Am I eating enough?

MAS91578

I know there are many posts on here about this but I am struggling currently to get the weight off. I am currently 173.8lbs. I would like to get down to 150. I have been exercising 6 or 7 days a week. Cardio almost every day with running(2 miles) and 3 times a week weight lifting for 4 weeks and have only seen a 4.6lb loss. I am having trouble figuring out how many calories to eat. I was told by a friend that I should be eating 2000 calories a day, I have been eating between 1200 and 1700 a day. Is this not enough? I am afraid I will start to gain if I eat more.

SideSteel

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets


Note: The above assumes you are actually weighing and measuring your food intake via food scale/etc and actually eating the amount of calories you think you are eating, which most people don't. And this complicates things because when someone says on the internet "I'm eating 1300 calories" and then 6 people reply with "OMG YOU NEED TO EAT MORE STARVATION MODE" they aren't considering that those 1300 calories without a food scale could really be 1900 calories.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/872212-you-re-probably-eating-more-than-you-think