Need some reassurance please.

I'm trying to maintain now. I'm letting those two pounds that I wanted to lose go and accepting my weight at 100. So....My BMR is set at 1330. I'm eating between 1250 and 1300 cals a day. I've noticed that I've gotten hungrier as I add in the extra calories. Why could that be? Also...every once in awhile I go over what I naturally burn. For example, I burn 1330 but then I eat 1400 cals maybe once or twice every two weeks. I exercise but then I'm finding that I have to exercise ALOT in order to burn off that extra amount. (I'm still in the mindset that I have to keep at least a 200 cal deficit a day). If I occasionally eat this way, will I undo my progress? What if I keep a deficit of 200 cals every day but on one day I go over by 200 cals and can't burn that off with exercise? Will I gain weight from that one day?

If your BMR is 1330, you burn more than that - that's just what you burn in a coma. At sedentary, you burn 1600/day, more if you exercise, and should be able to eat that much and still maintain your weight.

Really? I had it set at sedentary and that is the number it gave me. But if I actually burn more that makes me feel so much better.

BMR is what you burn in a coma. I don't know where you got 1330 from - if it's your BMR, then you actually burn more. If you got it from CC, then it isn't your BMR, it's your sedentary burn.

Yes, I got it from CC. I was using that number as my base and then adding the calories I burned for exercise. Is this not right?

For example: I figured I burned 1330. Then I did lets say....30 min of cardio at 70 cals.  I added that in to say I was burning 1400. Am I completely wrong here?

I would love to be able to eat more. :)

Sounds what you are doing is right - sorry if I confused you. You must be tiny!

Think of it over the long run - if you have a 200 deficit 6 days a week, and eat above your burn by 200 one day, you'll have a deficit of 1000 for the week - so you'd lose a third of a pound or so (-200 + -200 + -200 + -200 + -200 + -200 + 200 = -1000) - in other words, that one day of eating 200 extra (above burn) just cancels out one of the days of deficit - all the other days are still deficits.

If you keep a deficit of 200 a day, you will continue to lose weight. In order to maintain, you need to eat as much as you burn.

I just wanted to chime in because I am very tiny as well, at 4'11 and 95 pounds. 

Don't be afraid to up your calories to maintain.  CC gives such a low number for our sedentary burn, but I have been eating 1800 calories a day for a month now and actually lost a pound.  I exercise for 50 minutes a day 6 days a week, and for the one day of the week I don't, I eat around 1500.  I'm assuming I could still be eating a little bit more and still maintain though since the scale has gone down.

So, even if you don't exercise as much, you should still strive for more than 1300 calories a day.

I'm not the only one too, it scared me to go above what CC recommends, but there are a ton of people on here that weigh around 100 pounds and maintain on much more than 1400 calories. I just though I'd offer you this information since it helped me when I saw that other people that weighed as little as I do could eat more and maintain.

The thought of eating 1300 calories a day for the rest of my life like CC says would just be depressing.  I definitely think it underestimates the needs of tiny people.  Just to add....other calculators on different sites give me a much higher maintenance number.

Yeah.....1300 a day for the rest of my life is not what I was looking forward to. I'm 5'2.5 and I think I'm finally at a weight that I would like to keep for life BUT I hate not being able to have those pancakes and the occasional ice cream. Right now I crave bread (the Sara Lee 45 cal wheat bread...OMG that is so good!!) and chocolate. I've never been a chocolate eater but lately...man I want brownies and  chocolate chip cookies. I just wanted to make sure that if I did allow myself the occasional treat I would still be ok.

Thanks all!

sullysbunny: Even though I am an older male and weigh around 172, everything you have said and wondered about resonates exactly with me.  I went from the elation stage of losing 45 pounds and landing in my basic target weight window to the depression state discovering that I either have to restrict myself to 2000 calories a day OR exercise over 2 hours a day just to maintain.  I had not planned on having to make that sort of life-style commitment.  I thought, based on all the online BRI and BMR and exercise calculators I checked, that I could exercise 90 minutes a day and take in around 2500 calories AND still maintain.  Ha ha ha !