how much cals should i be burning? PLEASE HELP!

You are overexercising for what you eat.. your definitely not eating enough if your going to do cardio twice a day.. aim for 1800 if your doing that twice a day. Read up on BMR, TDEE and all that goodness.

You don't have to burn anything...your weight loss calorie deficit is built into your diet. When you exercise, you're supposed to eat back those calories with MFP, as MFP is a NEAT method calculator and exercise should not be included in your activity level setup. You are currently over-training for the amount you eat.

Use your diet for weight control; exercise for fitness.

1470 calories a day at rest, add 20% for a sedentary occupation = 1760. Add 300 for extra calories expended in cardio (above the 73 per hour already accounted for) = 2060 calories used per day, give or take 10%.

A 20% deficit is 400 calories, so eating 1600 a day should give a sustained weight loss approaching 1 lb/week. In the early weeks you can probably eat a bit less and lose a bit faster, as you are now.

1800? do you think it varies for males and females? i do about an hour a day in total for cadrio, abs, obliques combined. i want to lose weight for right now then focus on strenght and muscle later.

It's all about the math. Weight loss is about calorie deficit. MFP calculates your calorie deficit for you if you did no exercise at all. If you just ate that amount of calories and went about your daily life without working out, you would lose weight. When you do exercise you need to add extra fuel. You need to eat at lease SOME of your exercise calories (I say some because a lot of people say that MFP estimates for burn are high).

well i never eat back all of the calories i burn from excercise. i get a little obsessed with the scale and i know i shouldnt lol. ive only been doing this 6 days but i get a little obsessive. i should probably calm down. i just want to know ifim doing it the correct way bc i see so many different answers on calorie intake and excercise. so if i eat 1300 should i burn atleast 500 cals?

NO!!!!!!!

1300 LESS 500 = 800

800 calories is below your BMR (basal metabolic rate) .....You heart, lungs, kidneys, (and more) use more calories than that everyday. Your body while catobolize existing muscle mass (for fuel) because your heart, your lung function is important for survival.

TDEE stands for Total Daily Energy Expenditure. It's the number of calories your body burns in a day, and also the number of calories you'd need to eat to maintain your current weight.

BMR is your Basal Metabolic Rate. It's roughly the number of calories your body would burn in a coma keeping all of your organs alive.

A good rule of thumb is to eat more than your BMR and less than your TDEE. About 20% less than TDEE is what's usually recommended.

my TDEE days 2402 cal/day

BMF says 1513.25

what does this mean?

If you calculated your TDEE correctly (would include your exercise) then that is your Total Daily Energy Expenditure...this is the total energy (calories) that your body burns in a day.

BMF I am assuming is actually BMR = Basal Metabolic Rate. This is what your body burns calorie wise just breathing, pumping your heart, etc. This is the number of calories your body burn just being alive, even if you were in a coma and did nothing else.

I'm not going to go into the whole starvation mode **** because it's been beaten to death and is widely misunderstood...but really, what this means is that you can net a whole lot more than the 800 calories you're netting now and still lose weight in a safe and healthy manner.

Essentially, you could gross around 1,900 calories and lose about 1 Lb per week. Gross around 1,650 calories and lose 1.5 Lbs per week. If this is accurate, it wouldn't appear that you should go any faster than that to avoid going below your BMR. Eating below your BMR really isn't healthy and is completely unnecessary.