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Help with my stats and what I'm doing

Linh_x
Posts: 3
Hi there! I'm sort of a noob with calculating this stuff so I'd much appreciate advice on what I should be doing.
1) myfitnesspal says I should be eating about 1400 calories a day, to be honest I'm starving with this little calories so I upped it to 1500 calories. I often overeat this much depending where I'm working but I usually net it back down to this amount.
2) I'm a uni student and I endeavour taking public transport most days, I work in a lunch bar and I also work as a waitress. I think I'm somewhat sedentary.
3) I'm 5"3 (162 cm), weigh 128 lbs (58 kg) and last time I estimated my body fat at around 27%.
4) I play beach indoor volleyball once a week, go to Pump class about 2-3x a week (a cardio version of strength with barbells) and do mixed miscellaneous exercise (interval walk/sprint on treadmill, stairmaster, rowing, flies, squats, deadlifts) about 2-3x a week.
So far I haven't lost any weight but I have gotten a tad bit smaller in places here and there. My diet at the moment is all over the place as I'm transitioning back into uni and work life balance. What should I be doing to improve my fat loss goals? My aim is to decrease my body fat %. Should I decrease my calorie intake? Or change my mix in exercise? Or improve my diet but not my calories (I can only eat so much tuna and cottage cheese)?
1) myfitnesspal says I should be eating about 1400 calories a day, to be honest I'm starving with this little calories so I upped it to 1500 calories. I often overeat this much depending where I'm working but I usually net it back down to this amount.
2) I'm a uni student and I endeavour taking public transport most days, I work in a lunch bar and I also work as a waitress. I think I'm somewhat sedentary.
3) I'm 5"3 (162 cm), weigh 128 lbs (58 kg) and last time I estimated my body fat at around 27%.
4) I play beach indoor volleyball once a week, go to Pump class about 2-3x a week (a cardio version of strength with barbells) and do mixed miscellaneous exercise (interval walk/sprint on treadmill, stairmaster, rowing, flies, squats, deadlifts) about 2-3x a week.
So far I haven't lost any weight but I have gotten a tad bit smaller in places here and there. My diet at the moment is all over the place as I'm transitioning back into uni and work life balance. What should I be doing to improve my fat loss goals? My aim is to decrease my body fat %. Should I decrease my calorie intake? Or change my mix in exercise? Or improve my diet but not my calories (I can only eat so much tuna and cottage cheese)?
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