Sal Di Stefano

How can we help you?

Um, so I'm going to do what I pretty much heard everybody else do, and that is read my question, but I'm going to add in some stuff that's kind of happened since I, uh, uh, I sent it in.

So overall context, I'm 41.

I'm weighing about 245, 250.

Um, I'm 71 inches tall, had a BMI of about 35 to 34.

Uh, and as of my last in body, uh, two months ago, I had around 31% body fat.

which translates to roughly about 80 pounds.

So for the past two years, I've been doing a bunch of barbell training, lifting two to three days a week and trying to get back into running shape after I had a foot surgery back in 2023.

To do that, I've been eating around 2300.

So that breaks out to like 200 protein, 63 fat, 240 carb with about 35 to 40 grams of fiber.

which when I started that was told that that was like a 200 to 300 calorie deficit for what should have been my maintenance.

For the two years prior to that, I was eating about 100 to 200 lower than that.

And before that, so call that four or five years ago, I was eating at 1950 because that was the number I had.

I believe that at the 1950, though, I was starving myself and I never like fully recovered from that.

And over the course of this, what I figured out is I'm having some very crushing fatigue and I'm not seeing progress in the gym to kind of make a long story short.

I recently decided that the appropriate goal for me is to get into that 15 to 20 percent body fat range and not try and get to an actual scale number.

I'm active duty military and they're changing fitness component to be a two mile run that for my body size.

Right now, to get a passing score, as I'm airing my dirty loader here, would need about a 16 and a half, two mile run.

I'm about a minute slower than that.

All to be said, I don't feel like I'm making progress in the gym.