First timer help with TDEe
Hi, I’m 37 m 5’9” and 200lb. I’ve never felt fat before, but recently had a baby, a couple injuries (lower back and smashed and rebuilt calcaneus), and recently three bad sicknesses; flu, rsv, E. Coli, all in the last two months. I went from 180 a year ago to 200 and don’t like it. I’ve started a journal to track pictures, weight, body part sizes, workouts, and food intake. My job is very physically demanding and I just joined a gym again. I’m used to pushing myself physically, so an extra 2-3 hours of dedicated exercising isn’t overloading my muscles. Doing a mix of cardio, weight lifting (focusing on not building up lactic acid nor doing too much weight my back or ankle could get hurt) and light intensity swimming. Not sure which activity level I’d fall under. Moderate, heavy, or athlete? I assumed heavy and the maintenance intake for that gave 2900 cal and 221g of protein. I’m on day four and my average intake has been 1900 cal, but quite off of that protein number. Anyone with more experience think I should change anything, or just keep at it like this for a couple of weeks and see how it goes and adjust from there, or is there something screaming at you that I’m doing wrong? Thanks so much :)