Trying to accurately calculate caloric burn
I'm 35/m, 5'11" and my current weight is 195. I started at 220, and MyFitnessPal calculated that I should eat ~1650 calories/day to lose 2lbs/week.
For a 2nd reference, I used Samsung Health, which estimates that I burn ~2500 calories/day total when taking 20,000 steps, which seems a bit low.
I've hovered around that 1650 intake mark for 9 weeks, with a few cheat days where I'm over 2000. I use a food scale to measure my food so I know I'm not underestimating. Now I'm down 25 lbs in 9 weeks, averaging almost 3 lbs/week. It has been very consistently above 2.5/week.
My job is fairly sedentary and the majority of my exercise is just walking, which is supposedly built in to the Samsung Health calculation (which would have me eating 1500 calories to be at a 1000 calorie deficit).
I generally feel great, but I know 3lb/week isn't ideal. Now I'm just trying to figure out where the math is off.
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