I think that online calorie recommendations can be notoriously inaccurate. I would suggest taking a week and entering everything you eat into whatever program you use. See what you are eating now and then reduce your daily intake by about 500 calories, taking care to not go too low. Then see what your body does with the change. If you are maintaining a higher weight on 2800 calories a day, reducing your intake to 2300 should show results. On the other hand, if you are maintaining on 1800 calories, eating 2300 will likely result in a gain. So you should see where you are now to figure out where you need to go.
ETA: I see you have been losing at 1200-1500 calories---if that is working I would not suddenly jump to > 2000 just cause some online calculator suggests it.
Last edited by midwife; 07-30-2008 at 10:31 AM.
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