What have I done?! Help!

Sounds like a good plan. My only other piece of advise would be to give it at least 4 weeks to see where you're at before you try to adjust anything. The only exception being if you find yourself consistently out of energy and bonking on your workouts, then you would need to evaluate and decide if you're doing too aggressive of a calorie restriction.

Also, don't panic if you see the scale bounce up for a bit because of increasing your carbohydrate intake along with *possibly* increasing your calorie intake (that depends on if you were tracking accurately before). Both can cause glycogen to store in your muscles which leads to weight gain because of WATER retention (NOT fat!) but people panic when it happens.... It will even back out when your body adjusts to the new regimen (hence my advise to give it 4 weeks). The good news is, you may find that with the extra glycogen stored in your muscles that you have MORE power available for your workouts!

I've been tracking my cals and weighing much more detailed 5 days straight now! On to the weekend which will be my challenge.

I was excited to weigh myself this morning, but my bathroom scale was wonky - i stepped on it 3 times - 170#, 168.8#, 157#, ---- ok then I knew something was wrong! Changed the batteries and it said 172# ..... wtf! So whatever just ignoring that and will check it out again tomorrow morning!

I'm really enjoying eating things that were previously "unallowed" like some fruit for breakfast. Or I'm going to have an activia Yogurt this afternoon for a snack.

Anyone who has time to look at my diary and give me feedback - it would be much appreciated!!! TDEE average of 2200, I've been aiming for 1,700 cals and have been around there all week. According to my fitbit and MFP, here are my (calories burned) and calories eaten for the last 5 days:

(2200) / 1297 = net (903)
(2240) / 1531 = net (709)
(2193) / 1755 = net (438)
(2318) / 1803 = net (515)
(2019) / 1645 = net (374) = total net = (2,939) so less than 1 pound I understand.

If these are your stats, then you aren't eating enough. If you are supposed to have a 1700 calorie day, MFP assumes you had enough movement as you set your profile for lifestyle to (i.e. sedentary, light activity, moderate activity, etc.) and weight loss goal (i.e. 2lbs per week). If you worked out another and had another 500 calories for the day, your target is 2200 for the day (assuming 500 calories from working out is accurate). The original assigned calories should already reflect that 2 lbs. of weight loss (MFP auto calculates a 500 calorie deficit into your daily consumption) without the added exercise calories.

With a net of negative 900 or more calories, you are actually under your daily calories by 1400. You are starving yourself if these numbers are accurate. Start with an accurate profile of what you do throughout your day or TDEE - 20% like others on the forums suggest. This could be why your weight loss is stalling a little. Just a thought.

It might be that you have to get a more accurate calculator for your daily caloric goal and stick to it as closely as possible.

If these are your stats, then you aren't eating enough. If you are supposed to have a 1700 calorie day, MFP assumes you had enough movement as you set your profile for lifestyle to (i.e. sedentary, light activity, moderate activity, etc.) and weight loss goal (i.e. 2lbs per week). If you worked out another and had another 500 calories for the day, your target is 2200 for the day (assuming 500 calories from working out is accurate). The original assigned calories should already reflect that 2 lbs. of weight loss (MFP auto calculates a 500 calorie deficit into your daily consumption) without the added exercise calories.

With a net of negative 900 or more calories, you are actually under your daily calories by 1400. You are starving yourself if these numbers are accurate. Start with an accurate profile of what you do throughout your day or TDEE - 20% like others on the forums suggest. This could be why your weight loss is stalling a little. Just a thought.

It might be that you have to get a more accurate calculator for your daily caloric goal and stick to it as closely as possible.

Ok so maybe the 900 day was too low... Just didn't have time that day to eat as much.

But I thought by calcing my TDEE (2200) and taking off 20% to get to the 1760 goal I was already baking in my exercise and therefore didn't need to subtract that/add that again??

Assuming the tdee at 2200-20%= 1760. If you hit that number or go way less (and assuming your calorie count is accurate), you could be going too far below your tdee (given you are as aggressively at a deficit as you listed). Try getting more on your mark as you should be at tdee-20% as you can for a few weeks, and this would equate to upping your calories. Otherwise, double check you don't have any medical issues (prediabetes, etc.). Then the macro count comes into play.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/872212-you-re-probably-eating-more-than-you-think

*edit, nevermind. Didn't read the thread before replying.