Let me be the first to welcome you!!!!!

I already sent you the link for Heybale's most AWESOME spreadsheet--were you able to fill it out and get your TDEE and BMR?
TDEE=Total Daily Energy Expenditure...this is how many calories YOU burn on a given day with a set amount of activities. ( including work, sleep, working out, etc.)
BMR=Basal Metabolic Rate...this is the amount of calories require for maintaining basic bodily function.

Basically eating a a low deficit over time will cause the body to compensate by lowering your metabolic rate...this can cause you to lose weight--at first, but then either plateau or even gain while the deficit becomes greater and greater. If this is the case...a RESET is in order! You can work up to your TDEE either slowly, 100-200 calories at a time, or jump in head first ( like I did!). How long is a reset? Each person is different. It just really depends on how depleted your body is to how much time it requires to heal. So you decide...what is your long term goal? You've done a great job losing so far...but you want to be healthy....and face it eating to be healthy is way better than feeling yucky, tired and hungry all the time!

As for your workout....it's circuit training if you are doing either body weight for resistance ( like pushups, squats), and your are going at a rate that doesn't allow a break in between sets. Have you or are you planning on starting a lifting routine? It's not mandatory....but really an awesome way to build lean muscle mass, which helps re-shape your body!

I can't even imagine trying to eat 2235 calories unless I just ate constantly all day and ate crap food. Or a lot of almonds I really like almonds and usually only eat 10 at a time because of calories. But it also looks like I have been WAY under eating if this all calculates right. Hadn't planned on doing weight training.

Thanks for all of your help with this Connie.

I don't think 2235 calories a day is too much ... and if you eat crap food you will be surprised that your calorie intake may go over 3000 ... we usually tend to underestimate how much we eat in terms of calories ...

If you plan your meals well i am sure 2235 calories won't be that much ...

Best of luck to you

@ Lonasue: It is up to you to eat good fats, and good calories. I don't eat much junk food.....non-gmo potato chips, and ice cream for me. I do nuts, granola, whole raw milk, fruits, veggies, meat, eggs, CHEESE!!. And I just cut down to 2500 from 2800. While it is an adjustment, it can be done wisely! I have to have breakfast now....especially on days I work out: I do a green shake, and an organic peanut butter and fruit spread on good bread with a glass of whole raw organic milk. Plus my daily green shake. It's really up to you! Why invest in just losing weight when you can invest in a better, amazing healthier you??

@22sep2013--Post all your stats. Either you have very little to lose--which I suspect, or your missing a number somewhere. Not sure which....and Heybale's will probably be along to help you adjust!

Wait to see the replies. I have some of the same kind of questions.

Unfortunately this sheet isn't working for me at all ... no matter how many times i alter the activity level my TDEE stays nearly the same ... my real activity level is as follows:
90 minutes of lifting / 45 min twice a week
160 minutes fast walking / 55 minutes three times a week

here my TDEE is 1958

so for experiment sake i went ahead and altered my activity level to this:

5 days a week of strength training / one hour each (this means 5 hours of strength training/ lifting a week)
2 Days a week of high cardio / 2 hours each (4 hours of high cardio a week)

what is the TDEE i got? 2030 ! which is only 72 calories difference ... how is that possible?

on other calculators like scooby's my (after altering the activity level) TDEE was 2762 ...i think this is a huge difference ...
i also got a TDEE of 2800 on fatsecrets.com calculator

later on i made several changes to my activity levels and my TDEE stayed nearly the same

am i doing anything wrong? is activity level so irrelevant?

Sorry I missed this.
90 min lifting, 160 min med cardio - activity factor 1.37 x BMR

300 min lifting, 240 min high cardio - activity factor 1.69 x BMR

Ya, your copy is messed up for some reason. I had someone on another thread use the Excel conversion, and it was messed up copy.
So you might download again.
If this is the Google spreadsheet, I've had times where it didn't update correctly until I deleted entries I just changed. Very strange.

Without having the BF% stat, so no Katch BMR as foundation, using Mifflin the TDEE is 1909.
So I'm betting the 1954 was using Katch BMR, and is the more correct one.

Why would that TDEE be so different than the websites?
Is 1 hr of walking the same calorie burn as running, or as lifting? No.
Also, with 4 hrs you probably selected Moderately Active 3-5 hrs right? But that's a range actually from half way between one level and the other.
I am concerned they are that far off though, what activity level did you pick, and what BMR did they use?

Also, I didn't include any increased daily activity from more than sedentary desk job as your 40 hr work week time.

Courage: Seeing that which you know you must do, sense the fear rising within you, doing it anyway! Go Courage!