Semi-Fit Husband, Turned Fat Dad, On the way to Become Shredded Dad

Hello Everyone, Thanks for stopping by to read my post!

As I stated in the Title, I have a beautiful daughter that will be turning two, 10 days from today!

A bit of history on me:

• Grew up naturally athletic (unfortunately, not academically gifted lol)
• Played every damn sport that I could on a competitive level: Tennis, Basketball, Soccer, Golf, Track, Chess (apparently my HS considered this a 'sport' lol), etc
• Greatest Athletic Achievements: NJ State Champs Varsity Tennis, 3rd Dan Black Belt (14 years of training at Kukkiwon Certified Dojo) Taekwondo, NJ State Chess Tournament 3rd Place, NCAA D3 Tennis Captain, NCAA Division Tournament 2nd Place, and although this is not my personal achievement - Coached and mentored 3 children (1 boy, 2 girls) in tennis to make their HS Varsity team
• After graduating with my bachelors, started working and met my wife on a return flight from a business trip (it's a really great story)
• Got married and 2 years later, found out that we are going to be parents!

I put on some extra pounds my Senior year of College and when I started working after graduation. Okay fine...... it was a LOT! The freshman 15 was never existent for me but the senior 35 was! The reason being, I tore my right ACL during a Tennis PRACTICE match the beginning of my Senior year. I went from super active to laying in bed with my right leg straight, TV remote to my right, take-out Chinese to my left....... needless to say, fat was in excess. Over the course of 8 months or so (surgery + rehab + laziness) I went from 190 to 225. They say muscle is heavier than fat..... well.... I lost a lot of muscle and still gained 35 lbs.

When I graduated and started working, I fell in love with pizza, buffets, fast food, take-out anything really...... this lead to gaining an additional 10 lbs with no time (at least in my lazy mind) to workout, nor did I really want to.

So, why did my beautiful wife marry me? lol
I'm not sure...... but I am one lucky SOB

When we found out that we were becoming parents, I read an article online that said children naturally respect fit parents over fat parents. I didn't follow up on what was stated on this article with backup research, but it still had a huge impact on me. I started hitting the gym for the first time, in a long time (5+ years).

Right before my daughter was born, I got down to 192 (8 months of gym 6x a week and hard dieting). WOOHOO! Then, my precious daughter came into the world........

Screw the gym, screw dieting....... I just want to spend time at home with my family. Guess what happened? Yeap..... back to 215 in about 2 years. Freaking 23 lbs! Ugh......

Recently, I found myself with time being a bit more flexible than it was previously as I started my own company.... I'm in staffing - hit me up if you need recruiting services!

AND

No more excuses! This time around, I'm not losing weight/getting fit just for my family, but for myself as well.

MY GOALS:
Target Weight: Don't have one, and don't need one
Target Body Fat %: Around 13~15%
Other: Finally show my wife a six pack so when our washing machine breaks, I'll just lay in the bathtub and she can scrub the clothes on my washboard LOL ...... I'm just kiddingggg.... maybe.... OK FINE!.... I'm not.....
Other Other: Everlasting energy when hanging out with my precious daughter

I just recently found this website and found it to be inspiring as well as effective in keeping track of my macro's.

Anyway, wanted to share my story....... if you read it from start to finish, thank you for listening/reading and I hope you have a great day filled with lots of activity!