That sounds WAAAAY too low for your age and weight.
A good way to work out how many calories you need is to work out your BMR (use a calculator on google, punch in your details) then using the Harris Benedict Formula times that number by 1.2. That should give you basically how many calories to consume per day to maintain your weight. Of course this is just an estimate but its a good guide.
Then, with this number, subtract 15-20%. That should be a good starting point, you have reduced your calories too low to 1200 and you will plateau very early. You need to reduce them slowly to lose more weight.
Combining the 15-20% decrease with around 30 minutes of exercise should get you at around 2lbs fat loss per week.
Is this calorie calculator accurate? It seems like an awful lot of work when I can't find a calculator that works properly.
According to this though, 1872.57 cal should be my calorie intake. Wow.
Is it okay if I weigh in every day, or should I make it a once-a-week thing? I've seen the "weigh every day club" around here, and I think it might kill me to not know if I'm doing okay or not. I think I might forget the day I'm supposed to weigh in, and then get all discombobulated.
Then again, maybe it would be better to see my progress on a larger, weekly scale (no pun intended)
So while I haven't been depriving myself, I haven't indulged, but now I can eat like, 600 more calories.
And I think one of the reasons I've found the treadmill so daunting is because I've been using it at least an hour at a time. I think if I decreased this, I wouldn't find it so hard.
Thank you so much for all of your help!!
Perhaps you could cook the family evening meal one night a week, and if you follow the advice and try some of the dishes on the web site you could learn a bit more about how to eat healthily. I notice you only exercise on the treadmill, and are sometimes reluctant to use it. Maybe you need to try other types of exercise, or if there is a ark near you, how about going for a walk outside, and save the treadmill for rainy days. Is there a club near you that you could join, something like and art club, or anything else that you are interested in, Its a great way of getting out and meeting new people, and it takes your mind of the diet. Perhaps you could take up a new hobby, like sewing clothes or knitting, a great way of keeping the hands out of the cookie jar. I knit socks, you get some really funky wool nowadays and they make great presents for friends and family for birthdays and Christmas. Well good luck with the weigh loss, keep up the good work.
Yeah, that would be possible, and I think it would really help my mom out too. I don't have my driver's license yet, so I find it kind of hard to go anywhere to work out. I need to get out my mom's sewing machine, I got some really awesome fabric and I want to make some pillows. I used to knit but I got pretty bored with it, so then I moved on to latch hooking ( I got this amazing latch hook kit from my grandmom a couple years ago and I'm not even half way done yet) and now I'm kind of just doing nothing. I got my ged a while ago and my ceremony's this wednesday. I took a college course last semester (and I got a 4.0 Gpa!)
But yeah, I'm going to try to make an effort to eat healthier.
And I guess I'll have to up those calories too.
Thanks for your input guys!
It's just so much BS 
.. Makes me want to scream!
