If after a months dieting you see no difference, e.g. no weight loss or gain you should increase or
decrease your calories slightly around couple hundred per day then recheck results.
Not exact matches
Also, imagine that you follow a good nutrition program consisting of about 40 % carbohydrates, 40 % protein and 20 % fat, and once a week, you consume a
slightly greater amount of food and more
calories (eg 2700 - 3000 kcal) than the other days of the week (which equals a cheat day) in order to prevent the
decrease of your metabolism.
You'd have to go down to 1000 - 1200
calories, ideally by
decreasing your fat intake to about 100 g and
slightly decreasing carbs and protein and stay at about 80 - 90 %
calories from fat.
Once you've determined your TDEE, you can always try increasing or
decreasing your daily
calorie count
slightly to see what works best for you.
As far as I know, American fat intake has been averaging about 80 grams per day since at least the 1970s, though it has
slightly decreased as a percentage of
calories basically due to an increase in consumption of junky carbs.