“I sometimes felt discouraged, especially when what was staring back at me in the mirror didn’t align with the image I had of myself in my head.” Tuft, now a fitness and nutrition coach, has more than 152,000 followers on Instagram, and shares her journey as well as diet and lifestyle tips. “It’s an evolutionary process, one that is not only physical and nutritional but also mental and emotional,” she wrote in Insider. “I specialize in helping women break free of cyclical behaviours, and it’s exactly what I needed to do when seeking to shed the muscle that defined my pretransition life.”
