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Embrace Your Real

My Fitness Goals for 2026

Embrace Your Real

Julie Ledbetter

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

5.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This episode is for you if you are heading into a new year and realizing that your fitness goals need to support more than just how you look. Instead of chasing weight loss, control, or short-term intensity, we talk about what it really means to build habits that support energy, strength, and consistency for the long haul.

I walk you through my fitness goals for 2026, not as a checklist to copy, but as a framework you can use to rethink your own goals in a way that feels supportive and sustainable. This is about shifting the focus from extremes to aligned daily habits, building trust with your body, and choosing routines you can actually maintain as life evolves.

Here is what you will learn:

• Why weight loss is no longer my primary fitness goal
• The daily habits I am prioritizing instead
• How I approach strength training in a sustainable way
• Why total weight moved matters more than perfection
• How aligned habits naturally lead to lasting results

If this conversation resonated, you may also enjoy: Episode 602: 5 Weight Gain Truths You Need to Hear Right Now

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, beautiful human. You're listening to Embrace Your Real with me, Julie Ledbetter,

0:05.4

a podcast where I empower you to just be you. With each episode, I dish you a dose of real talk

0:11.4

and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving

0:16.6

your authentic self. Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real. Let's get and let's go. Hello and welcome back to another episode on the Embrace for a podcast. I am so excited about the new year because it has allowed me to really be thinking about what I want my fitness to be

0:39.0

and how I want it to support my life, not just how I want to look or the number on the scale,

0:43.3

that temporary goal that I chase for a few months and then abandon, but really like how do I

0:47.8

want to feel on a day-to-day basis? How do I want to move throughout my life in 2026?

0:52.1

And how do I want my body to support me long term? Because if I'm being

0:55.2

really honest, I've had seasons where my goals were rooted in control and intensity and really trying

1:01.5

to prove something. And while those seasons have taught me a lot, they're not how I want to move

1:06.3

forward anymore. And so today I just want to kind of walk you through my fitness goals for 2026, not as a checklist that you need to copy, but more as like a framework that you can

1:15.2

use to think about your own goals in a way that really supports energy and longevity and

1:20.0

consistency instead of burnout. So in today's episode, I'm going to be breaking down why my goals

1:25.0

are no longer centered around weight loss, the daily habits that I'm

1:28.3

going to be prioritizing instead, how I'm personally approaching strength training in a sustainable

1:33.2

way, just being a new mom and being busy and also working, why total weight move matters more

1:39.4

than perfection and then how aligned habits naturally lead to results. My hope is that this episode really helps

1:46.1

you zoom out and ask a better question than how do I just lose weight? And instead, start asking

1:51.6

yourselves like, okay, what kind of habits does my future self actually need? Before we dive in,

1:56.7

though, I want to share this review. She gave a five-star review and said, you need this. Stop everything

2:01.5

you're doing and listen. This is a nice dose of reality and motivation. I've been doing movement

2:05.4

with Julie for a few months now and I've never felt so empowered. Julie, girl, you are changing the

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