Candice Lewis-Carter discovered two big things in life by accident. The first was Figure competition. “We were out celebrating a friend’s first competition and I was intrigued by the process,” she says. “I decided to do a show on a whim six weeks later, and even though I ate Chinese food the night before, I actually ended up taking first place and winning overall!”
Her second discovery wasn’t as opportune: Lewis-Carter went in for a routine physical and came out with a lifechanging diagnosis — polycystic ovary syndrome. “I had been struggling to lose weight even though I was eating super clean, resistance training, and doubling up on cardio,” she says. “I thought I was [having trouble] just because I was getting older, and even though irregular periods are a symptom of PCOS, I had always been irregular because of athletics — I never realized there was a problem with my hormones.”
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