Need confirmation I'm doing this right

TI30x

Yes, I guess I'm freaking out slightly. I know weight loss is not linear, but this loss looks a bit too fast for me. Though I think you'll say that I need to calm down and look at this for a few more weeks?

Start weight: 64.6kg (2. January)
weight stable over December
Goal weight: about 58kg
Female
Age: 44
Size: 1.69m

Setting: lose 0.25kg per week.
MFP gives me 1340kcal
and hence a TDEE of 1590kcal. I'm sedentary

Been eating 8 days about 100kcal above target, 2 days at maintenance, 1 day about 600kcal above maintenance.

Sport: 10 days bodyweight interval exercises of 25-30 minutes average. I don't think they burn a ton of calories (started this around Christmas, thus no sport noob water weight gain anymore)

So with barely a deficit I currently lose at a rate of 0.64kg per week, and overall at 0.48kg. Am I underestimating those workouts so much, or is my TDEE so much higher?

Further facts: no TOMs as I'm on the pill in longterm cycle, hypothyroid/hashimoto (been feeling good, but not hyper for the past 6 months), no traveling. I've seem to be gaining muscles very easily, but I noticed this before in the past. Last time I checked I was a woman though

kommodevaran

When you reduce calorie intake, you reduce food intake and carbs intake. Food has weight and carbs bind water. You are doing great! I don't think your TDEE is 1590, you are taller, (a bit) younger and more active than me, and I manitain a healthy weight on around 1850-900 calories. You are right on schedule.

TI30x

kommodevaran wrote: »

When you reduce calorie intake, you reduce food intake and carbs intake. Food has weight and carbs bind water. You are doing great! I don't think your TDEE is 1590, you are taller, (a bit) younger and more active than me, and I manitain a healthy weight on around 1850-900 calories. You are right on schedule.

Thanks. Aww, what a lovely avatar you have!

I ran a few other calculators and they all put me on similar TDEEs without workouts. But my guess is as well that it's quite a bit higher. Plus I build muscles so enormously quickly from just doing bodyweight exercises. It's nearly unreal. I don't mind, mind but it's odd nonetheless.

With regards to food: ehm.. Yes, I cut out things like crisps and reduced other candy, but the last bit of reduction comes mainly from using a bit less cooking oil, a bit less feta, a bit less other things very heavy in calories. Thus I don't think my carbs are so much lower. I am a carb addict, and they keep me full more than fats and protein.

yirara

Love, it is early days but you might be the same as me: much higher TDEE and building muscles quickly. We're the same size. For me, it was 1.5kg more down and I started getting visible abs. In the end I had a 4-pack. Originally, I set my weight loss to lose 0.5kg per week, but lost about 3kg per month all the way to the end (with untreated hashimotos) and then had problems finding my maintenance calories and lost some more weight along the way, while being very 'toned'.

Regained some weight due to depression, but lost it equally quickly again.