About

Hi, I’m Olena.

On this blog, I write about the journey of bodybuilding, chronic bloating, and food choices.

I have been active and strong most of my life, but my stomach was always bloated. I just didn’t think much about it. Life was busy, and I assumed that’s just how my body was.

Everything changed when I started preparing for my first bodybuilding competition. I started training abs every day, but my stomach still looked swollen. That’s when I realized — it wasn’t a training problem. It was a food, posture, breathing, and lifting approach problem. So I changed my training and started treating food like an experiment.

On this blog, I write about:

Chronic bloating and how I manage it
Re-learning how I stand, sit, lift, and breathe
Recipes made from foods that don’t cause bloating (for me)
Simple routines, discipline, and systems

I am not a doctor or a nutritionist. I am just a person who pays attention, tests things, and writes down what works.

This blog is a collection of those notes.