Anyone have to consume MORE than 1,200 calories a day?

I like food and feeling well so I try to keep the max at 2000 or just under and no lower than 1450 with or with out exercise and eat massive salads so I fill myself easily,not tiny amounts of food.

How do u work how much to eat to loose weight???

Mine says 1200...I try to eat around 1100 with 300 exercise

Surly 1200 is not putting me in danger as such...I'm a pretty large lady

I'm just wondering...seems like I see nothing but 1,200 my daily goal is 1,600 and thats if I DONT exercise...?

I think eating is good but I also think that using MFP the way it was designed is fine too. If I use TDEE-15% it works out to about the same as if I set my base at 1300 and eat my exercise calories.

I'm all for eating as much as you can to lose around a pound a week but I'm tired of these posts. They come up almost daily. I know I can choose not to read or comment but you have to understand that people have to learn proper nutrition in their own way. We are told to exercise more and eat less to lose weight and people sometimes take that to mean if less is good, than lesser is better. I'm not defending low calorie diets but sometimes it takes losing a bunch of weight and still being "fat" to realize you did something wrong. I also don't consider myself ignorant but I was fairly ignorant on the subject of weight loss until I ended up skinny fat.

My point is to just cut people some slack. Some are still learning and some don't care and you shouldn't either.

I consume 1200 cals in 1 meal.

I eat about 2100 daily

I'm trying to be more realistic for the long haul!

Pre-pregnancy I was losing on 2400kcal.

MFP figures just don't fit me at all, as their activity levels don't get even close to my reality (as judged by fitbit and logging for maintenance). I wish I had never tried 1200kcal + exercise because I lost way too quickly and it may have contributed to my becoming anaemic.

I eat pretty much 2-3000 a day. Ohfk being hungry. I can lose weight and be sated.

I can't. I'm ALWAYS hungry. If I do, I f up my metabolism, and I can't even function well. My muscles weaken and my concentration becomes *kitten*.
I don't even count calories at all, because it will just consume my mind like it has earlier in life. But it's surely 2K+ each day. I just make sure I mostly eat quite healthily and keep treats to a minimum, and I eat when I'm hungry, and stop when I'm full.
But I'm 6ft and blessed with a decent metabolism, I DIE on that little food.

I sometimes wish I only needed much smaller amounts, because it's too expensive to feed me, haha.

I HAVE to be at 1300 a day to lose. By that I mean if I don't exercise I eat 1300, if I burn 200 cals I eat 1500.

1200 makes it more efficient for me. But if I get less than a 500 cal deficit a day, I don't lose at all.

Sounds like the body's "starvation prevention" mechanism trying to kick in, when you hit that specific 500 deficit. Good you recognize that; many people dont and get frustrated with low/no weight loss.

I followed MFP for 4.5 months then switched to TDEE-25%, which puts me around 1850 calories a day, counting exercise (5 hours a week or so). I haven't been eating that much consistently though. MFP goal is now 1360 plus exercise calories or something, which I guess is closer to what I've been eating most days.

I'm honestly not sure where people are getting 1200 in the first place.

I eat 1700 to 2300 a day. Depending on hunger.

I eat a straight 1600 calories every day whether I exercise or not

you're looking at sedentary women dialling in a 2 lb/week weight loss aspiration. The recommended default 1 lb/week would be a better idea.

I have mine set to #1/week working out 6 days a week for 30 minutes a day and Active - and it gives me 1260. I eat back my exercise calories (Usually 300-400), but I try to get 1700. My calories if I was to maintain is about 2252 - so even taking 500 for #1 a week is 1752, much higher than what MFP gives me

I eat 2000ish cals on workout days and 1700-1800 on rest days. And I'm 40. I love muscle! lol