![]() ![]() ![]() “When I first started, we heard a lot of things like, ‘Why are you wanting to lift? Like, ‘You’re not gonna lose weight lifting.’ But I did. After working with her coach, Daniel Fox, for less than a year, she went to her first powerlifting competition at the end of 2018. But if they could truly tap into my mental in the way that I think now, that I look at my body – like your body is your vessel, take care of your body, it’s only one you got – it’s like a change from how I used to think.” So people see this exterior change and think it’s great. And I felt like everything else in my life started to have order. I’m like, what is going on? Why are these people screaming?” she says, laughing. “I saw all these people are lifting, there’s chalk everywhere. Walcott had taken dumbbell classes before, but it wasn’t until she entered a new gym in 2018 that she was introduced to powerlifting. “I’m still a food addict, but I don’t indulge in those things anymore.” I’m like, ‘Girl, sit your butt down, you ain’t hungry. When she craved food after a meal, “the new Tamara would get on the floor and do push-ups, sit-ups, jumping jacks. She tackled her food addiction with a new one: exercise. On nights she trained, Walcott would leave her 9-to-5 job as a residential property manager, make sure her kids were settled in for bed, and head to the gym, leaving her kids in the care of her mother. “And she literally would drive 45 minutes, three days a week after work to come with me to start training when I was at my heaviest weight,” Walcott says. ![]()
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