I am going to try something different...

I have been following MFPs suggestions and havnt really seen too much progress lately. So i am going to change it up. My BRM is 1408 calories a day, I will need to lose from that 500 a day to drop a lb in a week, so I am going to bring my calories per day to 900 not 1200. Just for a week and see what happens. I am still going to eat 1200 calories or more but i am going to start running more and I am doing Zumba so it will be easy to burn those extra calories. Any thoughts? This is really a test because i am bored. I have been doing Jillian 30 day shred all last month She suggest 1400 a day and doesnt mention eating back calories.
I need to change things up.

No, no, no that is not how it works. You need to be under your maintenance calories by 500. Maintenance calories are higher than BMR. Go to goals, under My Home tab, and look at calories burned from normal activity, that is your maintenance caloires.

Judging by your profile picture you don't look like you have much to lose, and you should have a smaller, not a larger caloric deficit. Try setting your goal at 0.5lbs/week instead. When you don't have much to lose you should not eat under BMR calories, so eat between BMR and maintenance for a healthy weightless. if your deficit is larger you risk burning a large % of muscle.

Please read this post from Banks below:

the reason why you need to reduce your deficit as you move closer to a healthy weight is many fold. One of the main reasons is the one you stated (I.E. to prepare you for maintenance), and while that may not seem like a big deal, adherence is listed as the number one reason why people yo yo diet. In other words, BECAUSE people treat it like a diet instead of a permanent lifestyle change, is one of the main reasons why it doesn't work. Creating healthy eating habits that you can live with is a main way to lose the weight and keep it off.
Another main reason, (and these are in no particular order of importance), is because the size of the deficit is a direct correlation to the amount of energy in the body available to use to make up the difference.
Without getting to complicated, the goal of a deficit is to force the body to burn adipose fat to make up the difference. But there's a line there, when fat stores shrink, available surface area of fat shrinks, which means less fat for the body to draw on at any one time to use to make up the energy difference. If your deficit is to large, the body will do 2 things, 1 it will try to utilize the third source of energy (protein) which it generally will get from muscle mass (taking the least used muscle first, which is why anaerobic exercise during weight loss is important), and the second thing it will do is (like a dimmer on a light switch) turn down the metabolic activity in the body, reducing certain organ and system functions to reduce energy needs.

It's important to note that there's no "line in the sand" where this all starts happening, it's a constant evaluation based on homeostasis throughout the body and hormone production, and as such you are almost always burning at least a little muscle mass, even if you're perfect, but the percentages go way up if you create too large of a deficit, (either by incorrectly choosing your goals, or by exercising to grow your deficit, or a combination of both), so the idea is to minimize protein burn, while maximizing fat burn by keeping the deficit in the sweet spot, as you lose body fat, that sweet spot deficit becomes smaller.

Hehe i like that he referred to it as the sweet spot. lol
Oh I see... well my maintenance is 1760 calories a day, I have daily calorie allowance for 1280 calories a day. I dont know where my sweet spot would be.

Well I just changed it and it is telling me i can eat 1510 calories, seems kind of high and sometimes i cant even eat back my calories when i consume 1200. I dont know what i am doing anymore. :huh: i am going to go take nap. And figure something out later.
Thanks though!