In My Fitness Journey

5’5, 35 year old woman Highest weight: 305 Current weight: 251 First goal weight: 199 Ultimate goal weight: TBD

[froglifter]

I wanted to keep track of all my non scale goals in one place, so here they are. The idea is that hopefully once I accomplish them, I can cross them off here too:

Be able to run a mile I ran my first mile on 6/18/2026

Run a sub-12 minute mile

Walk into any shop and be able to buy clothes

Never have to ask for a seatbelt extender on a plane I’ve been on 6 flights in the past two months and I haven’t needed a seatbelt extender on any of them, so I think I can cross this off now 7/6/2026

Be able to fit into my husband’s clothes (shirts, boxers, whatever)

Do 12 push ups

Do a 90 second plank

Do 5 pull ups

Leg press 550

Hike Cave Hill without stopping

Run a 5k

Wear a cute (not just functional) outfit to a concert

Be a single digit pant/dress size

200 lb leg extension

Squat 300 lbs

Being able to comfortably cross my legs and sit like that for a while

Having a normal towel fully cover me (instead of an xl towel)

Being able to take a bath in a normal sized tub

I’ll add more as I think of them. Some of these I’m already close to, so that makes me very hopeful.

[froglifter]

I’ve stalled out a bit on weight loss. I lost 7 pounds of fat in two weeks, then I only lost 1.3 pounds of fat in three weeks right after that. So I’m back up to eating close to maintenance (2100) for the next two weeks then dropping back down to 1850 see if that jumpstarts my metabolism.

I’m super excited to be eating at maintenance again. I’ve been in a cut since the end of March. But now I’m hoping to pack on some more muscle since I’ll be eating more.

Muscle growth has been very slow since I’ve been cutting. I’m improving on how much I can lift but my actual muscle mass is only increasing in small fractions (or not at all sometimes). I’ve mostly been fighting to just keep my muscle mass as I cut. But now I’m hoping to really pack it on these next couple weeks.

[froglifter]

God I looooove the post-leg day quad pump that I get. Just walking around the house in shorts with tremendous quads 😍

[eymurn]

going on a walk will save you again and again and again and again and

[livinglowercarb]

[froglifter]

Mondays are the woooooorst at the gym. They’re always so much busier than other days. Today was decent for back and so-so for bi. I’m holding steady at my 120 for 8 reps on lat pull downs but those last couple reps are definitely challenging. Failed at 20 pounds after 4 reps on incline biceps curls. But I did hit 70 for 8 reps on my preacher curl. I did my incline curls very last so I’m guessing that’s why I was fatigued. Win some, lose some.

[froglifter]

Full body workout today. I’ve upgraded to 50/55/60 pound dumbbells on my goblet squats because I was hitting like 15 reps each at 35/40/45. But 60 pound dumbbells are getting close to the ceiling on what I can reasonably pick up and hold at chest level. As a static hold I could probably hold a lot more. But getting it up to chest level is getting hard. Just gotta get stronger on back and bi I guess!

[froglifter]

I was able to focus on just glutes and hamstrings today instead of squeezing them in on my full body day. No PRs today, but this still felt like a decent workout. I was fighting for my life on those seated leg curls. Cable glute kickbacks continue to be challenging on 32.5 pounds so I’m going to stay there for a while.

[tonysaintborgi]

my mutuals are doing this to me

[froglifter]

Ran another mile today! I’m proud of myself because I really didn’t want to this morning. My deal with myself is I only need to run on days that I don’t go to the gym (like once or twice a week). But my quads are still really sore from legs on Wednesday and I slept poorly, so I wasn’t feeling today. But I still got it done and it’s my fastest mile so far.

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[froglifter]

One and a half reps are torture!!!! I’m slowly increasing weight on all my lifts, but since I’m in a deficit my trainer also has me focusing on endurance too, so we hit a lot of one and half reps. Especially for legs. It’s crazy how I can leg press 500 pounds for 8-10 reps, but 10 reps of one and a half’s at like 200 pounds is BRUTAL.

[froglifter]

I’m only hitting like one PR a week, and I’m fighting against getting discouraged. I’m trying to remember that I’ve been in a deficit since March 30, and I can’t pack on muscle the way I could if I wasn’t in a deficit. But still. I want the numbers to go up more quickly!!

[froglifter]

Ran another mile! I was worried that maybe I just had a weirdly good day and I couldn’t do it again. But I can! And I shaved like 20 seconds off my time.

[froglifter]

Solo back and biceps today. It’s crazy how much more difficult incline biceps curls are than regular curls 😭 but I’m back to hitting 8 reps of 120 on lat pulldowns, which is good because I stalled out at 6 reps for a couple weeks there.

[life-spire]

[froglifter]

Tell me why I’m just now learning that the whey in protein shakes can cause breakouts??? That certainly explains a lot of the fucked up skin issues I’ve been having the past 6 months in particular.