I'm 5'4 160 pound female with a waist of 33 inches and hips at 42. I tend to store fat at my belly area the most so my hips are all muscle and my waist is all fat. My original weight gain was due to my IUD and in the last year since IUD removal my waist has gone from around 40 inches to 33 (measurements taken in the morning before eating).
I want to lose weight but feel pretty helpless trying to calculate my caloric needs in the pandemic. I've struggled on both ends with eating way too little and eating too much to lose weight so I've kind of given up and just focused on eating what makes me feel good. My routine is to run about a mile in the morning 6 days a week and lift for about an hour in the evening 6 days a week. I also take my dog on a walk every day midday for about 20 minutes. Every few weeks I will have a day off and go hiking with friends on top of all this. I have 1 rest day where I sleep in and recover and I spend one day a week meal prepping for my household which can be between 4-8 hours on my feet in a fast paced environment cooking.
Otherwise I tend to have a relatively sedentary job as a computer programmer and student working and studying from home so in between all this I sit at a desk or curl up in bed and work on my computer. Naturally I eat around 2000 give or take calories but so far my progress has been hard to track because it seems to take the form of inches not pounds. I would like to lose a good 20-30 pounds but am unsure how much to eat to be in a deficit but not to be starving myself/not meeting my bodies nutritional needs. My hunger cues are still a little messed up too which makes it hard to tell. Because my life is a weird combination of sedentary and active it makes the calculations a little difficult in terms of online calculators because yes I'm very active in terms of my workout schedule but in between that I'm relatively inactive.
I need a general maintenance number of calories and bottom-line number of how low a deficit would be for me to be unhealthy.
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