MY TRANSFORMATION STORY | Fitness Q&A

hey guys today i'm going to be sharing with you guys my fitness journey how went from this to this from this to this all right every detail i'm going to share with you guys and then at the end i also asked you guys um i did like a ask me anything on my instagram and i'll also be answering some of your questions at the very end so stick around for that too and if you want to know about my fitness last transformation story then just keep on watching all right so we're going to start at the very bottom with my uh kind of sad childhood yeah um i was never athletic growing up i hated a gym class dreaded it every single day of school and i did not play sports the only thing i played in school was the violin okay at least i was kind of good at it i was first chair um but see that's how much i practiced and did not have friends that i was first chair okay i would literally um come home from school school practice for six hours and then eat and go to sleep um and i'm pretty sure i did my homework on the bus or at school so that i could come home and just practice practice practice but yeah and so yeah i had i had no friends i loved to read books and um i did really well in school um i was a super nerd and i was an orcher dork to my core and um but yeah just very nerdy little tiny asian girl and then once i hit fourth grade i got glasses so uh my parents really set me up to be bullied moral of the story anyway and so and i was always very skinny too i was just a tiny little asian girl i was your skinny friend and you could eat whatever she wanted but never gain weight and trust me i tried okay i try to gain weight i would before school for breakfast i would eat two otis spunkmeyer triple chocolate muffins okay those things were huge as big as my face but so delicious so good stuff for breakfast probably some pizza rolls on the side too because pizza rose and then i would go to school for lunch i along with my lunch i would eat two packs of those swiss rolls whole whole things in the chocolate with the white swirl inside love those things i still love those things come home eat some more ho ho's eat some more pizza rolls and any other junk food i could get my hands on i would okay my pim my parents uh my dad is a pastor and so my parents were always getting these sheet cakes like half sheet cakes from people at church who liked to make cake or bought them for them i don't know and but no one else like they were like sponge cakes and no one else and my family liked to eat them so guess who ate them i did because i love them okay i love them if it's cake i will eat it and so every week my parents would literally bring home at least one half sheet of cake and i would eat all of it okay no one else talks to everyone else hated the sponge cake but i love it and so i would eat at least one half sheet cake a week as well on top of everything else i was eating so trust me i was eating you know in my head i thought that eating junk food would help me to gain weight but i did not and i didn't hit 100 pounds until i was in high school yeah so just a very tiny person growing up i was always called skinny bones i always told i need to eat more to eat a burger to stop starving myself that i was anorexic all this stuff and none of it was true you know and i was eating as much as i possibly could you know and but just i just couldn't gain the weight yeah so fast forward changing i started dating and he loved going to the gym and um i did not okay i didn't see the purpose of going to the gym in my head going to the gym for girls was to lose weight for guys it was to build muscle and i had no intention or desire to lose weight because i was already skinny enough as it was you know if anything i wanted to gain weight and so i was not interested in going to the gym with him but then um eventually you know i was like okay you spend all your time and all of your money here let me see what this this is about and so he got me a membership and he paid for it he still pays for it that's how you know he's a keeper when he pays for your gym membership get you a man who pays for your gym membership anyway um and so i started going to the gym with him kind of he would do his own thing while i was walking on the treadmill the treadmill was the only piece of equipment i knew how to use in the whole entire gym and so because that's the only thing i knew then i refused to try anything else and step outside of my comfort zone and only go on the treadmill um but yeah and so but eventually you know of course i got bored of it and i was that gym membership gym member who would go 12 times a month to get your reimbursement and then you would never see me outside of those 12 times that was me okay when i look back at my old stuff it makes me want to cry a little bit anyway uh but eventually i started getting bored of the treadmill and i started following changing around with his workouts and he uh was into weightlifting and bodybuilding at the time and and so i would do his exact workouts you know set for set rep for rep i would do literally what he was doing i had no idea what i was doing and what muscles i was working but i figured it was better than being bored in the treadmill and so and so i kept following him around and then one day i realized holy crap i'm getting stronger and last week or last month i could only do this much weight but now i can do like a double that much and i realized i was getting stronger and then naturally being a competitive and aggressive person i was like let me try to beat that next week you know and let me try to do better i bet i could do better you know i bet i could do more and and so it became me challenging myself and i realized that my physical limits were set by my emotional and mental limits and so the more i could push myself mentally and emotionally the more i could push myself physically if i didn't think that i could do it then i wouldn't be able to do it even if technically i physically could do it you know but if i believe i could do it then i could do it um and so it just opened this whole new world of as cheesy as the sounds possibilities the challenge my initial with away my my initial mindset of going to the gym is just to lose weight for girls and i didn't know any girls who were bodybuilders no one that i knew none of my family um was into fitness you know all of us were nerds okay my parents just set us up to be bullied as children thanks mom and dad anyway but yeah so anyway then i when i realized that there was this new when i discovered the world of fitness or started stepping into it and when i started to fall in love with it and when i started to want to go for my own reasons not just to follow changing around and that's when i started to do my own research and i started to follow fitness accounts i you know started um looking workouts up on youtube you know and i was just so thirsty to learn and so i did all the research and learned all the information that i possibly could and i wanted the more that i learned the more that i grew the more i challenged myself and the more i really pushed my limits but yeah so and then after you know a while doing that then i got a better grasp of what i like to do and what i didn't like to do you know and so i started to structure my own workouts do my own workouts i had a good feel for what these should look like so i started doing my own stuff you know so i just started creating my own workouts doing my own thing and taking everything that chain chain taught me and making it my own you know and not just following him around the gym anymore but but yeah and so um so in a sense like changing was almost like a personal trainer because everything that i know now he has taught me uh almost the stuff and so but once i started to get my own goals and realize that there's more to the gym or when i started when i realized that girls and weight lifts too and i started following girls who were weightlifting then i started to um focus more on aesthetics and like building the booty and building uh building your lives and you know and getting delts as big as your head and stuff like that and so but for him he had different goals and so i took everything that he had taught me made it my own and apply it to my own goals and just kind of branched off from there but yeah so january of 26 2017 is when i like fully committed to going to the gym because before i just kind of went whenever i wanted and i wasn't serious about it but january 2017 that was my new year's resolution was to let me really actually commit to this and do this and and so i did and ever since then i've stuck to it you know been consistent with the gym but it consisted with my nutrition you know um and just um i'm really making it a lifestyle you know but yeah so it was it took it was a long process for me to fall in love with the general took me a good two years to understand to define what fitness meant to me and what going to the gym meant to me and to find my own flow with going to the gym you know but yeah so that's basically my fitness journey and ever since then i've still been learning every single day still been growing still been challenging myself in all aspects i've still been you know trying new things still experimenting learning new techniques refining my form it's like and that's what i love about fitness is that the growth never stops and for initially if you you would ask you know me when i first got my membership about it that would have been really intimidating because like you know like for me like it was just like there was always an end and you get a prize at the end like first place okay like i got first place in my second grade spelling bee and um but yeah so for me you know initially that was intimidating to know to know that there wasn't really an end and you know for fitness and um but as i learned about it more then the more i understood it and the more um exciting that was you know because there's not an end that means your potential is limitless you know and but yeah and so for me fitness was really like gaining confidence not because i look good but because i was trying new things because i was challenging myself in new ways and succeeding when i challenged and nothing and then learning to learn a lot of humility that even um when i failed it was like learning that failure was a good thing because every time i failed and i learned and when i learned then i grew and so gaining confidence in that aspect you know and getting gained a better grasp for what my strengths were what my weaknesses were and even though i had weaknesses what can i do to help strengthen those non weaknesses are not a bad thing failure is not a bad thing so my confidence rose because i started to believe in myself more started to try new things vendors are just positively affecting my life and all aspects you know and unconsciously i was taking what i was learning from the gym and then applying that to like to school to work i was you know um trying to do things you know outside of you know outside of the gym and stuff that i've never do before and for me i'm a person to have it i am i like schedules i like lists you know and i'm an introvert i don't like to try new things i don't like to talk to people i don't like to step outside my comfort zone but so for me the gym was my opportunity to learn how to do all those things and to challenge myself to be better than the person that i was um but but yeah i'm just gonna stop there because i feel like i'm just a ranting now and um i always have so much to say about it but i'll just stop there and then let's get into the q a the first question i have is did you or do you count macros and do you think they are a must to lose body fat slash muscle so initially when i first got my gym membership i did not count macros to attract calories at all but again i wasn't serious about it but once i decided to really commit to the gym and i had like a physical goal to read like a physical fitness goal like i wanted to build a booty and i wanted to gain muscle mass then i started counting my macros okay and i don't think that they're absolutely necessarily essential to building muscle or losing fat but i definitely 100 think that if you have a specific fitness goal in mind that you want to reach especially if it's within a certain amount of time then you should definitely cut macros and calories okay so no i don't think it's absolutely necessary to track calories and macros to reach any fitness goal but at 100 do you think that you if you have a specific fitness goal that you want to reach then you should track calories and macros just because i think it's efficient okay it tells you this is where you're at this is where you want to be this is how to get from point a to point b because a lot of times if you're just guesstimating especially if you've never counted the macros and calories before then you just kind of go like this and then you get to the end okay um so just to be efficient i would say yes all right so what resources did you use to create your workout routine so i um i learned from changing first um everything that i do now i learned i learned a lot from him and then like what i was saying earlier as i learned as my goals started to as i started to create my own goals for myself then i started to look stuff up online and just follow literally follow people's workouts online like the workouts that i have for you guys on my instagram and youtube and facebook i would follow once just like that um but yeah how long did it take to get to where you are now so i started january 2017 and january 2019 so about two years how did you educate yourself about the gym or with what machine techniques did you start with as i was saying earlier i feel like i'm just repeating myself a lot so i apologize if it feels like that but changing taught me a lot of what i know but i also taught myself a lot of stuff just by doing your research and using my resources okay you have so many so many free resources out there so many people who are willing to help you um and it's up to you though whether you use those resources or not okay the more you use the resources that are available to you the more you will learn okay people who want to learn won't wait for people to feed them okay they will go out buying food themselves okay so if you really want to learn go out and do the research okay don't just wait for people to tell you what you need to know go out there and find it yourself okay how long did it take for you to figure out which workouts work specifically for your body i would say um probably a good year it takes a lot of time because when you're just starting you're just very kind of clumsy with everything and nothing feels right i feel like it takes a good year or so to finally get it down to get a good grasp of going to the gym and using machines and stuff so i'd say a good year did you have problems with being intimidated by a very trained men and women in the gym i would say initially yes it was intimidating just to be at the gym in general um it was intimidating but i think once i realized that um fitness we all start as beginners we all started ground zero and the only way yeah and we all started at ground zero and no one starts no one comes out of the room knowing how to deadlift double their weight okay and so we all start at the very bottom and so i think for me coming to that realization and understanding that was very helpful for me to not be intimidated and then you know you just get the mindset of everything you know i'm just gonna do me at the gym so and i also have a video and seven tips to uh gaining confidence at the gym you should check that out so the question is how are you so motivated to go to the gym so much and so i know you've heard this before but it's not about how motivated you are it's about how disciplined you are okay um and i think a lot of times people just get caught up in their feelings like oh i don't want to go i don't feel like going to the gym i feel tired i feel this i feel bad i just feel like staying at home and all this stuff but it's just like if you want something you got to make a plan for success you have to sacrifice for what you want or what you want becomes a sacrifice you have to sacrifice time energy to go into the gym otherwise your fitness goal you're losing weight goal you're gaining weight goal you're gaining a booty goal is going to be what your sacrifice and if you don't take the time and the energy and the money to invest in your fitness goal then your fitness goal is what you sacrifice okay you can't you can't have everything okay something has always got to get okay and if you have to be willing to sacrifice something to gain something else you have to work hard for it and it's something that is earned you're not given and you just got to be willing to work hard for it you have to remember that every time you step foot into the gym every workout you do every workout you finish every rep you do that's taking you one step closer to your goal okay and it's just it's a long tedious process it can be but every time you get your butt into the gym and every time you do your workout you're one step closer to your goal so you're gonna sit at home and stay where you are and not take yourself one step closer to your goal or you're gonna get your butt into the gym and get yourself one step closer to your goal and that's up to you sacrifice to what you want or what you want becomes a sacrifice okay and every time you choose to stay at home because you're tired or read this or that that's you saying i'm not i choose my current situation over what i want long term i don't want what i want long term enough for me to sacrifice how i feel right now but if you're willing but if you really want your fitness goal you're gonna it's you're gonna say hey i'm tired af right now i just work 10 hours a day i just babysat my nieces and nephews or my kids or whoever's kids for six hours but i want my fitness goals so much that i will drive to the gym and get you know a good 45 60 minute workout in because i'm willing to do whatever it takes to get there how long did it take to started seeing a difference um for me i would say it took a good six months to see small changes but it wasn't until a good year that i saw like significant changes and i think it's that's generally true for most people but don't compare yourself to other people don't compare yourself to me or to anything you see on social media okay your journey is your very own some people will see results right away i was not a person who did i took me a long time and i feel like with gaining muscle especially if you're starting at like a very small with like a very you're not starting with much like i didn't start with much um like i was just a very tiny person i had to build muscle i feel like when you're building muscle it is often a longer process than losing weight but yes how did you get your booty to grow asian genetics are totally killing me all right i'm sorry but i just gotta say this question kills me okay whenever people say this like oh i have an asian booty i have bad jeans i have a pancake but because of my genetics i will never have a butt girl let me tell let me tell you okay if you're willing to work hard for it nothing not even your genetics can stop you okay if you're saying your genetics are stopping you from getting to where you want to be i don't know about you but to me that sounds like an excuse so if you're willing to put in the work you can do anything you want you can achieve any goal that you have okay but how do you grow booty i have many posts on this on my instagram um but girl go to the gym do your leg days two or three leg days a week eat your protein don't be scared to eat food do that consistently and don't forget your progressive overload so continue to lift heavier do that for at least a good year and you will find yourself with the booty okay no giving up after six months of not seeing results you're gonna have to go longer than that okay and be consistent if you're not consistent it's you're not gonna get there okay you gotta be consistent gotta be dedicated gotta get your butt to the gym two three days a week and every single week for a good year okay as well as eating enough food okay because your muscles cannot grow without enough nutrients if you're not giving your body enough nutrients your muscles will not grow okay there are no magical foods that will go straight to your booty okay all right and if you're willing to work hard for anything you want you can achieve any goal that you have there is no such thing as your genetics making it impossible for you to achieve your goals okay no no you can do it you can achieve whatever you can get a kim k booty even if you're starting with a pancake butt or an asian book okay no whoever told you about this this genetics thing and how you can't have a nice butt because you have asian dynamics lie to you okay no you can do it okay you can do it so who's inspired you most of all on your fitness journey and why so i would say the people who inspired me the most would be lynn lowes who is from sweden and like chrissy saylor or i don't know how to serenade her last name um and i think she's from the uk somewhere someone correct me so i would say those are probably my two um biggest influencers when it came to fitness especially when i started like i i still adore them but like i really like you know like wanted to buy all their clothes that they were wearing and buy their shoes and you know and stuff like that every single workout they do i would save and bookmark and so i love those two girls um and and they're also two women who i feel like are very they run their own businesses they do their own thing and they don't care what anyone says they live life on their own terms and i love all that about them i love that they're they're female bosses you know and everything about them i feel like it's just that they're very raw authentic and um i love all that about them you know but yes do you find it difficult to stay consistent here's what i'm going to say about that the less consistent you are the more you're going to find yourself starting over if you stay consistent right now you will never have to make that same goal again if you stick it to your if you stay consistent with your going to the gym and working out and eating right you and if your goal this year was to lose 10 pounds and you lose the 10 pounds because you were consistent guess what you're never gonna have to make that new year's resolution again but guess what if you don't if you're not consistent with it guess what next year you're making the same resolution do you really want to stay in the same place the same spot that you've been at that you hate being at for the last 10 years are you gonna put yourself in that same position again next year if your answer is no then it should not be hard for you to stay consistent okay how did you get interested in fitness and what were some of your struggles in the beginning i think i've already kind of been over how i got interested in fitness some of my struggles were definitely just being scared to be at the gym the whole idea and the whole whole place of the gym was very scary and intimidating to me um and for me i it's just um like i said earlier i just i'm just a person initially before i started doing fitness i was just really scared to step outside my comfort zone i was just a person of habit and i was just very comfortable where i was at and so for me that was something that was hard for me to do was step outside of my comfort zone and to make mistakes because i just um i was a person who excelled and had and succeeded in a lot of things that i did and so i wasn't familiar with failure and so familiar was a foreign concept to me and it was a concept that i didn't want to become familiar with um and so so getting rid of that mindset was also hard for me to do at the beginning like what start at ground zero no what no no thanks you know like i don't want to look stupid i don't want to you know like make mistakes and stuff like that and so for me that was something that i showed a little bit at the beginning as well so were there times where school got so stressful that you couldn't work out for me school is definitely my one of my biggest priorities just finishing school because once i finish school i will never have to do it again like how you if you achieve your fitness goal you will never have to make the same goal again you won't ever have to go through the whole process again okay but yeah and so definitely if there were times if there are times when i have like a deadline or if i know that if i go to the gym then i won't be able to get an assignment done then i'm gonna get the assignment done okay um yes fitness is a lifestyle yes fitness is a priority but i'm also not trying to fail school either you know and so but i think you'll definitely set yourself up for success by making for me that for me i make a lot of uh i hang out every single day i know exactly what assignments i'm doing every single day i know when all my deadlines are um and you know and i know what i'm doing on the weekends but my schedule looks like on the weekends and you know just planning ahead and creating a plan for success so that i know that i have time for everything that's coming ahead you know i'm not just winging it every single day and be like i hope i have enough time today to do this no i know that i'm going to have time to do something because i'm going to make time for it okay but if yes there are ever times when um even when i was taking 20 credits last semester and doing um even when i was taking 20 credits last semester it was still yes i was short i always felt like i was short on time and i was just flying by the seat of my pants but i always made sure that okay this is homework time and i'm going to carve out these two hours to go to the gym because that's also important to me you know and if i'm going to fit into my schedule because if i don't then well not is not an option okay i'm going to find a way to fit into my schedule okay and and i'll go to the gym and if i have to move other things around then i'll do that so i can go to the gym so i can hit my goal so i can stay consistent you know but if ever like i said before if there are times when i know that going to the gym is truly going to jeopardize like my grades and my assignments and yes i'm going to stay home and do my do my assignments but that doesn't mean every day oh i didn't plan ahead so i didn't get all my homework done homework done or i slept in today or i took too long of a lounge or i spent too much time watching netflix no there's none of that every single hour of the day is well planned out so that i am being efficient with my time okay because time you don't ever get that back um but yeah all right so how did you know that you're gaining muscle and not bad at weight when starting and then i also got the question do you ever did you ever get discouraged when you started getting muscle or becoming thick and what helped you through it no i never got discouraged that i was becoming thick or building muscle because that was always my goal okay um you know you can't say that you want something and then complain about getting it you know i so my goal has always been to gain body mass in general and to build muscle and so gaining weight has never concerned me or really scared me i think there was definitely a time when it was uncomfortable for me because i was just so used to like used to being small that when i started to gain weight then i was like wait my clothes don't fit me anymore and i can't just go to the store and grab the smallest size anymore you know or i can't button my button anymore of my pants and so there was a time when it was like a little bit uncomfortable but hey that's what i asked for if you're wanting to build muscle and build body mass you're going to outgrow your clothes okay you're not going to just magically become curvaceous with an hourglass shape and not get any fat or not go up in size okay especially if you're making significant changes okay you're going to you're just like if you're going to lose if you wanted to lose weight your clothes will get smaller well if you want to gain weight your clothes are going to get bigger okay and how did you know when you're you're getting muscle not bad away um you know because you can actually you can literally see like your muscles getting bigger like with progress pictures and stuff like that and literally physically getting stronger like lifting heavier weights that you couldn't lift before but yeah and um but i think you know going back to what i was saying earlier i think there is misconception that when you gain muscle when you build a booty you're magically going to get a huge kim k booty and you're still going to wear a size extra small size zero like no i went from a size zero double zero to like a size four now okay that's a pretty big jump and but you know it's just um people are people they want the big booty but they don't want to go up in dress sizes but you have to you can't you you have to have they come as a package deal if you're going to build a booty you know if you're going to build muscle mass your pant size also going to go up okay but that's the goal right to build a bigger booty so your booty can fit into bigger jeans right not so you can fit the ones your brain right now so if you're gonna ask for something don't complain about it when you get there okay so how do you manage to eat healthy and how do you say no to foods that aren't considered healthy so if you been following me for a while you know that i'm pretty lenient with my food okay if i want to eat something i'll just eat it and i won't feel bad about it and i believe that's crucial to build a positive relationship with food and so sometimes it's not always good to say this is bad food you should eat it this is good food you should eat more of this you know definitely there are foods that have more nutrients and are more nutrient dense than other foods that are more just empty calories okay it's up to you how much of the nutrient dense or every calories you want to eat you know and everyone has their own balance that they decide you know that this is how much unhealthy food or unhealthy food i'm gonna eat and for me if i want to eat something i'm just gonna eat it i'm not gonna feel bad about it and that's the kind of person i am um but it's up to you to decide you know if you want to be more strict with it or more lenient you know if you literally just want to work out because you like to work out but still but you don't care about looking good or you don't care about having a certain physique and you just want to work out because you want to work out and then you go eat mcdonald's for four meals a day then go for it you know as long as you know that as long as you know what you're getting your stuff into as long as you know the consequences of your decisions okay and so yeah so whatever you choose to do do it and you know and do it because it's going to make you happy but also know that with every decision you make there are going to be consequences good or bad little big ones are small ones okay and so whatever you decide to do be ready to face the consequences everyone has their own balance with food i know people who are fitness who look great and they still go party get lit every single weekend you know there's people who will have been tracking their macros for like 10 years straight and you know refuse to not track their macros and they you know meal prep every single week and you know i've never missed a meal prep in the last five years and so it's up to you how strict or how lenient you want to be and whatever you decide to do that's totally on you there's no right or wrong way the only wrong way to do it is to do it in a way that makes you unhappy okay and the more the final find a balance that's going to make you happy because if it makes you happy guess what you're going to keep doing it that means it's going to be sustainable that also means it's going to be maintainable that also means you're going to be consistent that also means you're going to reach your goals okay but if you stick with the diet that you hate that makes you unhappy guess what you're not going to stick to it that means it's not going to be sustainable because you're not going to stick to it that means you're also not going to be consistent and if you're not consistent with your diet and your goals what's going to happen you're not going to achieve whatever goals that you have okay so there are different kinds of balances no right or wrong the right one is the one that makes you happy the wrong one is someone that you do because you think you need to do but you don't actually need to do and the one that makes you unhappy okay so i struggle with really awful periods any tips for working out on your period [Music] so when it comes to your period i will just say who controls your life you or your period are you really going to let your period influence your decisions are you really going to allow it to uh not take one step closer to your goal are you really going to allow it to to make you stay in the same place instead of being at the gym and working out you're just laying on the bed drowning yourself in self-pity okay your period is a week in your life every single month or so so um don't let your period on your life okay you are better than that you're stronger than that okay so when you period comes and if you get cramps i know how it is because i get them too if it's really bad then um take an ibuprofen a college day go to the gym and then you live to work out another day all right you do not you own your life your period does not okay don't let your period get in the way of your goals okay you are better than that or you can also just switch your rest days too so if you're having like a bad period day you know major cramps etc instead of going to the gym call that your rest day and then when your usual rest day comes go to the gym okay or just skip that day and then don't even worry about it all right but don't let your period control your life okay it does not control your life so this is all for today's fitness journey slash q a i hope that i was able to answer most of your questions as always if you have any other questions for me you're more than welcome to drop them down below in the comment section or dm me on instagram i look forward to slaying our fitness goals this year and getting ourselves one step closer to where we want to be and if you got this far i know this was an incredibly long video but if you got this far thank you so much for taking the time to watch this video i really appreciate it and i hope you all have a wonderful rest your day i will see you all again next week