My TDEE is around 1800 and I lost about 6 pounds the first month I tried tracking calories again. Then I spent a month losing... half a pound. I was so frustrated because I was "eating at a deficit" but I realized that I was eating just a tiny bit more (1600 calories instead of 1350ish) and walking a little less.
I realized this morning that if it takes a 3500 calorie deficit to lose 1 pound, having a 200 calorie deficit per day means it'll take a little more than 17 days to lose a pound!! That really put things into perspective for me and helped me understand why I got so frustrated in the past and kept quitting.
I'm still working on how to do better with sticking to a bigger deficit so I can be motivated by success, but somehow I didn't think through the numbers in the past and correlate that with my slooooow progress.
Hopefully this helps someone else with a low TDEE 😉
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