey is a process. MY PROCESS. And I need to love myself along the way in every shape and form. That failing short of a lofty goal, still puts you light years ahead of where you started.
Even as I wrote this post I was incredibly uncomfortable, because I am not someone who likes to post many photos like this. It’s just not my personality to want attention for my body, but shame is something that crushes the ambition and hearts of so many people because we don’t share it. We want to project the perfect life and perfect body at all times. That’s simply not reality! So while I am proud of the physique I have been able to sculpt (At 30!!!), I have to love my body as it looks at every stage of this process:
Photo 1 - (left) side chest, June 2023, 200 lbs, age 30; (right) side chest, August 2020, 230 lbs age 28.
Photo 2 - (left) side tricep, June 2023, 200 lbs, age 30; (right) side tricep, February 2016, 205 lbs, age 23.
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