5ft 2" Girls - what's your daily calorie intake?

It's going to be different for every 5'2 girl. Depends on how much they need to lose and their starting weight.

For me, my "goal" is set to 1530 calories. If I exercise, I eat those calories back, because my body needs it for fuel.

1200 Calories is the absolute BARE MINIMUM you should ever eat. If you continue to dip into the 800's like that... well... it won't be pretty. Try to eat your calorie goal consistently. Weigh/Measure every single thing that enters your body. Don't guess or eyeball it.

122-125 weight range and I eat between 1500-2000 depending on how hungry I am.

i'm 5'2.75" ;-) and to maintain my weight at 105 lbs I take in about 1600 calories per day. I also work out everyday, whether walking, running, weight lifting or other machines at the gym. I try to consume a large variety of foods and since I'm a vegetarian, I eat a lot of soy protein. Hope this helps!

I'm 14 5'2" 143.5 pounds and my calorie intake is around 2,600 because I'm really active with sports and stuff. Works for me and I still lose weight.

1200 on non active days up others 1357 but occasionally higher depending on how active ive been

5'2"...150 lbs...1200 cal/day...I eat back some of what I work off during exercise but not the full amount. I try not to eat under 1200 calories even when I don't workout.

I'm 5'3. I usually eat 1400-1800. I eat back some exercise calories. I try to net over 1200 and after that it depends on how hungry I am. When I net less than 1200 my work out the following day usually lacks energy and I lack willpower.

I am 5'2" as well, but the answer to your question is dependent on how much you exercise, how much weight you are trying to lose and how quickly you are trying to lose it. That is, it depends on the amount of energy you expend and how much of a caloric deficit you wish to maintain.

When I first started out I weighed 186.5 and I ate a static 1600 calories per day. That was my daily goal, give or take normal over/under fluctuations. I did not and do not eat back exercise calories, but rather try to aim for a particular deficit off of my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure). At that time I was sporadically exercising, walking less than thirty minutes a day. I lost weight at the average of one pound per week.

For the last few months I have been exercising a lot more than that, but also eating more, so I have been maintaining my losses, but not continuing to lose weight.

My current BMR (Mifflin St. Jeor calculation) is 1245 and MY "sedentary" TDEE is around 1750. Note that I capitalized "my" and put "sedentary" in quotations because that is the normal level of energy expenditure that I have from my normal day-to-day-living on days when I am not formally exercising. It might be considered "lightly active" to other folks. If I were not exercising at all, then I would aim to be eating around 1750 (to maintain my present weight of 145 lbs.). However, when I am exercising I factor in the weekly average amount of exercise into a weekly average TDEE, and then calculate a deficit of anywhere from 15% to 20% off of that.

I got down to 128lb through eating 1200 or less than went off the wagon and shot back up to 145lb.

I'm not trying to be mean, but It is not a mystery why you gained the weight back quickly. You went from eating at an extreme calorie deficit (of probably much greater than 25%) to likely eating at a calorie surplus that could have been as little as 25% or well above that. The greater the calorie surplus, the quicker the weight will come back.

It is good that you are trying to take a more steady and sensible approach to your weight loss now, with an aim to conserve your muscle mass.

I would encourage you to find out what your BMR and typical TDEE are. Try to choose a reasonable caloric deficit of twenty percent or less. You may lose weight more slowly than before, but you will also likely keep more of your muscle mass and you will also find that a smaller deficit is easier to maintain for the long period of time that it may take to lose the amount of weight that you want to lose.

Yes, you can lose weight by eating 1200 calories a day, but that level of deficit may leave you feeling deprived, hungry, and without enough energy to exercise. It is likely unsustainable in the long run.

Good luck with your weight loss.

Edited to add:
See my profile for more detailed statistics from my food diary. It shows the amount of weight I lost during each of my goal periods, as well as my average daily BMR and TDEE during those periods. I haven't updated it yet for the most recent goal period, but I will be doing that in the next few days.

I'm 5'3" so I might be out-of-bounds by answering but my target is 2,000. When I was losing weight I never went lower than 1.650, and I eat (and always did) all my exercise calories on top of that.

I'm about 5'3 and currently eating TDEE-20% which has me at 1831 calories a day. I work out 6x a week.

I'm 5'4" and my TDEE, before exercise, is 1560 calories. That's assuming that I'm lightly active. I eat back most of my exercise calories, so in actuality, I eat anywhere from 1560 to about 1900 calories on any given day.

I try to NET around 1300, sometimes a bit over or under. However, I exercise a lot so eat much more than that.

I'm 5'3", 145 lbs, trying to lose about 30. I use the TDEE method and eat 2300 per day (determined with my bodymedia stats). Not for everyone, but I have an active job and run a lot.

5ft 11/2 inches. I usually eat between 2000-2100 calories.