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Hey everyone! I've been lurking for several months and I'm excited to try a challenge. I'm a 5'11" lady and weigh 210 pounds with 33% body fat. I gained 50 pounds in the first three years of college (endless booze and brownie sundaes) and lost them over the past three years with food tracking/MyFitnessPal. I started lifting over a year ago, which I love! I go to the gym four days a week for bench, squat, accessory stuff, and cardio. Now that I've maintained at my pre-college weight for several months, I want to get my calorie intake back in check after some slacking and kick my cardio up a notch. I'm hoping to get down to 200 pounds by Thanksgiving. Main goal: become Amazonian- tall (check) and strong (working on it) with ~25% body fat Goal 1: keep calorie intake at or under 2,000 for four days each week. I've really been struggling with this, and am going to try limiting late night snacks and keeping sweets out of the house. Goal 2: take cardio seriously- 20 minutes every time I'm at the gym, paying more attention to my heart rate than to Us Weekly. Goal 3: have active rest days! Take advantage of the coming fall and go for walks, or hit the apartment gym for 20 minutes of biking. Side goals: hit a new bench 1RM of 140 and take 10 minutes to journal each day. Woo!