So I went from 122.4 kg to 80-ish kg April - December last year. I'm relatively tall (191 cm) man so my maintenance calories are pretty high. In January I started eating an average of 2250 kcal per day, but with a twist. I ate 2000 kcal Sun-Fri and 3750 on Saturdays. The weird thing here is that after a couple of months I was down to 76 kg, meaning I was probably still eating at a small deficit. I did the math (using linear regression on my weight data which I tracked every day) and concluded that I needed to eat 200-250 kcal extra each day.
Now I eat 2250 kcal Sun-Fri and 4000 kcal on Saturdays, and I'm somehow still slowly losing weight (75.4 kg this Saturday, which is only 3.4 kg above the threshold for underweight at my height according to new BMI). TDEE calculators tell me that I only need 2250 kcal per day, are they known to be inaccurate for taller guys? Sure, I started working out a bit, but I don't think jogging for 8 minutes + strength training three times a week warrants a 250+ kcal increase of TDEE. I know this is very much a luxury problem and I'm very happy that I get to eat more, I'm just confused.
I have three potential theories to explain this:
1: I am used to overshooting my tracked calories after loosing so much weight. Maybe i overestimate the amount of oil I use for instance, or maybe i overestimate a lot on Saturdays when I eat massive amounts of food. (By the way, is 4000 kcal one day a week an unhealthy habit?)
2: I eat much more protein now (150 g a day) and some sources claim that protein has a lower net caloric value than 4/gram because the body uses energy to process it. This sounds pretty fake to me though, but who knows.
3: I walk an average of 6 k steps every day, could this at least partially explain it?'
My plan forward is to wait a couple more weeks and maybe increase my intake with about 100 kcal per day. I would increase it more but the Coronavirus situation has put Norway in lockdown meaning I'm not as active.
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