Yup. Stick with Scooby for now as it gives you a good solid goal. Truly, this is an experiment as sometimes it's under, the same or over for different people. Definitely continue to head up - you will see weight fluctuations - they are normal. Think about a few things...glycogen stores will fill, you'll probably get more carbs/sodium and you may have fluxes in your hormones. All these things will cause 'weight' gain - but as we say...a big increase overnight is always water weight.

LOL! I don't know about brave...I was just hungry. LOL I've been dieting a long time and had to drop so low to get any scale movement. I was long overdue for a break. And honestly, the mental progress is worth every pound gained on the scale. I just feel relaxed. I know I'm not going back to obese. I know I'm not going to go on a diet again. I will eat a little less to get the rest of the 40 lbs off. I will take my time and take more scheduled breaks. It's all ok. Nothing to panic about. That peace is worth everything. Even if I was stuck at this weight (scale) forever....I'll be good. The changes in my body are huge. Recomping crew checking in!!!

Bodpod doesn't measure metabolism, it measures bodyfat %.

The report took your LBM and applied probably the Nelson RMR formula to it, maybe Katch or Cunningham, just depends on what they used at the time.

So that was calculated metabolism, sleeping or resting.

You can use the same thing on Scooby's site - look for Most Accurate link, select Katch BMR, and enter in LBM if you think you are about the same now as then.

The Polar activity tracker is probably pretty good at daily activity, those 23 hrs of the day - but I'll bet it's inflated for calorie burn - if based on HR - for those workouts.

Does it use HR for workouts or do you put on the HR strap?
Or do you manually log any of those workouts but no HR is used?

Because one way will inflate, one way is underestimated.

Outside of possible corrections - the tracker should be good start since it beats you guessing from 5 rough levels that don't even include daily non-exercise life in them.

Ditto's to above advice about reset, and recomp this whole time.

HRM calorie burn formula are only valid for use when doing steady-state aerobic exercise, same HR for 2-4 minutes.

Boot camp and Crossfit are no where near steady-state - so inflated HR readings.

So calorie burn is inflated for them when based on HR calc's.

The workouts are included in your daily activity - because it's part of your day.
They may separate the stats so you can view what occurred during the workout - they should or how else could you compare to see improvements.

I wouldn't bother wearing the HRM for those workouts, at least not for calorie burn purpose.
If using it to confirm you are getting the HR as high as normal - sure.

The step-based burn you got today is probably higher because it thought you took a lot of serious steps, more than the activity really burned.

Normal lifting is underestimated by steps. You do 10 squats and it sees maybe 2 steps in 45 seconds - that is slow pace and low calorie burn from the looks of those 2 stats only - but obviously you burned more than that doing squats with serious weight.

What was your workout today?

If either of those workouts has rests of around 1 min or tad less, and reps of 15 or more - I'd suggest manually logging that on Polar's site as Circuit training, and take their estimate of calorie burn.

Uncorrected, what does your daily average burn look like on a weekly basis from Polar?
And how much time in total are you doing these workouts in a week, don't count running, that's best estimate already.

Depends on what helps best with your planning, since planning and preparation help with success.
Can you really adjust your eating daily to match what you burn that day, exercise included, so a dynamic eating goal?
Or would you rather have a static goal so it's easy to plan on the same number each and every day?

Your TDEE estimate, either from rough 5 level guess or Polar weekly review averaged out (not just rest days), is really just balancing each day by getting an average from weekly total.
So some days you are really eating below that average TDEE, but that is balanced by days you really are eating over that average TDEE. But if you have average workout schedule and picked the TDEE level correctly (or using Polar), then that difference would never be that great to matter.
After all, 1 day of 700 cal workout over 7 days is only an increase of 100 calories per day.

That's why I suggested it would probably be better to correct the Polar for what exercise is needed - and then view it's average calorie burn with all exercise included.

I do notice though, your non-exercise day burn 1635 / 1350 BMR = 1.21 activity factor, so indeed close to Sedentary (1.20) on those charts if you did no exercise.
But that's not useful because you do exercise.

So you don't need to calculate average burn for your workouts, unless just curious - it's not going to be used in the math anywhere.
The fact you don't start the workout to include the warmup rowing or such doesn't matter - because it's still in your daily stats anyway, just inaccurate since rowing usually has no steps to it to calculate a calorie burn. If wearing your HRM strap, I'd turn on at start of workout to include all those things. You aren't doing any one thing long enough that the misuse of HRM for calorie burn matters much.
If you did 3 x 60 min straight lifting weekly, then yes, using HRM would not be good for calorie burn, it would be inflated and that's long enough to matter.
For what you do, doesn't matter, because there are other things there it's underestimating for.


Oh, feeling hungry that fast.
Usually has to do with blood sugar levels.
Reason some people can have a meal high in carbs or eat the carbs first, and within 2 hrs feeling more hungry then they should for just having eaten a meal. The spike of insulin caused low blood sugar, felt hungry, liver just not getting a chance to release some more glucose in to blood yet or insulin not dropped yet to allow that to happen.
Similar effect to workouts before eating if that's what happened.
Lowish blood sugar in morning anyway, and liver is likely getting low too.
Jump in to intense workout that is mainly carb burning, and before the muscles start using their own supply of glucose the blood it used for it's supply, causing low blood sugar, and with liver not having much to replenish with, feel hungry.
Then the workout produces lactic acid which can be used as energy source for brain and raise blood sugar levels, or liver did have enough to replenish just took a bit.

And I'd suggest now that eating more, you could easily be making those workouts even harder than they were before - burning up more of the limited carbs you got - especially in the morning fasted state.

With tummy issues and early workout - may not be good to attempt eating before workout - so may look at having a good sized 200-300 cal snack right before bed if you don't already.

The carbs your liver has available in the morning starts with last big meal that topped them off - and how active between that meal and workout.
If 6 pm dinner and decently active before bed, may be burning enough of those off to cause issues by morning.

If you seem to get through the workout strong enough (which could be hard to compare if nothing to compare to) then may not matter.

At least a week at a time I'd suggest.

For women it's hard to discern anything anyway since BMR literally changes through the month, so it really takes that long to have good figures to, figure something from.

Pick the right 2 weeks, might get something useful there too.

Time spans of less than a week, and weight changes less than the accuracy of the scale (10 ozs may be alright, as it may be accurate to 0.2 lbs or 3.2 ozs, but unlikely), probably won't be useful.

Suggest if you do miss a workout that was planned and included in your TDEE estimate - skip 100 calories that day.
If you make it up - eat 100 extra that day.

If you add a totally new workout session that is not included in TDEE, eat back those calories.

If you notice - they are more specific than days, which is really about useless.

Is 4 days of crossfit 1.5 hrs each the same as 4 days walking 45 min each? of course not.
And of course 3 is not the same as 5.

They ask for hours. Then again, hours is improvement but still - is 1 hr running the same as 1 hr walking as 1 hr crossfit as 1 hr lifting? of course not.
At least 3-5 hrs is not a huge difference usually, but it could be depending on intensity of workout.

So that change would be a difference in average TDEE
But perhaps not much, same amount of time, different activity, maybe 100-200 less per workout. 400 less per week maybe, or 57 cal / day.

If you want to start with better first estimate, I'd recommend the spreadsheet in my profile call Just TDEE please.
Copy it to your own Google Drive space, and fill in your stats and expected workout times. Crossfit would be high cardio, except for whatever time is given to the WOD as lifting.

Well, that's the first spreadsheet actually - it's the 2nd one that say "Just TDEE Please".

But, you might like the Progress tab and BodyFat Calc in the one you got though. And it uses the BF% to get better BMR estimate. So that can make a difference too.

Most the info was your own stats though, right?
That's always good to have, measurements. Only thing extra was daily activity calc, and your workouts not too bad it appears to estimate with 5 per week.

You do have a 45 hr week standing job or minor movement type job, or at least referring to on your feet most the day with kids and house work?
If kids and then Sat & Sun count too - that's good estimate.

Then that is indeed good TDEE estimate, and notice that your activity factor is indeed 1.56, compared to the TDEE charts Moderate which is 1.55.
Sometimes a person does hit the average the TDEE level is based on. But your activity level may indeed change if you change workouts enough.
And if weight drops while LBM stays the same, TDEE won't drop that much actually.

And indeed then - TDEE almost 2000 right now - I'd call it that.

Keep track on the Progress tab of measurements and weight. Always good to see movement there. Monthly perhaps, or biweekly at most.
Use the far right on Progress tab after reset to track TDEE based on actual monthly results. Just need accurate food logging.

Ok, so my comments about the 45 hrs is because I notice you filled in 45 hrs weekly of service trade type job in the activity calc.

But that doesn't apply then, so you need to remove that, and you'll have a better TDEE estimate.

Did you remove the check mark in the options for daily activity so that it was set to sedentary?
The top checkmark is basically Lightly Active, so the same as a standing/slow moving job, around the same as 45 hrs you had in the first spreadsheet. Since sedentary, you want no checkmarks.

Then the difference is because the big spreadsheet uses BF% to get a more accurate BMR, but Just TDEE please uses Mifflin like MFP and Fitbit do.

Very much too early. You need to consistently eat at a range for at least a month. As you have stepped up and the numbers went up quickly versus slowly, it's water weight not weight gain.