The current pandemic and social isolation has resulted in me eating emotionally. I have been at home when not at work, and I bought pantry stable food I don't normally buy or have in the house (packaged cookies, crackers, tons of protein bars, etc.). Some of it is probably water weight, but I have went from 111 to 119 lbs in the past couple of weeks. I am a 5'4" 28 year old female. I have been maintaining my weight between 111 and 115 lbs for the past 8 or so months after losing 70 lbs last year. I need to get control of myself and not let the pandemic derail all of my efforts losing the weight.
What have you found to be the most accurate estimate of daiky calorie burn?
When using TDEEcalculator.net it says I burn 1506 calories per day if sedentary, 1,725 calories with light exercise (1-2 days a week), and 1,945 calories with moderate exercise (3-5 days a week).
When I use Myfitnesspal and set it to maintain my weight at lightly active it gives me 1,730 calories per day. For active it gives me 2,010 calories per day.
My Garmin watch (which tracks my steps/heart rate/exercise) has my resting calories around 1,528 calories per day (it changes slightly every day based on my weight) and adds "active" calories. For example, today I earned 353 active calories from just every day activities, running 3.5 miles, and weight lifting for 30 minutes to give me a total daily calorie burn of 1,881 calories.
My typical exercise is rock climbing 2 to 3 days a week (for 2.5 hours per session) and running 3 days a week (3-10 miles per run), but the pandemic has closed my rock climbing gym so I am adjusting my routine to running 3 or 4 days a weej (only on a treadmill, so I will probably adjust my long runs to 6 miles) and weight lifting in my home gym 3 or 4 days a week.
I don't want to undereat, but I also do want to lose this extra weight. I would love advice of where to set my daily calorie goal - and should I adjust the goal based off my exercise or should I pick a daily goal that just averages out to a slight deficit? Every estimate is giving me a different number, I would like to think Garmin would be the most accurate but I really don't know.
Thank you!
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