Ladies 5'3-5'4 doing stronglifts...how many calories to lose fat

If you want to lose weight, you should eat at a deficit. After lifting and eating at a deficit, your lifts will most likely stall (it could take months before this happens though). To get through the stalls, you'll need to bump up the calories to give your body more fuel to work and repair itself.

If you aren't too concerned with the scale number, you could try a recomp. You would eat at about your maintenance calories and lift heavy. Over time, you become leaner even though your scale weight may not change much.

To get a good starting number of what your maintenance is, use iifym.com or this one (http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/#projectedweightloss). Follow the number either gives you and reevaluate in a month to see if you are losing as predicted. If you aren't, you'll need to adjust up or down.

I'm 5'3", started SL5x5 about a year ago, followed it for well over 6 months, lifting 3 times a week. I think when I was truly following it, I was eating at about 1700-1800 calories a day. I lost consistently for several months, but was very close to my goal weight anyway. You may notice on lift days, or the day after, you are a bit hungrier. I would try to stay at a larger deficit much of the week to give myself some wiggle room on the "hungry" days. I did eventually stall out on the program, but was quite satisfied with what it did for my body. My heaviest lifts were 130 squat, 180 dead lift, 80 bench, 90 row, and 60 OHP. I'm going in a slightly different direction at this point with my fitness, still lifting twice a week, running 4 times and eating between 1800-2000ish a day and happily maintaining. I'm currently mid way through a half marathon program, but once I've completed that I'm really looking forward to resuming SL5x5. I absolutely loved the program! Good luck!!