At 50, the author embarks on her first professional bodybuilding competition, marking a remarkable journey from personal loss, depression, and unhealthy habits to empowerment through strength training. Competing as a bodybuilder for three years, she credits her transformation to adopting a new philosophy on food and fitness that empowers women to embrace muscle over thinness. Through her research, she highlights the significance of muscular strength in women's health and challenges societal norms that have historically pressured women to minimize their presence.
I had spent decades chasing thinness, eating less, running more, and trying to shrink. But in my new orbit of athletes, I began to want something different.
The shift I experienced—better food, heavy weights, little to no cardio—was so transformative, both physically and mentally, that the journalist in me had to dig deeper.
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