Correct calorie allowance?

That's actually not unreasonable, depending how quickly you would like to lose weight and how much you exercise.

Eggs, vegetables, and fruit are essential staples when on a calorie count that low. If you eat right, you can make it work, without feeling hungry.

My current recommended calorie count for my goals is 1440 and I exercised, which gave me a couple hundred extra calories credit, if I had wanted to use them for food, but I only ate 1222 calories today.

Exercise is another important point. MyFitnessPal does not count calories lost by exercising until you have actually exercised, so once you log exercise time, you are given additional calories to eat that day, to "eat back" those calories lost. If you told the site, that you plan on exercising daily, then they would give you a lower calorie count, with the expectation that you will be given further calories as you log exercise throughout the day.

Good luck!

Find your BMI, and go under it by 200-400 calories.

Sorry, what? Body Mass Index is not measured by calories. I am thinking you mean BMR but that is also not correct.

OP, ideally you would find your Total Daily Energy Expenditure, or TDEE (you can use a calculator like this one: http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html) and then set your calorie goal as 80% of the total number of calories you burn every day.

I would recommend reading these:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819925-the-basics-don-t-complicate-it

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

Good luck!

MyFitnessPal does not count calories lost by exercising until you have actually exercised, so once you log exercise time, you are given additional calories to eat that day, to "eat back" those calories lost.
If you told the site, that you plan on exercising daily, then they would give you a lower calorie count, with the expectation that you will be given further calories as you log exercise throughout the day.

Is that right?
I thought it gave you the same calories whatever you told it because you add the exercise yourself daily and the calories you can get from that are extra? (What you put in the first sentence)
What if you didn't do the exercise you had told it on setup you were going to do.......your calorie goal wouldn't be sufficient would it?

MyFitnessPal does not count calories lost by exercising until you have actually exercised, so once you log exercise time, you are given additional calories to eat that day, to "eat back" those calories lost.
If you told the site, that you plan on exercising daily, then they would give you a lower calorie count, with the expectation that you will be given further calories as you log exercise throughout the day.

Is that right?
I thought it gave you the same calories whatever you told it because you add the exercise yourself daily and the calories you can get from that are extra? (What you put in the first sentence)
What if you didn't do the exercise you had told it on setup you were going to do.......your calorie goal wouldn't be sufficient would it?

People always assume that people use the 'sedentary' setting.

I use the 'active' setting, because I have already calculated my TDEE, and the active setting is the closest, and then I don't have to log exercise.