How I lost 20kg in 6 months and where to go from here?

Hi All,

I'm new to this subreddit, however, thought this was the best place to post something like this. Feb 2020 I started my journey into weight loss. I'm 5'6 male who weighed in around 87 kg (191 pounds), I was unmotivated, unhappy and overall in bad health. In fact I think it was an article that was posted here in which my fitness journey began - https://physiqonomics.com/fat-loss/

I began following the advice in this article, setting up an account on my fitness pal tracking my macros and daily calorie intake. I believe at the time i started on around 1900 calories with very minimal fats and higher carbs. Essentially, I cut out all the bad stuff, no more soda, no more pizza and McDonalds. I stuck to a strict diet which was varied with pasta, rices, meats and of course tuna as well as protein shakes. I began training 3 days a week, weight training + 20 mins of cardio each session, nothing to strenuous. However, I noticed immediate results, the weight began to drop off... at some parts I lost hope as my weight didn't move for a few weeks, however, it eventually came down with persistence.

Fast forward to August 2020 I was down 20kg, I started at 87kg and ended up on 67kg (149 pounds). However, I still count my macros and my calories. Still following the same article I was eating around 1490 calories a day at 67kg

Carbs - around 100g

Fats - around 70g

Protein - around 150g

I didn't always meet those goals, however, I was always below those macros and only really focused on meeting my protein.

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Now I'm at a point where I wish to maintain my weight, unfortunately due to being in Australia and on lockdown the gyms are closed, therefore, my exercise is limited to push ups and walking. However, I wanted to learn how to maintain my weight as I noticed it was still coming down at around 66kg (145 pounds).

I found several posts on this subreddit about maintaining weight and using this website to calculate TDEE - https://tdeecalculator.net

Inputing my data it came with 1880 calories in order to maintain and my macros to be

Protein - 137g

fat - 71g

Carbs - 161g

I'm almost worried that this is way more than I need to eat at my weight and I'm scared that if I do eat up to 1880 calories I will begin to put on weight, especially eating 161g carbs. Does anyone have any advice around maintaining weight, or even learning to eat without fearing I'm eating to much?

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