{"id":23,"date":"2022-07-02T01:27:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T22:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/?p=23"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:39:49","slug":"re-starting-my-health-journey-looking-for-some-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/re-starting-my-health-journey-looking-for-some-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"(Re)starting my health journey – looking for some advice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi, all.<\/p>\n

I have a very on-again, off-again relationship with my weight and my health\/fitness journey. I have all the equipment anyone could want or need – PR-4000 rack, Nordictrack tread, WaterRower, Rep SSB and Kabuki Trap Bar HD on the way in July.<\/p>\n

In the height of the shutdowns, I was as low as 183, was probably 186 when I got married at the end of 2021, and then I totally let things go and now I’m back up to 213. (For the record, this is about the heaviest I’ve ever been.)<\/p>\n

I’m using a combination of Fitbod (3x\/week), WaterRower (1x\/week), and treadmill (1x\/week, 10-degree incline, 2.5 mph), with two off days. Back to weighing and logging everything in MFP.<\/p>\n

I did the IIFYM deal (again) and it gave me something like 2488 calories a day to lose<\/strong> weight. I knocked it down to 2200 with a 50\/30\/20 carb\/protein\/fat split. I think my big ask is – does that sound okay? Too much? Too little? Bad distribution?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I (re)started a few weeks ago, I was trying to do 2000 calories a day and just couldn’t get through it. I was ravenous at the end of the day, so I tried to split the difference on 2488 and 2000.<\/p>\n

Obviously, I want to lose weight, sure. But I’m trying to take a more holistic approach – it’s not a weight-loss thing, it’s a health thing. I just want to be stronger, fitter, healthier in the body I have. Like I tell my wife, I want to be old with her one day. So, I want to be healthier now so I can be older with her later. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, all. I have a very on-again, off-again relationship with my weight and my health\/fitness journey. I have all the equipment anyone could want or need – PR-4000 rack, Nordictrack tread, WaterRower, Rep SSB and Kabuki Trap Bar HD on the way in July. In the height of the shutdowns, I was as low as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}