How close or far apart are the 2 bodyfat calcs?
And do you recognize one of those body measurements as being a body part that you've always noticed seems to be out of proportion to rest of body? (like skinny calves for bigger thighs/hips, or wrist compared to forearm)

Measure food, or weigh food? Liquids is only thing truly having calories based on volume or measuring. Everything else, even ice-cream, calorie label is based on weight, even if they do give a measuring value for ease of use, and sadly great potential for inaccuracy.

And as a woman, your BMR actually goes up and down through the month, as much as 200 calories. So yes you can have some weeks of gain, extra water retention.

But it indeed could be the BF% spread is decent enough, and you are truly not avg but more towards one end, and less LBM than avg would give, therefore smaller TDEE.

If you changed the BF stat to the higher calculated value, how much does the TDEE change?

It also may be that the range of calorie burn assigned to each level in the activity calc based on your BMR, is actually on the high side, and you burn on the low side. But, the changing above would cause lower burn here too, so that is corrected.
What kind of levels and time did you use in the activity calculator?

So neither the BF %, nor the level and time of exercise would throw off that much of an estimate, and food logging side of equation is pretty good too it sounds like.

Time to adjust then, because it doesn't sound like you are coming at this from the low end, but safely from the high side.

So unless your body is dealing with several other major stresses outside diet and exercise (and it could be), time to adjust down.

Probably start with 200 cal less daily eaten.

Or keep eating at what appears to be maintenance, and get some serious strength training in to hopefully increase LBM, hopefully muscle too. That would increase your TDEE to allow better eating levels.
Or doing more cardio of course would increase TDEE for better eating levels.

If you have the new spreadsheet that has the RMR cell available to put a stat in, I'd suggest entering an RMR and adjust it down until the TDEG shows as 200 lower than without the RMR value.
That way you can still log your progress tab results with some consistency.

With all stats filled in as normal, up to the body fat% stat, whether calculated or you have measured.
Go over to the TDEE Deficit tab, and near top right is RMR info.
Calculated based on BF%, just like Katch BMR is. Note what the Cunningham RMR is.
Back to the Simple Setup tab.
Enter that Cunningham as RMR figure to start with.
Get your activity stuff set back up again and confirm the TDEE and TDEG is what you were using.
Now go back to the RMR stat above, and lower it by probably 200.
See if the TDEG went down by 200.
Probably not, but you'll have to adjust a few times to nail it, or as close as you desire.

That way you are reflecting in the numbers what seems to be the case anyway, your RMR is lower than expected for your LBM.

You aren't doing much cardio, right, just walking? But you used to do more?

I didn't catch anywhere you were doing the EFFY method, sorry if I missed that. Change of plan if you want that slower method.
Let me know if that is the case.

If it is not what you were using, then the following applies.
So 1665 close to the TDEE 1643 that includes the walking in the activity calc, right?
What was the TDEG prior that you were eating too, close to 1494?

I think I'm starting to get confused, because I also caught reference in prior post you went to TDEE Deficit tab.

Let's just stick on Simple Setup tab, with stats correct, RMR cell blank. Using that BF% from the calc's avg.
And activity calc filled in with your planned walking.

What is the TDEE and TDEG?

Now put in that RMR that the TDEE Deficit tab gave you, the TDEE and TDEG should be the same, maybe a couple calories off because of math rounding differences.

Ok, good. You may have accidentally left in the sample BF figure of 42%.
(EFFY TDEG is based on different figure, it's goal weight TDEE less 5%, so usually less of a deficit, unless very overweight, it will be different)


So, have you been eating over the 1500 already for a while, is that 1500 already a lower goal that you should give it 3-4 weeks?

Or your avg eating level for past month has already been there at 1500 and no lose of weight or measurements?

If the former, hold to 1500 now for 3-4 weeks.

If the latter, lower the RMR figure by probably 250 first.
See if the TDEE is at 1475 (seems hard to believe really, but my RMR is 200 below expected by tested LBM figure)
If not, adjust that RMR until the TDEE says 1475.
Then use the new TDEG goal.

You've already had a recent time where you at basically ate with no deficit, so a beneficial diet break was had. Good.

Yes I have been eating around ~1650 calories since the middle of May.

I will do what you suggested and go down to 1500 for a month so (oh how hard it will be to give up those extra calories again!) to see what happens. The spreadsheet puts me at a .3 pound a week loss with that, but that is hard to look for when things fluctuate so much day to day.

So true, that's why it's also said to go longer, so a full lb can really show up. Also, you may retain water and then get whoosh effect and drop 5 lbs.