Help I'm scared I'm not eating enough!

When I first came on here MFP set me at 1200,I really struggled on that. Didn't lose a pound & I was so moody. I put it up to 1450 a day & I was losing about a pound a week. I spend most of the day on my feet but that's due to my job. Play around with your calories and see what works for you

The goal of the game is to eat as much calories as possible without weight gain, I would start at 1600 and reduce only if you need to or when you hit a plateau. The slower you lose the better shape you will be in in the long run.

It sounds like you have your goal set too aggressively, for someone who only has 15 pounds to lose. Go in and change it to a half a pound a week.

I have a hard time getting enough calories and try to add things that have good fats,carbs etc to up my calorie count. I noticed the more often I eat the more I lose. The reason this program here is good for me is that it makes me accountable and actually think about eating normally. Helps me by reminding to not go without eating and binging later .

Use light active and eat back exercise calories. Also you don't seem to have much to lose at all, so switch to losing half a pound a week.

There are a lot of points in your post that I would like to address, so I will take each in turn and I apologize for the length. But first and foremost, I would like to address the calorie counting.

Essentially, 1200 calories would be the goal I might set for someone who sits at a desk all day, is grossly overweight and eats junk out of vending machines all day, never exercises, and lacks the ability or willingness to change more than their diet. But you said that you do exercise. Walking the kids to school, light workouts, etc. You give no information as to how intense "light" might be, or for that matter how intense the "high impact" workout was that you used to do (few of my fellow fitness instructors do 2 hours of high impact per day, so that is an accomplishment to be proud of!)

You, however, going strictly by height/weight ratio, are obviously not in this category and may want to look at what your MFP goal settings are and if they are realistic.

MFP is a fantastic set of tools, but let us not get caught up in the calorie counting and focus on the other facets it provides that encourage healthy living. The goal should not be to lower your calorie intake so as to lose weight, but instead start eating better foods and increasing your activity level. The only time you should need to look at the number of calories you intake (and that is mostly in the beginning stages) is to compare foods to determine which is your better choice to eat, and which foods (or ingredients) to keep or include in your diet compared to foods you should limit or exclude. You can eat healthily and eat an amazing amount of food in a day to meet your energy needs, or you can eat one meal at a fast food restaurant, go over your "daily goal", and be hungry again in a half hour.

In summation, I suggest that you focus on staying active (by staying active, I mean at an increased cardio level--e.g. exercise) and eating healthily. As long as you burn more calories than you take in, you will lose weight. Use MFP and any other tools you like to track you progress, and keep us informed as well!