Overate and Losing?

honeylissabee
honeylissabee Posts: 217 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I decided to ease myself into a lower calorie diet (lower than what I normally eat). I am doing the TDEE -20% by using my HRM, Fitbit, and my sedentary TDEE to calculate my daily goals.

Last week, I overate by an average of 770 calories per day. Now, I know I've increased my activity level, but I still ate 300-400 calories over what I should eat to maintain. Yet, I lost 0.2 pounds this week.

I know that weight is likely natural fluctuation, but the math doesn't add up here. I don't understand how I lost any weight.

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  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,262 Member
    Finding actual TDEE over the internet is not reliable. Recording food intake and energy expenditure is another area that generally is out by 20+% on average. Overall you need to record your progress over at least 12 weeks to forecast trends simply because weight fluctuation happens daily and weekly.
  • honeylissabee
    honeylissabee Posts: 217 Member
    Well, I don't have the money to get my BMR and TDEE tested every month, so I have to rely on internet sources.
  • generallyme2
    generallyme2 Posts: 403 Member
    .2 isn't a lot, so it could very well be water weight or natural shifts. Look for long term patterns and keep doing what works for you :)
  • Thena81
    Thena81 Posts: 1,265 Member
    your getting energy from the food which helps you burn more so u eat more in return and your doing a great job! go chickie!
  • tattedbarbz
    tattedbarbz Posts: 30
    This is no help to you but thought id mention last night I binged and ate a curry and rice with 2 naans and a glass of coke and still lost 0.75lbs over night. Cant work it out either

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