I'm trying to eat at a 20% defecit of my TDEE to drop some fat. If you figure your TDEE correctly you're more or less eating at maintenance as I understand it. If you want to drop weight, you have to eat less than your TDEE.

I think SIdeSteel and Sarah would want to look at your diary to see what your macros are set at before making a suggestion. In general you should be eating around 1700 calories which would put you at a 20% defecit.

The calories you eat are important just as the type of calories you eat are. When losing weight, you want to try to retain as much lean muscle as possible. In order to do this you need to eat quite a bit of protein. The rule of thumb is 1 gram of protein for 1lb of lean muscle. So by example, protein is consuming x amount of calories.

I beleive this is in the topics to read section but you want to set your macros for protein/carbs/fat. So x % of your caloires come from protein, x % from carbs, etc.

There's lots of great sticky topics in this group. I'd recommend you give those a read and then come back and ask for clarification on anything you don't understand. It can be confusing at first but eventually it starts to make sense.

hi my tdee is 2133 according to fitness frog, therefore im eating just under 1000 a day less than I need to maintain..but its hit and miss if I lose weight each week...am I eating to few calories?

If you want input as to your intake, please answer the questions from this thread: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/910257-the-new-and-improved-asking-questions-about-your-intake