Anonymous #1 20w

110% yes!! Heavy emphasis on strength training, that’s so life-changing. I’ve gotten to a point where I’ve lost a ton of fat and muscle and have been told I look ill and weight training saved me sooo much!! It’s honestly the best, your metabolism gets faster, you get to eat more, you get a full figure and are able to carry heavy stuff. I don’t think I’ve looked better in my life and I’m not even at my smallest weight.

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Anonymous OP 20w

Exactly! But women often times are discouraged from strength training/weight-lifting in fear of becoming to “bulky”. Ppl really underestimate how hard it is to become shredded as a woman. You’re really not going to get that body builder/muscle mommy look unless you’re in the gym a lot of gradually increasing weights/bulking/eating lots of protein

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Anonymous #1 20w

Plus we naturally loose muscle over time anyway. So if you don’t build a good base when you’re young you’re more likely to have brittle bones (osteoporosis) and other health issues. All these weight loss drugs are contributing to ppl wanting to be super skinni too

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Exactly! I don’t even lift weights rn (trying to build up the confidence to go to the gym alone) but even when I started prioritizing like fiber and filling meals instead of just eating low cal things I looked a lot healthier and you could start to see like muscle.

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Anonymous OP 20w

Yesss! At my smallest weight I did not look good. I honestly don’t think I started to look good until I came to college, I went through a second puberty, got a bit more of a curvy/hourglass figure but was also like a healthy weight bc I was cooking my own food and going on mental health walks

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