Are my calories appropriate for weight loss?

Eat more. You're under fueling your body.

You should not be consuming under 1200 net calories, so you need at least 1200 calories of food, plus you need to eat back your exercise calories.

To lose 17 pounds, I suggest adjusting to a 1 lb./week weight loss goal on MFP and eating back your exercise calories. However, "saggy body parts" can also be fixed with exercise, not losing more weight.

Figure out what your BMR (Base Metabolic Rate) is. This is how much you burn daily if you were to be completely sedentary. You definitely need to not be eating under your BMR.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator

And then eat back your exercise calories. If you struggle with that, then eat back half your exercise calories instead.

Yea, never eat below bmr net (so if you burn 100 then it would be 1391) to help ensure you do not lose muscle or metabolism.

.Eat more, eat smarter. And for heavens sake stop weighing yourself so often. You're making yourself nuts with that!

You have gotten some really great advice so far. If your calorie logging is correct, you are definitely not eating enough on most days. Because you don't have much to lose, you should only be trying to lose 0.5 to 1 pound per week. You can plug in your stats on MFP, along with a weight loss goal of no more than 1 pound per week, and it will give you a base calorie goal. But this goal is with no exercise, so you should be eating your exercise calories back.

There are two important things to consider. First, make sure you are measuring your food, preferably with a scale if possible, and accurately logging everything. Second, make sure you are not overestimating exercise burns. Some people eat back only 75-80% of their exercise calories since it is easy to overestimate burns.

But by all means, please eat more. Since you have been eating lower calories for awhile, you may notice a small gain initially, but this should stabilize and start going back down. And you may not notice it at all. But give it time. Try it for a few weeks, and then re-evaluate. If you are still losing weight too quickly, then raise calories a little more, and vice versa. Everyone is different, but when I was actively losing weight and exercising 4-5 days a week, I could lose on 1500 to 1700 calories a day. You just have to find your level, and sometimes it takes a little trial and error.

As far as saggy parts, it may be time to start thinking about strength training. Many women on here have found success with lifting weights.

Good luck! I'm getting ready to start back up as well. I've been kind of off the radar for a while.

There is a significant difference between what you may look like - e.g. body composition and the numbers on a scale. I know a number of people on MFP that would say they "weigh" more than they expected, but look better than they anticipated as well because of resistance training.

Remarkably, you have received some generally good advice above (often absent from forums ) do eat a bit more but DO start resistance training. You can start with light weights, or there are a lot of exercises that you can do with body weight depending on where you have to work out. But don't just do "cardio" - you need to now work on building muscle (no, you wont "bulk up" - really).

Best of luck

.Eat more, eat smarter. And for heavens sake stop weighing yourself so often. You're making yourself nuts with that!

I agree with what everyone is saying...you're not eating enough. Also try to add in some weight training, as this will help tone up those saggy parts. As for the weighing in, try once per week...I'm guilty of the daily weighing too, and I'm committed to only weighing myself weekly from now on!