I (F5'6", age 26) am currently at 145 lbs, down from 180 over the course of this year. When I began my journey in January, I had long been sedentary and so calculated my deficit with that in mind - which was at the time quite modest, I was eating 1500 cals with about 1880 maintenance.
My regular habits have changed a lot over this year and while at the beginning I was regularly meeting 10k daily steps I have averaged to about 6-7k daily which I'm happy with. For the last few weeks, I've also recently incorporated strength training twice a week (~1-hour full-body sessions) which I see myself managing to stick with. I realized I should likely increase my calorie intake so bumped up to 1600 for a couple weeks and still saw weight loss. Thinking I may want to take a temporary break from fat loss (would like to eventually be back to about 135 lbs to be in the middle BMI range for my height) to focus on muscle gain because I've been seeing more hair shed than usual which I know often means underfueling, and I don't want that.
Would you consider 6-7k daily steps and twice weekly strength training "lightly active"? My job is sedentary and I currently don't do any cardio other than walking. If you calculate using this parameter please fill me in about what your activity levels are like (and if you're my height would be curious what your maintenance cals are). A TDEE calculator is suggesting my maintenance at that level would be 1945 which seems so high, but that might be because I'm just so used to 1500-1600.
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