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freshman cheme student in dire need of unchudification | archive of my workouts <3 | he/him

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haiii world

here is the basis of this tumblr, since everything will prob orbit back to this in some way

who am i

currently, i am a freshman cheme student, he/him pronouns, in dire need of unchudifying myself. since uni has forcefully charged me for gym membership as a required fee, i might as well take it as an opportunity to unchudify myself <3

methodology

cardio, cuz i'm too scared to do free weights or any machine at my current figure. right now, my main medium is incline treadmill. in terms of diet, i highkey vacillate between horrible eating habits and like normal eating habits. right now, i'm TRYIING to omad, but its honestly really hard to omad the amount of food i need to like legitimately survive, although--generally--i will twomad at most cuz i'm too busy to do threemad <3

in terms of schedule, i've been sticking to every-other-day, but recently i've been going more often

goals

lose like 60 pounds cuz it would be sooo cool to be a normal weight since the last time my bmi was normal was like in childhood. I'm not really sure about timeline? i think, ideally, i would do it in the span of a year, but i might try to cut it down cuz omgggg i want to unchudify expeditiously.

oh an cardiovascular health omg i love being able to walk and not be like out of breath 24/7

also, i'm currently trying to work up to 12-3-30 for my treadmill since everyone loves it apparently...

edit 2/23/2026: i mentioned my weight in a previous post, so i might as well mention my weightloss goals here as well <3

height: 6'3"

starting weight: 260lb

current weight: 237lb (as of 4/26/2026)

goalssss

goal weight 1: 239lb [🔓]

goal weight 2: 199lb [🔐]

goal weight 3 (final): prob around 190lb or 180lb [🔐]

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4/21/2026 + weight update todayyy: unchudification continues

ok so yesterday i once again did treadmill, outlined below:

3-3-5, warmup

12-3-30

3-3 to 2.2-5, cooldown

it was hard, and me being on zoloft left me literally DRENCHED after it which isn't particularly ego boosing but it is what it is. I was able to get through like 80% of the 12-3-30 without touching the handles of the treadmill which was pretty nice. when i first did it on 4/20 i was like holding the handles (but like just resting my arms if that makes sense?) so i don't think it was "cheating" but it did feel easier so i'm gonna try to not do that.

for today (4/22), i did a weigh in after waking up fully expecting like 145lb, but i ended up getting to 137.3, which was really surprising and fun to see. it looks like, at least while i'm on campus, i seem to be having sufficient eating habits which is fun. i'm like probably for sure/on the cusp of being formally overweight and not just obese which is gorgeous (i.e., i still weigh above 139 at times, but i'm like transitioning into <139 weights now).

i think i'm gonna go to gym again today and i'm sooo excited i forgot how fun it was to reach these goals and also to get through the challenge of walking 12-3-30 for like the full 30 mins omg.

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4/20/2026, and some time in march: ms. body tea is on her way

short update

so i accidentally (?) went a month w/o gym, but i DIDDD manage to maintain my weight for the most part which was kinda cool and unexpected. ramadan has ended (since like a month ago lol), so i'm eating more now mashallah

anyways, i had spring break (so between 3/10 and like 3/20 i wasn't able to go to gym </3), and then after spring break i went to the gym and forgot to post abt it (maybe it was march 23?). anyways, on that day, i was able to do up to to maybeeee 12-3-25, maybe 12-3-27.5 but idk, all i know is that i got super close to getting to 12-3-30

so, yesterday, after going through a week of hell with my classes (literally everything was happening the same week i would have rather been stuffed into an iron maiden and burned alive inside of it), i went yesterday, here is what happened:

3-3-5, warmup

12-3-30

3-3 to 2.2-5, cooldown

as we can see, i reached 12-3-30, yayyy!!!!

ok thats all i need to learn about magnetism now for my physics class </3

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3/10/2026: 5 incline has died, happiness continues

i fear these posts r going to start getting duller because idk what to write. here is the overview for today:

3-3-5, warmup

8-3-10

12-3-20

3-3 to 2.2-5, cooldown

ok, today was honestly really really hard. the machine that i usually go on was available, so i went on that and did my usual routine of decreasing my 5 incline sets and alloting that time to the 12 incline set. today was the day that the remaining 5 incline would get absorbed into the 12 incline, so she has died. now, all i have is the 8 incline that needs to gradually get absorbed into ms 12.

ok, i got off topic. so 8 wasn't too hard. it was my first time immediately going from 3 to 8, but since i've already been doing 8 incline for so long, it was fairly easy. the 12 incline set was a doozy. because it was 20 minutes, it was really hard to feel motivated to complete it just cuz it was SO LONG. like, it was 10 minutes of 12, and then another 10 minutes of 12. alongside that, it was also just really hard </3 like, stamina-wise, my legs were exhausted trying to finish it, but i did.

tomorrow, i'm not sure if i'm going to go to the gym since i have an exam thursday that i like kinda need to lock in for, but thursday night i might go.

okk baiii see u soon

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3/9/2026: a neverending midnight sunnnnnn <3333

i wasn't really expecting to go to the gym today, but it was like 9:00PM, i finished most of my assignments (i have an exam to study for since prof assigned it RIGHT before break, so i wanted to get everything done for my classes before break so that i could just get over it and devote all of my studying for that exam). also, i ate like sooo much for iftar, so it only felt right to do a workout.

anyways, only had part of one hw assignment left, so i just decided to go to the gym. I chugged a bottle of water (ramadan has me sooo dehydrated--hyperbole), and went to the gym. I ended up having to go on this other treadmill type that i've never been on, but it was honestly kinda boujee (although, i'm not sure if there are differences in incline/speed settings, so it might've been easier than i'm used to?). anywayssss, enough of my rambling, here is my routine i did today:

3-3-5, warmup

5-3-2.5

8-3-10

12-3-17.5

3-3 to 2.2-5, cooldown

today was honestly surprisingly light? i didn't really feel exhausted until the latter half of my 12 incline set, but even then it wasn't tooooooo hard to just push through and get it done. i'm not really sure if it was the machine difference that caused it, but a win is a win--i got to 12 incline for 17.5 mins!!!! i'm a little nervy cuz break starts this week, which means that i might have to halt my treadmill stuff until after break, and i don't wanna pay for a planet fitness membership just to use it for a week </3. i'll have to look into it, cuz i really love just going to the gym.

ok, resuming my rambling, this semester has been so lovely. last semester, i was taking calc II and phys I (along other classes), and it was so dreadful cuz i had already taken them (phys I was just boring, and i'm p sure i had to retake cuz i took alg-based during my senior year, calc II i retook because i thought i hadn't really learned a lot online--i was wrong, and i passed with an A+). i.e., so much apathy last semester. this semester, everything is so new and i'm obsessed and i could explode with my love for everythingn i'm learning. we're starting to cover e&m in physics, and its like such a lovely puzzle in the best way possible and its also just so cool???? like yes let me derive that electric field by using a gaussian surface that matches the symmetry of that charge distribution, of course <3. in diff. eq, its just so many cool topics and reminds me so much of the joy i felt in pre-calc; i think the love i feel for it is akin to the love i felt for trig identities. overall, i'm so so so excited for this semester and the next (i take fluids next semester for my degree, and also p-chem, liek AHHFAHEOJFHAO i'm too excited i love learning)

also, to refer to the title of todays post, it was like 60degF today and sunset was at like 7, like WTFFF thats so amazing i'm so happy i love life.

okkk that it i'll let y'all know if i go to the gym tmrw <333

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3/8/2026: small updatteeee

so last post i mentioned that i would instead shave off time from my 5 incline sets, which is what i did today, and it was legitimately the hardest workout sesh i think i've had since i started. i almost though i would stop midway through the 12 incline part, but i ended up distracting myself for most of it and got through it!! here is the treadmill routine i did today:

3-3-5, warmup

5-3-5

8-3-10

12-3-15

3-3 to 2.2-5, cooldown

today was daylight savings, too, which was really exciting cuz now the sun will set earlier. however, it also means that iftar will be later which actually is the worst thing ever but oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ok i tired and want to sleep byeeee maybe i will do a workout on the 9th but idk yet i will post if i do

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3/5/2026: more more more još još još progress

ok, in a way i'm back at square one. now that i've reached 12 incline, i now have to work my way up from 10 mins to 30 mins. i wasn't really expecting to go to the gym today, but i ended up getting a lot of work done early that was due today so i thought that I might as well. here is the overview of today's routine/progress:

3-3-5, warmup

5-3-10

8-3-7.5

12-3-12.5

3-3 to 2.2-5, cooldown

today was a reminder of how much zoloft makes me sweat. the moment i went from 8 incline to 12, sweat was, in essence, dripping off of me. it was actually so surreal cuz i haven't sweat that much since maybe the summer (but not even). at the same time, it was also a little grounding, since it reminded me of spring and the fact that is approaching (its supposed to be like 60F next week i'm so excited i could vomit).

recalling last post, i've decided to increase the 12 incline times while encroaching on the 5 and 8 incline times as i increase. I think i've decided on intervals of 2.5 minutes, but today was honestly really exhausting so i will have to mull over that a bit more. reflecting on this routine, however, my incline times are ranked as following (high to low):

12 incline, for 12.5 mins

5 incline, for 10 mins

8 incline, for 7.5 mins

something about this doesn't seem right. why am i spending more time at 5 incline than 8 incline? this question is inspiring me to start self studying kinesiology, because i want to be able to learn more about how to best alter these routines for my goals (and maybe nutrition, i just want to know everything 😭--maybe i can make flashcards and study them while i do my routines... hmmm thats like hitting two birds with one stone iykyk).

ok, ending off, in my naivety about how working out actually works, i think i will instead shave time off the lowest incline of 5, and delegate the shaved time to my 12 incline instead.

okkk byeeee!! tomorrow we have a delay so i will sleep in <333

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3/4/2026: gorgeous gorgeous day

ok. today started off rough when I walked into a thesis defense that I wasn't supposed to be in, and the PI of the lab that I've been going to the lab meetings for had to like stop talking to tell me that this was a thesis defense 😭. that, or it was a practice. luckily, it was the start of the lab meeting (like maybe 2-3 mins after it started since i have a class right before it), so i hopefully didn't intrude too much, but it was very awkward.

on the bright side, though, it meant that i had more time to do my hw, so i got started with one of my assignments, and then i eventually went to the gym, which is what this post is about! here is the overview of my treadmill routine for today <3

3-3-5, warmup

5-3-10

8-3-10

12-3-10

3-3 to 2.2-5, cooldown

as we can see, i made it to 12 incline!!!! after reaching 11.5 for five mins last time, i was curious to see if i could finally reach 12 for the full 10 mins, which i was! this is my first treadmill goal i've reached, since i initially started going to the gym w/ the goal of being able to do this routine (going from 5, to 8, to 12 in 10 minute intervals/sets, which was posted by @cheynamclaren on tiktok). this was truly such a fun goal to reach, cuz i remember approx. 2 or 3 weeks ago when i first tried to do 12 incline for 10 mins, i could only go for about 2.5 mins before getting dizzy from exhaustion.

i'm not sure how to proceed from here. my end goal is to eventually reach 12 incline for 30 mins. in reaching today's goal, i found it evident that staying at 5 and 8 incline for the first two sets made it a lot easier to reach 12, since my body has been able to adapt to the 5 and 8 incline (evident by the heartrate trending fairly low for those sets over the past few weeks). with this, i'm debating whether i should either (1) increase the difficulty of my 5 and 8 incline sets (e.g., starting with 7 incline instead of 5), or if I should increase the time spent on the 12 incline. i will prob decide this before next gym day, but i'm leaning towards increasing the time spent on 12 incline (maybe by 2.5 mins).

okkk byyeeee need to do hwww

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3/1/2026 + 3/2/2026: wl goal update and workout

3/1/2026, reflection

ok so i went home this weekend which meant that I could weigh myself, and I ended up getting down to 240 which was lit af. on the flip side, ramadan fasting + soo much food readily available for iftar meant that i ate SOOO much when i was home. i don't think i ate anything too significant, though (in terms of calories), so I'm just going to look past it since i think, by the end of this week, I should be able to "balance" out the calories I eat.

in retrospect, i think i need to get better at having good eating habits, cuz the unrestricted ability to eat this weekend was so eye opening. regardless, 240 is soo tea and i'm about to reach my first goal yay. I think by the start of spring break (approx. 2 weeks), I should defo be at that goal <3

3/2/2026, workout

ok so i went to the gym today since the weekend left me feeling like the biggest chud in existence. here is my workout for the day:

3-3-5, warmup

5-3-10

8-3-10

11-3-5

11.5-3-5

3-3 to 2.2-5, cooldown

today was really interesting because i think me eating so much over the weekend was really good at giving me the energy needed to go up to 11.5. like, i wasn't really thinking i'd be able to get back up to 11.5 today, but it was surprisingly both easy and light. like, my heartrate wasn't even that high despite me never having gone up to 11.5 before. idk if this is a sign that i should do carb-loading or whatever ppl do for things like cardio, or if the cardio is actually working and my heart is starting to lock innnn. regardless, i'm so close to reaching 12 incline like omg i remember when i was just starting out and could barely do like 7 incline this is so fun.

also, today i also did flashcards while on the treadmill and it was honestly such a good distractor from the time i spent on each set. rn in diffeq we're covering laplace transforms, so i think ima make some flashcards for diffeq on the laplace transforms and their inverses to do while on the treadmill. alongside this, i think ima get back into language learning (which i haven't done since i had that cold/flu), and make a bunch of flashcards to do while on the treadmill so that i can also occupy myself that way too.

that is the update byeeeee.

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2/25/2026: tired but worth it

ok here's the overview for today's workout

3-3-5, warmup

5-3-10

8-3-10

11-3-10

3-3 to 2.1-5, cooldown

i was able to somehow make it to 11 incline today for 10 mins; i've never felt so exhausted 😭 my legs kinda hurt, so ima just nap and wake up early to do phys hw, this is all byeeee

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2/23/2026: okkk progress

so i went to the gym around 9:00PM today, and it went pretty well, here is the overview:

3-3-5, warmup

5-3-10

8-3-10

10.5-3-10

3-3 to 2.1-5, cooldown

this time, i was able to make it to 10.5 incline, which was nice, although it was SOOO hard in the moment and i almost went down to 10 again. what's nice, though, is that this means that i'm closer to reaching 12 incline which is really exciting!!!! in terms of difficulty, my apple watch ranked it a moderate, which felt accurate but a little disappointing at the same time 😭😭😭. cardio-wise, i felt that it wasn't that hard (which maybe is a good thing?? i've heard a little bit about cortisol although idk if that's even relevant...). as a result, i'm contemplating whether to increase the difficulty of my initial set from 5 to 6 or 7 (🤷‍♂️), especially since I eventually want to do 12 incline for the full 30 minutes, which might be harder if i'm doing sets that are becoming easier to do.

anyways, i need to take notes on charge and electric fields and masjids for my classes tomorrow so this is it.

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2/21/2026; beautiful

soooo.... i initially wasn't planning on going to the gym, but then i had this HUGE iftar meal and was so put off by it that i just decided to go to the gym, so here's the summary:

3-3-5, warmup

5-3-10

8-3-10

10.5-3-5

10-3-5

3-3 to 2.1-5, cooldown

SOOOO... compared to yesterday, i was able to get myself back to the 10 incline for a full 10 mins!! before my sickness, i had gotten to 10, but i wanted to try pushing myself to 10.5. i felt a similar exhaustion to yesterday, so i just put it down to 10 for the last 5 mins (although, in retrospect, i prob could have just kept it at 10.5 lol).

what i really liked about today was that I didn't feel that weird core weariness that i felt yesterday, and i, of course, was able to increase after the 8 incline set and go up to 10. i don't really think there was anything i didn't like!! it was so fulfilling to be able to make it back to 10, especially since--in the moment--i was SO close to just going back down to 8. in terms of cardio, i managed to stay in zone 5 (per apple watch), and it also got ranked as a hard workout, which also was really lovely.

it was also after iftar, so i was able to bring my water bottle and actually drink water (which also might be why today went better than yesterday). for ramadan, i might have to just stick to the post-iftar schedule since that seems the easiest/healthiest option for me since I can actually drink water.

for goals, i think i'm going to try doing small increases from now on (i.e., just 0.5 incline increases).

i'm not entirely sure if i'll go tomorrow, since i have a quiz and a few assignments to do, but vamos a ver we will see when the time comes. rn, ima pull my first all-nighter of the year for fun for this quiz cuz i forgot how stressed i get about humanities classes 😭😭😭

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2/20/2026 mashallah first gym post

okkk first day back at the gym this morning, i regressed a little bit in terms of how difficult i can make the treadmill, but my apple watch said it was a hard exercise so i'm not complaining!! here is the overview:

3-3-5, warmup

5-3-10

8-3-10

5-3-10

3-2.5-5, cooldown

previously, i was able to do 3-10-10, but as i was getting to, and finishing the 8-3-10, i felt really exhausted and my core was weirdly engaged, so i cut the increases in incline short. i think part of what contributed to my exhaustion was the lack of water/food due to my ramadan fasts, so i think i'm going to try transitioning to night workouts after iftar so that I can bring water (cuz, unsurprisingly, attempting to do cardio w/o water for 8+ hrs is really really difficult).

okkkk i think thats it, i'll update either sat or sun when i do my next workout <3

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sickness? subsided. unchudification? in progress <3

so, i am no longer sick!!! i initially wanted to go back to the gym Wednesday, but I overslept and I didn't want to think about rearranging my living schedule to go at night. plus, classes are busy thursday and tuesday so here we are, thursday night in preparation for friday morning!

as a life update, I weighed approx. 260+lb in mid Jan. after my winter break trip to Europe to visit family, and after coming home last week, I ended up at 250lb!!! So, definitely progress, although it appears that 250 seems to be a very steady weight for me, so it's good to be back to a weight that my body is used to being and to have lost 10lb in a fairly good time-frame (approx 4 weeks, which translates to 2.5, which is 1% of my weight, blah blah seems healthy?)

further, it is ramadan. I'm not muslim, but my family is and I really want to see what ramadan is like, so i'm (trying) to fast every day (i guess you could call this participant observation). yesterday went well, but today I literally, subconsciously, got a monster from my res hall's vending machine during the fasting period, and ended up drinking it bcuz thats what i do when i finish a task, so that actually made me want to jump off a cliff. oh well, i think people just add a day to ramadan for things like that so i will just have to keep this in mind as a lesson.

part of the reason I wanted to do ramadan, besides my interest in islamic culture and islam itself, is that, because it takes place at this time of the year for 2026, it means that its a LOT shorter than it usually is--just 5am to 6pm for most of the days (avg it out). i am, of course, following a suhoor/iftar calendar from my local masjid (or at least the one closest to my uni), so that I am breaking fast at an appropriate time.

okkk, i will stop rambling!!! i will update tomorrow with my treadmill stuff and wut i did and yada yada yada i am lorde.

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sick and dilapidated. this is the worst

here is a haiku i wrote to start this off:

I woke up, felt sick Sinus pressure, dizziness I feel like dying

I originally wanted to, and planned, to work out today. I fell asleep around 11:00pm last night, the prospective unchudification whirling and dissolving into my thoughts before I fell into slumber. Don't get me wrong, I had been feeling sick the day before, but I had taken an Extra-Strength Advil (it even had acetaminophen!), and also TWO packets of Emergen-C in my waterbottle. Truly, what else was I to expect waking up besides perfect health?

My alarm vibrated me awake (no sound, I don't want to wake up my roommate). 5:30am, which was 30 minutes before the gym opens; mama needs the treadmill and they fill up quick. However, immediately after being woken from my rocky slumber, I knew my body did not respond to my self-medication. Likewise, after brute-forcing my way through the puzzle my alarm app has me do to ensure my morning consciousness, I had two things on my mind.

I am going back to sleep, and

I am not going to the gym today

This was a really unfortunate conclusion, in retrospect. My favorite thing about going to the gym is filling up my Apple Watch rings, and this biological weapon stripped me of that joy. Today was a sad day, indeed.

anyways...

tomorrow, i don't plan on going cuz i feel legitimately horrible, both physically and mentally. like, being sick is such a sad state i hate it so much. i'm dressed for it, just in case--by the grace of god--i actually manage to recover during my slumber.

i'm kind of sad because of this. so far, these past 2-going-on-3 weeks, i've been fairly consistent on my every-other-day stipulation, so having to break it (in a valid sense, though) is unfortunate.