upping calorie intake.

1370 seems low. I'm 5'3, 128 pounds and my daily calorie goal is 1740. I used to eat around 1300, but MFP has taught me differently. I'm not an expert, but this is the gist of what I've learned so far:

Put your stats into the website below to find out your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure), which is how many calories you need to MAINTAIN your weight. Minus ~20% from that number to get the number of calories to lose weight and that should be your calorie goal.

http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html

Like I said, I also ate ~1300 before and burned a lot of cals but I had very little energy and was always so tired and hungry with such few calories. I've found this method to be a lot better for me. From experience, I know increasing calorie intake by a couple hundred is intimidating, so I went from 1300, to 1500, to 1740 and now I am never going back haha. Hope this helps! Message me if you have any questions

If you check out the website, you can pick your level of weekly exercise. If you don't exercise much at all, a few times a week, most days of the week, etc, ... and then your TDEE is based on that. 300 cals a day sounds like a lot more than lifting burns haha. Also it's only about 3-4x a week. I also calculated my calorie goal when I was doing Insanity which was more cardio-based and then just stuck with it when I switched to lifting... just increased my protein intake.

I just calculated my TDEE. I exercise 6 days a week so according to the calculator I burn 2876cals. I wasn't even eating that many calories before my diet. The trouble with a TDEE calculator is you can't actually put in how you exercise, so how can it tell you how much you burn during exercise?