New and need some advice Please :)

86girl

HI I am new here. So here is my back story. got up to 210 a few years ago. I always said if I ever hit 200+ that was it I had to do something. So stared to watch my calories and dropped 10 pounds it took me 5 months. started using MFP dropping my cals really low to 12000 and lost another 10 pounds in 2 months. Was laid up with a knee injury at the time. Come Sept. my doctor put me on a controversial diet and I lost 13 pounds and 3% body weight in 32 days in 2011. I tried the same diet on my own and kept dropping pounds until i reached 145. Then I kept losing and regaining the 10-20 pounds. Last year I decided to take a break and just eat and exercise (cardio, hiit and lifting). My body seemed happy, I was putting on muscle like crazy and toning some but staying the same on the scale and inches. Realize now I was probably in a building phase or recomp. Everyone kept telling me how good I looked but I freaked out at the scales going up. So tried to diet again. BIG mistake. so stopped again. it took me months to get my body stable again. then got in an accident. and started eating everything in sight. I realize now my weight did not really jump considering what I was eating. So after I healed I stared to drop my cals again. But indulged over the holidays and was dropping again. Started to work out again and drop cals. saw changes in my body but not on the scale. Finally found EM2WL. Realized the reason I dropped over the holidays was the increase in cals. so been reading posts and wanted to ask for advice.
my stats: 5'2.5" age 35 current weight 167-168lb. last bf%32
I do light to moderate cardio almost daily (hike, walk, elliptical, recumbent stationary, treadmill, WATP videos) cant lift right now due to shoulder issues (based on dr. advice) working out at home
katch cal calculator for 1-3 hours a week BMR 1490, TDEE 2049, 15% 1742
katch cal calculator for 3-5 hours a week BMR 1490, TDEE 2310, 15% 1963

Wanted to start at 15% for a few weeks before going up to TDEE.
day 1 168.8lb. 1509cal 330cals burn in exercise
day 2 2068cals 571cals burned in ex.
day 3 1993cals
day 4 2573cals 129cals burned in ex.
day 5 2045cals 194cals burned in ex.
day 6 1887 167.6 pounds


So far 6 days you can see my cals have been all over and some days a bit over TDEE. currenlty aiming for around 1750 to see how i do. so far my weight is up and down but by only 1-2 pounds.Any advice on how to proceed?
p..s sorry for the long post.


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Greenrun99

The calculators you are using actually add in your exercise calories, so the number it gives you is the number you eat.. So you don't add exercise calories kinda thing. So guessing your activity level is kind of important... With your background I would slowly work your way up to 2310 calories, and eat that daily and see how your body responds.
From what it sounds I would guess your activity level is probably the 3-5 hours a week level, and nobody here likes the scale so I wouldn't go on it daily. But I would probably eat at your TDEE for a few weeks to see how your body reacts (record weight, all that and see if it slowly starts to level off)