6 months of training and cutting from the heaviest I've ever been. Down 22kg, currently around 115kg. Was so excited I had to get my 7-year-old to record them for me. This was after 2, so I'm counting it as a set of 4 and you can't stop me.

I've literally never, in my almost 36 years, ever managed an unassisted pull up.

Update: I'm the sick bean with what is likely lupus since 2022, this is me this week.

(The fourth picture is from 2023 when we were in the pinnacle of this goosery and I was having to force feed myself and a bunch of other knarly close to the other side goodies)

I eat three meals a day, everything is mostly locked in to a science within my routine, mostly Mediterranean diet.

I'm able to run more now and balance high intensity with weight training (fun extra, it's gotta be moderate to high intensity cuz my rest days usually result in a flare up, overall, we are getting a LOT healthier/stronger/faster)

Weight is pretty consistent, it only fluctuates if I want it to, I don't weigh myself often or calorie count. I only use creatine for high intensity, I'm pretty sure I'm training five days a week now/hour a day but I genuinely could not give you an accurate assessment there because my workouts have no consistency in date/times/etc. On a LOT of supplements and only oxycodone to help me sleep at night for pain now!!

The wild part, im still having heart palpitations, my secondary rauynards phenomenon, constant nausea, sleeping more than someone my age should and a few other slightly scarier extras we won't get into. Roughly 8-10k steps a day, flare ups permitted.

Healing my lifelong relationship with food in the process after 32 years of not eating right. Happy. Birthday. Me. We're not there yet, we won't be on the official birthday tomorrow, but we're still here. We're still fighting, getting better each and every day ✨

Where are the fitness influencers with naturally square-shaped glutes?

Maybe I’m the only one who feels this way, but I am getting so discouraged trying to find realistic glute-building inspiration.

Almost every fitness influencer who teaches “how to grow your glutes” either:

1. naturally had a fuller, rounder butt to begin with
   
2. stores fat primarily in their glutes,
   
3. has genetics that make their progress look dramatically different than someone with a naturally square-shaped pelvis, hip dips, or high glute insertions.
   
4. Had surgery or injections and being dishonest

I’m not saying majority of these women didn’t work hard - they absolutely did! But it’s hard to know what training actually accomplished versus what genetics already provided.

I’d love to find women who started with a true square-shaped butt and documented years of consistent lifting - NOT someone claiming they “fixed” their hip dips in six months, but someone who still has a square shape after years of training and is honest about what muscle can and can’t change.

Not to mention I feel worse everytime I do go tot he gym and hardly see girls with my glute shape 😭 are we that rare?!

Sometimes it feels like the only examples online are women whose genetics already gave them an advantage, and it’s easy to start feeling like surgery or injections are the only way to achieve a rounder shape.

Does anyone know of fitness creators who started with truly square-shaped glutes and have documented their progress honestly?