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That's because your weight goes down so even at rest your daily needs are lower than they were before, you can still go a long way by just doing exercise you weren't doing before and keeping the same diet.
Also, 500 extra calories isn't that much if you're doing cardio intensive exercises, that's a 5 miles, jogging that's under an hour at a very conservative pace, walking that's two hours...