Diet advice for someone short & obese :( I’m 5’0 (150 cm)

I am a female, age 23. Current weight is 204lbs. Height is 5’0 (150cm)

Using a TDEE calculator, my maintenance is 1,900. Therefore, to lose a healthy amount of weight is about 1,400 calories a day. I am very sedentary.

I’ve really been treating this as a lifestyle change rather than a “diet”, so I’ve cut out tons of things like added sugar & too much cream in my coffees, most processed foods, etc. But as it is a lifestyle change, I make it more sustainable for myself by still treating myself once in a while (calories still counted for 95% of the time). I haven’t really eaten more than 1,200 calories in a day except for maybe a day or two where I ate around 1300-1,400. Its been about 3 weeks; i’ve lost about 1.5lbs.

I’ve been eating on average 800-1000 calories a day. I do hit 1200 sometimes. But this really isn’t on purpose; I wake up late in the day so my eating window is 3:00pm - 9:00pm (unintentional IF) and since I’m eating cleaner, my calories are just pretty low. But I do eat til I’m satiated.

And to add, I count every calorie except negligible things like spices, 2 romaine lettuce leaves, squeeze of lemon juice, slivers of white onion, etc. I use a scale to weigh everything I eat.

Would it be better to actually try to hit my 500-calorie deficit of 1,400 cals a day? Or is keeping it around 1,200 okay? I definitely don’t want to go too low where my weightloss gets hindered.

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