I've managed to lose 30 pounds in the last six months by eating 1200-1400 calories, but lately I've hit a plateau. The reason for that is that I've had my first encounters with binge eating, which is not something I'd ever struggled with before. I think I'm just exhausted from sticking to what feels like such a strict diet. I just give up, and then I'm stuffing my face with everything in sight, and then the next day I'm back to 1200-1400. I have about 5-10 more pounds to lose so I'm in the home stretch, but something is just not working, I need to change my routine. So my question is, do you think I would still lose weight eating back what the Fitbit says I have burned walking around? Conventional wisdom around here says don't do that because it likely overestimates calories burned by 10-50% (there seems to be some debate on how much). But if I set it to allow me 1200 calories per day, plus however much I burn, would that still be a deficit? I'm okay with losing weight slower than usual, I'm in the normal weight category so this is aesthetic more than health related. I would love to hear your thoughts on this, especially if it's something you've tried for yourself! Thanks!

Edit: 28F, 5'6, SW: 155 lb, CW: 125 lb, GW 115. Student/cashier, I set my step count goal to 15k a day and I tend to make that goal 5 or 6 days per week. Fitbit says that burns about 600 extra calories which definitely sounds high. I think I could actually stick to 1800/day though.

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