More calories?

5’6

About 115-117lbs

Looking to lose weight/tone up

If I burn approx 500 cal per day with exercise, how many calories should I be consuming? Right now if you subtract my exercise cals its always under 1000, I barely even get to 1200 (excluding exercise) but I am trying, I just dont want to eat too much and gain weight.

I have quaker weight control oatmeal for breakfast with coffee (nonfat milk and 2 splenda)

I cut up half an apple and put it in tuna in a wrap for lunch (no mayo or anything)

Usually the same for dinner

I’ll usually have an apple or two in between there somewhere for snacks

Today I had kellogg’s shredded wheat in addition to my oatmeal, because everyone keeps telling me to up my cals or I wont lose weight. But I didnt get to have ‘breakfast’ til noon, so I didnt eat lunch. Im up to 600 cals already (its 1:30) and havent worked out yet.

Any advice for what I should be doing? Was eating cereal with the oatmeal a bad idea and just bad calories? Im so bad at this lol