Judge my day :)

I think your day looks good!

My husband suggested that I change my macros and try to eat 40% carbs, 30% protein, and 30% fat because I was eating close to 70% carbs everyday and was always feeling hungry. When I eat less carbs and more protein I feel more satisfied with less calories.

Overall, your food choices seem healthy. Your sodium is a little high, but I have that problem too. It's hard to keep sodium under 2300 mg a day. It's in practically everything - there's 400 mg of sodium in a 1/2 cup of low fat cottage cheese! Try to go fresh vs. packaged, and stay away from processed meats and cheeses which have TONS of sodium.

I think it looks pretty good, too. You usually do well on your water intake-good job on that. Easy switches might be to incorporate greek yogurt into your day for more protein, or switch the Fiber One bars to Fiber One Protein (caramel nut are delicious!) Sodium gets me sometimes, too...It helps to pre-log and then change things around if you're way over.

I think it looks pretty good! I dont go by carbs, sugar etc...

Protein is a bit light.. fats are really light and a lot of carbs... Calories don't look too bad though.

Ok so my BMR is 1428 and my TDEE is 1496 and I average about 500 calories a day burned off from exercising. Should I eat those 500 back or just stick to my goal being 1450 and then net around 950?

I think you have a typo, there is no way that your TDEE is only 70 calories higher.. Even if you were completely sedentary, your TDEE would be

1428 * 1.2 = 1728

Add in exercise and your TDEE will go up by that number. From that number you create a deficit to get your caloric needs total.

Hi beatlegirl, I did calculate both and they came up with in the range of 1400-1500 (I can't remember the BMR off the top of my head but I think it was closer to 1400). But I'm a little confused about that, everyone keeps saying you want to eat back your calories so should bye goal be the 1400-1500 after exercising or before?

Hi! I went to IIFYM.com, I entered your stats. I used the Mifflin-St Jeor formula. I also said that you workout 5 times a week (if you workout more or just want to test out different numbers, I encourage you to do so). BMR is the minimum you should be eating if you don't workout. This number is about 1358. Your TDEE came to 1986. With not so much to lose, I would start you off at TDEE-10% which is about 1787 as a daily goal. With this method you do NOT enter your workouts since we've already taken them into account. Edit: I do enter my workouts but I manually change the calorie burn to 1. This way, I can keep track of my workouts.

My recommendations:
Daily calorie goal = 1787
Do NOT enter workout calories in MFP
Aim to eat at least 110g of protein and 50g of fat per day. (change macro percentages to at least 50/25/25 carb/protein/fat, once hitting these goals gets easier, then try 40/30/30 c/p/f
Find a lifting program if you want to maximize fat loss and minimize muscle loss.
Drink plenty of water and get plenty of sleep.
Enjoy treats within your limits and don't restrict whole fod groups if you have no medical reason to do so.

**Please note that all of this is simply an estimation. No one can really know with 0% of error the EXACT amount of calories they are burning and eating. The best thing you can do is use this as a starting point. Record your fod accurately and see what happens. The trick is to weigh yourself only once a week at the same time and on the same day (weight fluctuates daily and can skew results, especially since you don't have much to lose). track your progress over 6-8 weeks and see what happens. if you're not losing, do TDEE-15%. If you're losing to much, do TDEE-5% or a body recomp (eat at maintenance, lift heavy, lose bf%, show off your muscles).