I also advocate experimentation. I was losing weight at 240 eating around 1800-2000 calories a day, but I was also exercising. I think it's an excellent plan to up your calories to 1500 or so and see how you do. If you're losing weight more quickly than a couple of pounds a week and, especially, if you're hungry a lot, you may want to add another 100 or 200 calories a day.
Evening eating was a problem for me, too. I eventually fixed it by getting enough calories in earlier in the day, but also saving a 100 calories or so for an evening snack, that I call dessert (whether it's sweet or not) and mentally closing the kitchen for the night after that.
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