How many calories per day?

The 1200 number is the minimum number for a woman to be able to get adequate nutrition from food alone.
Myfitnesspal will never advise a woman to consume less than 1200 calories.

The 'resting metabolic rate', or BMR, is a cute number, absolutely immaterial for the purpose of weight loss.

When you gave myfitnesspal your age, height, gender, and activity level, it calculated your NEAT, or Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis. That number is the calories you probably use in a day of normal activity.

When you told myfitnesspal your weight loss goal (Karnak predicts you want to lose 2 lb per week), myfitnesspal subtracted 1000 from your NEAT (according to Karnak's prediction) and presented that number to you as your daily calorie goal. IF NEAT-1000= less than 1200, myfitnesspal recommends 1200.

For real humans, 1200 is hard. Help yourself. Change your weight loss goal to 1 lb per week or 0.5 lb per week.
That sets your daily calorie target 500 or 750 calories higher. If you can comfortably complete your daily eating below that level, hooray.

Lindaash97 wrote: »

MFP has calculated my calorie intake as only 790 and I struggle to use all my calories. I've only put my weight loss of 2lb per week. I have a stone to lose which is coming off slowly! When I try to complete my entry it says it won't produce a report as not eating enough calories but they set my calorie target not me.

If you only have a stone to lose, your rate of loss should ONLY be .5lb/week. That is too much of a deficit for someone to get adequate nutrition in.

I'm surprised they actually generated that, because MFP does not usually generate anything less than 1200.

Lindaash97 wrote: »

I eat loads though, typical breakfast 1 weetabix with grapes, blueberries sometimes I have it with natural yogurt. Lunch I usually have 2 ryvita with cottage cheese/ ham / tomatoes and tea for example a pork chop with loads of veg ie carrot/ broccoli etc. Tend not to have snacks as I have a very sweet tooth and once I start I can't stop. Can't understand why it tells me I'm not eating enough. I am only 5ft 2 as well

I am short like you (5'3") and I have the same amount of weight to lose and I just put my goal as 'lose 2 lbs/week'. It gave me 1200 calories and said 'at this rate...you could use .8lbs/week. You would lose 4lbs by September 24th'.

Do you see how it said at 1200 calories, I would lose .8lbs/week, even though I put my goal as 2lbs?

This is because MFP won't give me a lower calorie goal. Now, I don't know what it does for older women but you are not even old.

Anyways, what I'm trying to say is, it is difficult to get all your nutrition in with under 800 calories under medically supervised and maybe you should take the slow route so you don't do any damage to your body.