So I've been calorie counting a while and have always been aware of my TDEE and GW TDEE, but today I thought to look up just how much I was eating when I was at my highest weight, expecting it to blow my mind how high the number was and how much I would have had to have eaten.
My HW TDEE was only 300 calories higher than my GW TDEE! This stunned me. At 5' 5", assuming a sedentary lifestyle, I would maintain 170 at 1826 a day or maintain 115 at 1527 a day. That's FIFTY FIVE POUNDS of difference for the equivalent of a large chai latte every day. This really put into perspective for me 1) how small decisions every day REALLY add up and 2) just how easy it would be for me to spiral back up to my HW. Thankfully I don't have a sedentary lifestyle, so my GW TDEE will be more like 1900 - 2000, but I was also so surprised that at 5' 5" 1826 a day would put me well into the overweight category; clearly I'm not ready to graduate into intuitive eating.
Anyways I wanted to share incase this was as eye-opening for anyone else as it was for me!
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