Dr. Tabatha Barber gained 5 to 25 pounds in a few months while training hard and eating strictly for a bodybuilding competition. At 5'2", the weight came on fast despite doing everything right, leaving her confused about what was happening.
It's a pain to purpose story, and I'll be brief, but in a nutshell, way back in my 20s when I was doing everything right, the eating, the exercising, everything was regimented, I was disciplined, the scale was going up instead of down. I was actually getting ready for a bodybuilding competition. So that tells you the level of discipline that I was kind of in at the time. And every single time I got on the scale, every single time I had to do a weigh-in to check in with my coach, The scale was going up 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 pounds came onto my little 5'2" body in the matter of a few months.
