How much weight do you put into BMR and TDEE?

The numbers you get from MFP and other calculators are rough averages based upon your height, weight, age, etc. Your own TDEE can be significantly lower or higher than those numbers, but they are a good starting point for people... but people need to learn to adjust their cals based upon how their body responds to the cals they're eating. Personally, my own maintenance TDEE is roughly 500 or 600 cals less than what calculators give me.. but I have thyroid issues that I'm still addressing.

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you will have to be consistant with the diet. (trying) to eat healthy, and not eat (as much) junk wont do it. You have to be consistant, weigh yoyr foos, throw out all the junk, and get right.

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Poor wording on my part. I've actually realized very quickly that the scale I have now is a piece of crap and will be upgrading shortly. It does the job, but you have to fidget with it way too much to get it to work right.

My wife is killing me though, and really putting me to the test. She bought a bunch of easter candy last week and put it on the damn table in front of me. It's taken everything in me not to eat that crap.

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Sometimes that's fine...other days, I almost have this constant (slight) hunger.

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Do you change up what you eat every day? The way I think about it is that your body craves nutrients, so even if you feed it, if you don't give your body the nutrients it craves, it will still be hungry for the nutrients (this may or may not be backed up by science, but it helps me make better choices). Usually when I eat more nutritious foods (meats, some veggies, a little bit of fruit, a little bit of whole grains), I am way less hungry. I am a snacker/grazer, so this mindset has helped me a lot. In the unhealthy days, I would snack throughout the day but would never quite feel satisfied.

Also your water consumption could affect this. I'm always more hungry when I drink less water, and vice versa.

I just got back into the health kick as well. Good luck!

PS: I've been eating two eggs in the AM with a carb like a cup of oatmeal with fruit, then work out midday, then eat protein right after the workout. It seems to work for me.

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Do you change up what you eat every day?

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Yep, but always pretty nutritious. Fruit smoothies, steel cut oats, whole grain or wheat bread, meats, veggies, fruit. But it's the days where I start with more protein at breakfast and less carbs that seem to kick my arse. It's like I'm always at a deficit on those days, even if I'm getting the calories I need. I've figured out, like you, that I need something like oatmeal in the mornings. I just need that thing that will "stick" and hold me up longer.

I've gone back to the way I was in high school and college, basically eating "all the time" as my friends would say. Really, I eat 3 good meals, but typically have a snack in the morning and in the afternoon (sometimes two if I do my workout or run in the evening). Usually that is some mixed nuts, fruit, yogurt, a smoothie, etc.

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Also your water consumption could affect this. I'm always more hungry when I drink less water, and vice versa.

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This I'm pretty good about. I normally have 17 ounces down before I leave for work at 6, then have at least another one down by lunch. Drink one with lunch, then another in the afternoon. Then typically one more with dinner. On workout days, or when I'm working outside, I drink another 1 or two.

So on a typical day, I'm getting around 85 oz; more on a really active, day outside.

I’m the same size as you and am currently at around 1500 calories too. I don’t do much cardio though. Right now I’m eating about a pound of lean meat, a head of broccoli, a couple potatoes/brown rice and two scoops of protein powder a day. I’m rarely hungry besides before my first meal.

ETA: if you’re losing 1-1.5 lbs a week you are doing good.

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Yep, but always pretty nutritious. Fruit smoothies, steel cut oats, whole grain or wheat bread, meats, veggies, fruit. But it's the days where I start with more protein at breakfast and less carbs that seem to kick my arse. It's like I'm always at a deficit on those days, even if I'm getting the calories I need. I've figured out, like you, that I need something like oatmeal in the mornings. I just need that thing that will "stick" and hold me up longer.

I've gone back to the way I was in high school and college, basically eating "all the time" as my friends would say. Really, I eat 3 good meals, but typically have a snack in the morning and in the afternoon (sometimes two if I do my workout or run in the evening). Usually that is some mixed nuts, fruit, yogurt, a smoothie, etc.

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You're not eating as healthy as you think. If you're eating store bought oatmeal, yogurt, things of that nature you're probably eating a lot of sugar and preservatives.

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if you’re losing 1-1.5 lbs a week you are doing good.

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I'm sure that will slow down eventually, but I've been happy with it.

I think a lot of it has to do with reducing how much I was eating. Plus, once I start putting on some muscle mass, I'm certain that will reduce the amount I'm losing each week as well.

Once I hit the mid to lower 150s, I'll probably up my intake some as well to slow it down, but only enough to where I'm more or less burning off the extra but no more.

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Not aure how healthy you think I think I'm eating, but when my old routine involved eating fast food at least twice a week, a lot of fried food and candy/sweets (with way more sugar than I get now), and a lot more processes grains and a lot less vegetables and fruit than I eat now, yeah, I'm eating a lot healthier than I was.

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I'm not knocking you, just letting you know. When I really started focusing on diet I was surprised at the sugar in a lot of the "healthy" snacks prepackaged from grocery stores.

I think it's good to be knowledgeable about fruit sugars. Berries are some of the best bang for your buck in terms of amount of carbs for fruit if you want a snack.

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Yesterday, according to my "MFP diary" I had 137 g of sugar.

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Damn.