Sohee Carpenter

I didn't start, I didn't have an online, any presence until late 2011 is when I started my first free WordPress blog.

I was a senior in college and

And I basically had gone through my four years of college trying to be a clean eater and sticking to rigid meal plans that my online coaches had provided for me, but struggling to adhere over and over, working out really hard,

foregoing my entire social life isolating myself which i think a lot of people can relate to but not understanding why why am i trying so hard why am i putting in so much effort when i i'm high achieving and basically every other area of my life you know i graduated top of my class in high school i went to a prestigious university i'm doing well in that regard but why is it my diet that i am continually struggling with so by the time i got to my senior year i was like

There has to be something I'm not understanding because I was seeing all this messaging about, you know, fitness is about hard work and sacrifice and discipline.

And I'm like, but I am, I am hardworking.

I am disciplined.

I know these things.

Like I wake up at 5.30 a.m.

to the gym before class.

It's like, I'm disciplined.

So what am I missing?

And finally, I was like, maybe it's like, maybe let me look into some psychology, right?

So that's when I started.

This was when I was 21.

I started my first introduction into learning more about,

okay i want to understand what it is about psychology i'm not understanding and help bridge the gap between the the behavior and application that i'm obviously not getting right uh so that's kind of where my interest in psychology started from and then of course throughout my college years and i don't know if you remember back in the like late 2000s early

2010s era fitness blogging was very big back then before Instagram took off yeah and there were the there were like the online communities the threads yes there were fitness forums that's what it was I was a master lurker in multiple different fitness I would never comment I was like I would obsessively read everything I loved it and at this point I had actually quit the pre-med path I was pre-med I was on the sports medicine track because I was like I'm going to be an orthopedic surgeon turns out

I didn't like it very much.

And then I kept coming back to fitness as a hobby.