I shared our strategies for getting me from 29.1% body fat post-baby to 12% body fat for our recent bodybuilding competition at the website of our sponsor, Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness! Here’s an excerpt:

With 8 months left to prepare for the show, I was at 29% body fat and 125 pounds and, given my previous experience with being stuck in a fat loss rut, I had my doubts that I could ever reach the goal of 12% body fat and 110 pounds that Derek (my husband and personal trainer/champion vegan bodybuilder) set me for me! But with one week left before the show, I checked in at exactly 12.006% body fat and 110 pounds.

So how did we do it? Why is it that I’d been on a whole foods plant-based diet for years already, which got me in excellent pre-pregnancy shape, but I hadn’t gotten that coveted “ripped” physique in spite of all the good nutrition and frequent workouts?

Read on to find out what we did!

In other news, we’re now fortunate to be able to share cooking demonstrations from former Food Network donut champion turned vegan bodybuilding champion Sara Russert of vegansarabeth.com! She’s contributing videos to our online training portal that provide an answer to the eternal question: how do you take the simple, wholesome components of the bodybuilding diet and make them taste good? This woman can make a waffle out of anything, and in fact her first video is “Banana Oat Protein Waffles”!

Watch the preview here! Take a look around and, if you want to join up, click on the big old SUBSCRIBE button!