I set mine for 2lbs a week w/sedentary, but I probably weight more than you as my calorie that was given was 1510 w/ workouts 3 times a week (30 mins a day)

Mine has 1200 calorie goal with a 2 pound a week loss. I've pretty much given up junk food. If I want something "unhealthy" I'll still eat it but know that I have to give something else up so I stay withing my calorie budget. I've been drinking lots and lots of water especially before I eat so that has helped me to control my portion sizes. It's been a challenge staying under 1200 but it is doable for me.

i had started my weight loss with a bang at the end of May, the weight came flying off initially as i had around 120 to lose. Now 6 months in & 68 pounds down, it has slowed down considerable. I'm ok with that, i'm probably set for .5 to 1 pound loss & right now that is fine, although i'm stalled right now.

I've set MFP to one pound per week; I have a fairly sedentary job and MFP allows me 1590 calories per day. I've been following this for three weeks (plus walking, doing yoga, and doing a basic bowflex workout), and I have lost 8 pounds so far. I know that this will likely slow down very soon, and I'm comfortable with the idea of losing at a slower pace, as long as I keep moving in the right direction.

I don't think I could manage on 1200 calories. I can fit eating 1590 calories into my life (eating the same food as my family, having a bedtime snack or occasional treat, etc), and I am hoping that, since I haven't felt deprived, I will actually be able to stick with it.

I'm set to 1lb/week. I use to be 2lbs when I first started in August but that lasted 2 weeks. I just couldn't do 1200cals. Even if I set it to 1.5 it was still 1200cals (I'm 5'2). I've been losing .5-1.5lbs a week consistently since then and I'm very happy. I don't cut any foods that I love and eat almost all my exercise cals. This, I can live with

My goal is set to 2 pounds with calorie intake of 1200. I kept my calories at or just under 1200 and did not eat back any of the exercise calories lost every day for the whole month of November, not even one bad day. I exercised 5X a week also. My total weight loss for November was 6 pounds or about 1.5 pounds per week. I'm going to keep the caloric intake the same for December.

I am probably not set right at this time. I plan to change it soon. I am set to 1.5 pounds a week/sedentary. I wear a Fit Bit that gives me more calories, but I seldom eat them. I am at 1200 calories and do fine with that.

I have lost 119 pounds at this point and have 41 more pounds to go. I lost at the 1.5 pounds per week - 2 pounds per week pretty regularly, up until 90 pounds loss. Then I stalled for about two months. I started weighing my food in grams at that point and I stepped off the plateau. I am now still losing, but very slowly. I am ok with that.

I tend to lose in spurts now (maybe 3-5 pounds over just a few days) and then stall. or even have a small gain for several weeks. But if I look at my weight loss chart I am overall heading downhill. When we went on a short vacation I had reset my goal to 0.5 pounds/week (1240 calories) and ate back half of my exercise calories. I had a nice loss (about 3 pounds) after returning home which never happens when I travel. So, I don't know if the extra calories helped me actually lose or not. I am very close to my BMI being out of the obese range and then going into the overweight category. When that happens in another 5 pounds I plan to change my settings to 1 pound per week. However, it really won't change my base calories. What I need to decide is whether I should eat back my exercise calories or not. If I do I still won't eat back more than half of my exercise calories to allow for logging errors.