TDEE Activity Level - Help defining it would be appreciated

Yivs_87

Hello all!

I need some help defining my activity level to get an accurate TDEE.

My specs:
- Female;
- 171cm;
- 83 kgs;
- 30 (I'm still 29, but my birthday is like a month away, so... yeah)

My BMR is calculated at 1618; Using http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

A bit pre-history - I've been on and off counting calories, but you can say that for the past one month I've been quite serious about it. The first week or so I was aiming at my BMR with no workouts, but after I got the OK from my doctor to go back to working out for real (I am currently 9 months post OP from ACL reconstruction, was allowed to do only simple rehab exercises, and I didn't bother with anything else), I upped my calories to 1700 for light activity that included doing 2-3 workouts at home per week - DVDs Body Pump and Insanity MAX 30 modifier version.

For about 10 days I lost maybe 1 kg.

After that I included biking on weekends once the weather was good. It's been 2 weekends since I started doing this. The past one week I went back to the gym, including a more serious workout... And now +1 kg back to 83kgs x'D

Starting this week I intend my workout schedule to be the following:
- 2 gym days that will include: Strong Lifts 5x5 + leg press + inside/outside tighs+ lat pulldown + 20 min cardio (so far I burn around 700 calories during such a workout - yes, I know the HRM is not accurate about burning calories, but it gives me an estimation of my effort / heart performance); The whole thing with warm up and stretch puts me at about 1.5hrs; For the SL I'm currently at either empty Olympic barbell or 2x2.5kgs - very light, but I'm mindful of my knee.
- 1 or 2 home workouts in between gym days - most probably the Insanity Max 30 modifier version, to rest from lifting - 30 minutes, roughly about 400 calories burnt;
- On good weather weekends: 15-20 km biking (roughly 800-1000 calories) x 2;
- On bad weather weekends: home workout x 2 - 30ish minutes insanity OR rowing machine 30 min/400 cals OR stationary biking 30 min / 300 cals;

I'd put myself at 'Moderate activity'. I'm currently feeling quite tired (and you can see with the crazy burn I get) after my workouts but I'm simply obviously way out of shape. Prior to my injury I was getting no more than 450-500 cals burn for the same gym workouts and no more than 200-300 for the home editions (without modifications).

What do you recon?

sijomial

Way over complicating things!
You are trying to estimate a rough average TDEE - that's all, just a reasonable start point.

Add up how many hours of exercise and pick one of the options on Scooby.
Eat at that level that for a month.
Adjust based on actual weight loss results + hunger + energy levels.

If you want to be more precise then use MFP's NEAT method not TDEE method.