So how much did you gain through the reset, and fast or slowly during the entire time?
Like last 2-3 weeks, still gaining?

You may have been eating in surplus to actual TDEE, and now with cut you are eating at actual TDEE.

Now, even doing that, should see inches move.

Has lifting the last 2 months while supposedly on a cut gotten more difficult compared to supposedly eating at TDEE?

How much time with the lifting weekly, you said 60 min weekly HIIT?

Is the HIIT using the same muscles you are lifting with, right after the workout, or day after?

HIIT, if even being done really, was the answer to those that only liked to do cardio, to get some lifting type improvement in their workout.

Now it's taken on fad scope as great fat burner, which indeed, lifting is, and HIIT being like lifting, is too.
But would you lift with the same muscles day after day? Why not?

Ok, good to know on the intervals, which they are, those aren't HIIT. Too long for the hard part, not enough time for recovery. Intervals are still useful though, those should help improve the lactate threshold and storing glucose for the effort.

So does your non-exercise activity include a lot of movement with that little guy?
Was that increased daily activity factored in to your selection of Activity level?

Because exercise by itself, with sedentary desk job and lifestyle otherwise, would be BMR x 1.39.
But I doubt that is true with the little guy, got a dog with walking too?

If you have 6 hrs on your feet daily moving around rather than a sedentary desk job sitting, that would be BMR x 1.5.

Do you know what level you picked?

In addition, if you started with BMR based on age, weight, height and you have less than expected LBM, then your BMR was actually lower. Then again, could be higher.

Do you do the intervals the day after lifting? When your muscles are trying to recovery and repair from that lifting session?
Intervals with those same muscles is not a good idea.

Exercise if done right tears the body down.
Rest for repair and recovery is what actually builds it up, if eating right. There is no actual improvement during the workout.

Since repair from lifting can take 24-36 hrs (how long have you been sore for sometimes), are you killing that repair process by putting a new hard load on the same muscles?

Probably are it sounds like, you aren't getting nearly out of that lifting workout what you could get, some if not all is wasted effort if the body can't repair and be made stronger.

And trying to do real HIIT, which again is like lifting for cardio-only activity (all out anaerobic push followed by rest, do it again, sound like lifting?) means you can't frankly do it right with tired muscles.
Oh, it'll feel the same since you are pushing to failure, but until you compare it with fresh muscles, you'd never know.
Your lifting too means the body is trying to recovery from this interval session the day before, and trying to lift with tired muscles means you aren't getting full benefit from your lifting time then.

If lifting, skip the HIIT.
There is rarely a good place to put it in a schedule, unless you skip lifting with those muscles and do the HIIT instead.

Are you wanting to do the HIIT for fat burn during the repair later (which you aren't giving it anyway), or because you want to train your anaerobic carb burning system to higher levels for a race or event?

So it sounds like your daily activity, job and family, is easily Lightly Active already, probably more.
Exercise just adds on top of that.

Many reported after they got FitBit, it matched up with the TDEE from spreadsheet if they were honest with the activity calculator.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/961054-spreadsheet-for-bodyfat-bmr-tdee-progress-tracker

You are for sure underestimating your daily burn with that much activity.

And super heavy is relative to you. if you are lifting in maintenance mode, finish a set and you could have done more easily, yes, not heavy. If whatever weight you do is almost failure on the last reps of last set, that's heavy for you. That's what is required for the body to feel the need to improve.

And it's that improvement that burns a lot of fat during the repair process. If you don't kill it by overloading the same muscles again.

If you are doing the lifting to almost failure, there is not a way in the world you could do proper HIIT afterwards.

Again, HIIT is for those that only want to do cardio, no lifting. But they want the great effects of lifting, like improvement in strength for their cardio event, and burning fat later.

You are doing lifting, skip the attempt to do a bad HIIT routine.

The lifting is doing exactly whatever you have read about HIIT being a benefit to doing, but much better at it - because it's the real thing.

Stick with your intervals of 1:1, having tired muscles already you aren't getting the same benefit from them as you would otherwise, but for many it feels good, and that's totally valid reason. But at that point you aren't going anaerobic, and it's not going to have the same post workout effect. But at least the lifting is already doing that.

And if you don't need the feeling of intervals, 20 min straight cardio would help clear out the muscles better anyway, getting recovery going on the right foot.

If you want real HIIT on the lifting days where you did not use those muscles already, then do the following after 5 min warmup.
30 seconds all out, so jump that resistance way up and punch it. HR should easily get up in to the anaerobic HR zone. If not then the muscles were too tired to cause it to happen.
90 seconds almost walking speed and recovery back to fat-burning HR zone, better called for ages Active Recovery HR zone.
Repeat 5 times.
5 min cooldown.

If you want to see the difference between doing them after workout without using same muscle, compared to having lifted already, try it. Especially if you have HR monitor. It should feel the same, pushing as hard as you can, but the HR shows you can't push as hard with already tired muscles.
If you can't push as hard, the response for improvement is different, it's endurance now, not strength.
And it's repair for the strength that causes fat burn during repair. Endurance is just store more glucose in the required muscles so you aren't as tired next time.

Progress of loss of body fat - eat at reasonable deficit, that's it. Too much and muscle will go with it. The lifting is to help retain muscle mass, and during start recomp the body if you've lost muscle mass from prior diets.

You weigh all food that goes in to your mouth, except measuring liquids?

Because I'm pretty sure your activity level is underestimated, except you did keep gaining weight through reset, so perhaps not.

That leaves getting your TDEE based on Katch BMR using bodyfat%, just in case there is a difference.

Now, even if you were eating at maintenance literally right now because of using inflated figures in the math, you'd still be losing inches with weight lifting.

So while that is likely the reason the numbers don't line up right, the end result is the same.

You'll need to actually cut more.

If it's been a whole month at this routine and eating level with deficit with no changes, then take 100 more off your eating goal.

Still use the spreadsheet for some good info and to track progress.

Sorry for asking so many questions. But how much more should I cut? I spent all of last year @ 1750 and I stalled out after about. months. I have 1950 as my goal right now (before I recalculated) but if I was over by 100-150 I didn't think twice about it. So how low should I go? Should I adjust my ratio of macros? I'm really trying to do this on my own without having to pay for a fitness/nutrition plan. I weigh pretty much everything or give a good guesstimate based on having done this for awhile.

What is your actual average eating amount, from the stats, since reset?

You said 2000 was about what you were already doing since reset. I mentioned dropping 100.

While at 1750, were you doing exact same routine and amount of daily activity as now? No measurement changes during that time?

I don't have enough stats to confirm you have protein macro set to 1 g per lb of LBM, or at most 0.82 g per lb of weight.
But need to meet that goal.

Any health issues, food sensitivities/allergies, thyroid symptoms.

Use the spreadsheet please to get some other stats, and those recommendations are based on studies it gives.

Just wanted to thank you and Heybales for this thread. Much of it relates to me, so it's been helpful!