What's my recommended calories for weightloss 1-2lbs a week ?

go here to figure out your TDEE.

TDEE-1000 calories every day should mathematically result in a 2 pound loss per week, TDEE-500 calories every day will result in 1 pound loss per week, but you should not eat below your BMR.

Your BMR alone is an estimated 1600 calories, according to a TDEE calculator, so you don't want to go below that number.

Your TDEE using the Lightly Active modifier is 2251. Subtracting 20% for a moderate deficit gives you 1800 calories to eat each day without eating back exercise calories.

I'd almost say you're Moderately Active. How long are you on your feet each day at work? Either way, that would give you 2,000 calories to eat each day without eating exercise calories back.

TimothyFish wrote: »

At 1400 calories, you can expect to lose 1 lb a week, since you are walking.

Wrong

I'm 5'2 and all I do is walk and I'm roughly same weight and I loose 2 pounds a week most weeks sometime little more sometimes little less, but it works out to be 2 pound a week average.

You've been doing this 2 weeks, the first week you lost a bunch (normal), the second nothing? Or you just don't know yet? If nothing, that's also normal, as sometimes an adjustment to the loss of water weight in the first, so if you have a number you got from MFP you could just stick with it, as MFP's estimate should be right. Or try MFP, 1.5 lb loss (or 2 if you want), and lightly active and then log back additional walks taken for exercise.

If you want to do TDEE method, I get approximately 2200 TDEE, but you are going to get a different number from different calculators based on somewhat different formulas, not knowing your body fat percentage, and different ways of estimating activity, so this is only a rough estimate to start with. At at 2200 TDEE, 1700 would be a 1 lb/week loss, and 1450 would be a 1.5 lb/week loss, so what you are doing seems consistent with that and reasonable. (My guess is that if you log carefully you might lose more than this at first, as you are probably a bit more active in reality and also that's just sometimes what happens at the beginning. But everyone is a little different.)

I started MFP with really similar stats to yours: 200, 5'3, and 44, and was also lightly active, and I was losing 2 lbs/week at 1250 + exercise calories (I ate back most of them). You probably walk more in your daily job than I do, although I was walking a decent amount for daily activity outside my job.

I wouldn't worry about BMR--the issue there is not having too steep a deficit and at your weight 1-2 lbs/week is totally reasonable.