ignore the calories MFP suggests for you, it puts almost everyone on 1200 or 1300 calories no matter who you are and calories that low will be unsustainable for the majority of us.
if you walk 10k steps a day then in the TDEE calculator I would suggest putting ‘Moderately Active’ as your activity level, even if you are sedentary at a desk job all day. If this gives you 2010 as your maintence then you can lose weight at anything below 2010. To lose 1lb a week you would set your calories at 1510.
ETA: if you’re putting ‘sedentary’ into the TDEE calculator and it gives your maintenance calories as 1700 for example, if you then minus 500 to lose 1lb a week you will be on 1200 calories. Always ask yourself, is this less than my BMR? Your daily calorie intake should never fall below your BMR number. If it is then you’ve calculated wrong.
I wouldn’t focus so much on the calories your watch is telling you you’ve burnt as these can be quite inaccurate at times, as long as you have calculated your TDEE correctly and are eating below that maintenance number you will lose weight.
OK revisited tdde
Used 1st one on Google
Tddee calculator net.
Entered in age 40 female 5, 6 180lb.
Came up with maintainance calories based on me saying I'm moderately active.
2330 so if I was 500 below that be about 1800 a day
I don't think in sedentary I'm sahm small toddler 4 kids and 1 dog.
If I entered sedentary it would be 1804 which would put me on 1200 day lose weight.
Light exercise 2667 which I don't get as that's more than moderate?
Ideal weight 129 to 135lb.
Bmi is 29.01 so overweight
Anything 24.99 or below would be normal
So basically I need lose 40lb to not be overweight.
So far I lost 8lb as was 13 stone 5 now 12lb 11.
If mfp has me much lower
Also I been fairly active why am I not losing weight faster.
Husband still saying 1lb a week is lame.
1500 to 1800 cals very manageable for me.
Feeling frustrated