I try to eat 1,250 calories per day to lose weight!!!

Just make sure that it's not too aggressive and sustainable. No shame in upping calories for continued loss.

Good luck!!!

When I first started weight loss I was 210 pounds and 5'7".

I set my goals to "lose two pounds per week" even though the app wizard suggested to use one pound per week.

I lasted for about a month at that - and I was eating back exercise calories too. I was also eating way over that on a few days per week - because I was hungry. So hungry.

I was miserable. My workouts started being difficult and I was fatigued, my nails and skin were dry and flaky. I was sleeping a lot and I was really cranky.

I raised my calories to the one and a half pound per week and that was so much better. I think it was 250 more calories per day. So much better.

I did lose a total of 70 pounds in nine months. That included several times of raising my calories little by little as I started to struggle to stick with it. At the end I was at 1600 plus exercise calories (for the last 35 pounds or so) and I wasn't miserable. That was about 2000 calories per day on exercise days including my hour of exercise.