1200 calories

3 x 400 calorie meals or my wife sometimes has 2 larger meals and a milkshake

[Regardless of calorie goal] I have ~same every day:

B'fast: oats/toast, coffee & fruit
Lunch: crunchy noodle and bean salad
Dinner: steamed veg & tofu
Dessert (every other day): ice cream &/or alcohol
Snacks: protein shake, fruit, nut butter on rice cakes
(+sugar-fee drinks, lollies, hot cocoa & tea)

Where:
Type of fruit/veg varies seasonally
Calories vary monthly
Proportion calorie/meal ~constant.
Macros are activity/mood-dependent, ranging from 40-60g fat, 60-120g protein & 100-160g carbs

With my stats MFP gives me 1200 calories, 1380 when Fitbit exercise is added yipppppeeeeee. I can do 1200, BUT it's not much fun. So I track and log according to my burned calories on Fitbit and aim for the proper calorie deficit according to what I want to loose per week. It's much easier to maintain a calorie deficit of 200,500,750 or even 1000 than existing on 1200 a day. That just plain sucks

It won't be perfect, I don't expect it to be as long as the scale keep moving the right direction and I can stick to it!!! It seems whole lot easier for me than existing on celery and hope. Which is what 1200 calories gives you

Breakfast-homemade veggie chili with 1 oz lean chicken added in : 240 cal
Coffee milk during day- 40 cal.

Lunch- mixed greens salad with 2 crushed almonds, 1 slice of mango, avacado (1/4), 10 raisins, 1 oz chicken and oil and vinegar. 270 cal

Snack- protein bar. 190-280 cal nibbled throughout the day- very filling. The bar depends on my calorie count.

Dinner- homemade tofu and chicken taco with 1 tsp homemade hummus, 1/4 avacado, 14 gm tofu cheese. 350 cal.
Protein shake with half a banana and blueberries 280 cal.

That gets me to about 1460 (with the higher cal protein bar) and I do cardio which burns 235 cal daily on the weekdays. I cut the protein bars or shake if no cardio.

That's a typical work day. On the weekends I often eat a different lunch and dinner. I've been eating that for years, and get variety on weekends and snacks. But then the protein bar or shake get cut from the day.

I'm 5'2", 62 yo, and lose about 1 1/2 pounds a month for the past 9 months. I'm close to switching to maintenance and will add 150-200 calories slowly. I'm not hungry on this, eat out with friends (half portion usually), and don't feel deprived.

I go over on the weekends by about 300-600 calories depending on the day and event and recognize that this might up my daily calories to 1300 if I averaged it out, but I also don't count walking calories, just dedicated cardio. I feel great and have tons of energy. You need to play with it.

I have been doing 1200 calories since April, don't always make it, but most of the time I'm on target. I have my goals set up as 160 for Breakfast, 470 for Lunch, 250 for Dinner and then two Snacks of 160 each. I generally eat whatever I want, just less of it, but also try to stick to lean meats and lower carb options.

I also tend to wait as long as possible each day to start eating (usually at least noon, unless I'm just really really hungry). Just works better for me that way.