**34f 72kg 166cm (trying to get back to pre-corona weight of 62kg).**
i know fitbit isn’t the *b e s t* for calculating TDEE, but i wear one anyway to keep track of steps and give me a ballpark range for CICO. I posted this in CICO, but I’m hoping this community will give me a different angle. **My question is: do you think my deficit is big enough to lose weight? (see fitbit estimations below).**
**here’s what I’ve been doing for 3 weeks:**
1500 calories a day (i weigh everything, no added sugars, no refined carbs, less than 1 tsp of oil/butter per day). I work with a nutritionist and she says this is the minimum number they put people on except in rare circumstances (like person in in a wheelchair) because otherwise it is difficult to get in all the necessary nutrients.
resistance (bb/PL mix) 3-4 days a week spinning (peloton program) 3-4 days a week
10k-18k steps a day minimum (i live in a city…)
no booze
Lastly, all this did get me curious, *what is a normalish TDEE anyway*? According to [Energy requirements in nonobese men and women – NCBI](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3862460/), the mean for females (not obese) is 2266. Of course, I am not betting my life on my Fitbit numbers, but I don’t see any reason why my TDEE would be less than 2k considering that I do exercise and get plenty of walking in each day.
Let me know your 2 cents. I feel great eating 1500 calories a day and moving my body this much. I hope you can share your stories of weight loss on this amount with me!
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