I did hit my 100lb bench last night! And it was relatively easy so that felt good. I feel like my prospects for hitting 150 next year are good. I know its more likely that I'll slam into a stall at some point before then but I'll also be pretty happy with 135 and that should be no sweat.

As far as protein, I think I mostly do what the other ladies do. Although, since I'm currently eating 2100 cals I find protein very easy to hit, but I make it easier on myself by having a scoop of protein powder in the morning. I finally found 2 flavors that are pretty decent in just water - they're a little pricy but its worth it to me because most of the other stuff I tried was bleh at best or actively disgusting at worst and needed to be hid in other stuff. So I do 1 scoop of powder around 10am, before I've eaten real food so my brain isn't like "this isn't food, what is this crap?" which is 115 cals for 23 grams of protein, and then the rest of the day I just choose foods that are protein rich over foods that are not.

I also use stuff like salami for my evening snack - its harder for me because I'm not all that into sweets in general AND I'm lactose intolerant so I can't eat as much greek yogurt and cheese as other people do (plus the only yogurt I actually like is whole fat yogurt) but light string cheese is also a great snack.

When my cals were lower, I used to do a can of tuna with a few tablespoons of fresh salsa - like pico de gallo type - which is delicious and adds very few extra calories to the tuna. Also good is stuff like - swap in quinoa for your carb instead of rice or bread, or find higher protein bread options, use Barilla plus pasta instead of whole wheat or regular (higher protein and fiber, plus it tastes better than whole wheat).