Realistic goals, in need of help?

fivefootfitness
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Hi! I'm a 19 year-old college student who is home for the summer. I've always been a tad overweight, and it has gradually improved since I started trying to eat well and workout regularly about three years ago. I'm now steadily in the middle of my weight range (about 115 at 5'. my max is around 125, my min healthy weight is 95). I know 115 is a great weight for any adult woman, but I'm still really trying to lose my stomach fat. I'm not talking little skinny teenager skin "rolls", but almost all of my excess fat is in my potbelly. i've always have slender arms and legs, and the legs in my family tend to rapidly grow bulky muscle (plus, fencing, dance, and running have all contributed to mine) So, my body is grand, but i just want to nix this belly that has plagued me.

I'm happily several months into remission from disordered eating that I've carried all my life (fasting and bingeing since i was little, later evolved into fasting and compulsive purging). I've even managed to healthily drop the first five or six "happy pounds" i put on [on top of my other freshman weight gain haha] that I gained this winter/early remission over the last few weeks.

my eating is back on track! i was eating way too much junk food and stopped running from being super sick in the late winter last semester. and i'm planning to change my fall meal plan to where i precook some meals on sundays and keep my breakfast egg-eating going during the school year.

SO. At 115 I would personally love to get my weight back around 100, visually at least. I don't care if I weight 150 lbs if it's all muscle. I just want to get this fat to a healthy place. I've also done some fat percentage things and I know it's higher than it should be. I have about 11 weeks to keep working on my health. My running goals are to get back to running a consistent mile and a half, I was doing an almost comfortable 5k before I got sick this winter. So, I figure that ought to help with my fat loss. I LOVE strength and will be getting some help to start using weight machines at my school in the fall (SO PUMPED), but am sticking to higher weight dumbbell exercises, then my old dance and fencing pilates sort of toning stuff.

What are some good non-weight goals for me? I have a bunch of old jeans that just don't fit, so I've got my eyes on those, but leg and butt muscle growth might make that a no-go until i really lose my love handles. I'm also too heavy chested for my own comfort and don't want to buy new bras haha, and I know that's an area I gain/lose weight in easily too. Maybe weight rep goals? Measurement goals? I'm unusually lost for proper goals now that I'm not obsessed with the scale, you know?

I'm snacking less and less and eating less sugar (a huge problem for me), which I'm so proud of, so that little goal of mine is sort of already being met.



Help?

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