I’m a little lost and would greatly appreciate some help with daily calorie intake, maybe someone’s is or have been in the same situation, F26, 5’11”, 174lbs (181cm, 79kg) tracked intake included!

I’m a little lost and I would greatly appreciate some help with what to aim for as a daily intake, charts and previous tracking included (F26, 5’11” (181cm), 174lbs (79kg))

Hello! Thank you for reading this!

I’m a 26 yo woman that has been losing weight for approx a year, a little more, and has gone from 98kg ->79 kg (-19kg). 216->174 (-42lbs). I am now at a healthy BMI and feel very good about what I have accomplished! (Big thanks to all the amazing subreddits on here).

Onto the question..

The majority of the weight was lost with intuitive eating but since April/may I’ve been regularly tracking my calories to get a more grip of how much I’m eating. It’s been going well and weight loss has been fine. Although I now feel like I’m at a crossroads of sorts - either adjust up or down.

At first I see my goal for 1500kcal/day but in recent weeks I have been going under that to see if I can have a quicker weight loss. At first it went well, but this week I’ve been feeling pretty darn crappy and my weight has gone up a bit, which I didn’t expect from a low calorie intake. I’ve been expecting excessive hunger (which I attributed to monthly cycle), low energy in general (I have bad pollen allergy and generally feel like crap during summer). I am aware of daily and monthly fluctuations (I’m on BC with no period but I gather I’d still have some hormonal changes over the month). My question is, could I be eating to little? I’ll be honest - I am a little afraid to up my intake since I have the fear of staring to gain weight again, but right now I feel like I have to do some kind of adjustment.

Regarding activity level, I usually put “sedentary” in TDEE calculators, since I have a desk job but I do get at least 30 min of walking every day as purely exercise and walk to all appointments, grocery store etc.

Here is my recent weeks daily intake and weight in a TDEE 3.0 tracker I found here on Reddit and downloaded to excel: https://imgur.com/a/Qo1n7QL TDEE.3.0 excel link

Sorry for a long wall of text, I would be so happy if anyone felt they had the time to look at this a and help me try and decipher what would work best for me. I have come to the conclusion that I will be fine with a slower weight loss, as long as I can trust that the trend will be going down.
Thank you again for reading and please let me know if anything is unclear!

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