What is your fitness goals

I'd also say none of the above, for me. I have to admit, I find the options confusing.

I guess weight gain/loss are goals, but those are mostly about balancing food intake with overall activity IMO/IME.

In my view, cardio and strength are exercise types, loosely, not goals. I guess the related goals would be improving the cardiovascular system, or increasing strength or muscularity (not exactly the same things), but that's pretty abstract.

Part of my confusion is that I really dislike "cardio" as a category descriptor. It includes too many activities, with different characteristics. Some kinds of cardio also develop strength to a certain extent, and that strength may be focused on certain body areas. (Example: Cyclists tend to develop some of the leg muscles, but not much upper body.) Some kinds of cardio don't much do that. There are even different aspects of the cardiovascular (CV) system that different exercises emphasize.

Mostly, I'm active because I want to do active things I find so fun I'd do them even if they weren't good for me, and because I feel crummy if I skip being active for more than a brief few days. (I get moody, stiff, mildly depressive, etc.)

My fitness goals include wanting to stay strong, functional and independent as long as possible. (I'm already 67 y/o.) I also want to maintain or increase my on-water and machine rowing skill and performance, at least in age-group terms. Further, I hope for the rowing, cycling, and other CV exercise I do to keep my early stage, mostly asymptomatic COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, a lung problem) asymptomatic for as long as possible.

I was already athletically active while obese, for over a dozen years. My CV fitness was already better than average for women in my demographic, even healthy-weight women, at that time. I didn't particularly increase exercise to lose weight. I did put a higher priority on strength training during loss, to maintain as much of my existing muscle as possible while losing fat, but I'd been strength training to some extent for most of that dozen years, too.

Exercise is mostly for fun and health, IMO. It does burn a few more calories vs. not being active, which will let a person eat a bit more while losing weight at the same rate, and perhaps preserve muscle during that loss. Exercise won't inherently trigger weight gain, though it can influence what type of tissue (muscle vs. fat) is gained in a calorie surplus.

Have a body that allows me to live my best life.