Christa...

You've been low carbing for 3 weeks and are already 1/3 of the way to your goal. If you are currently losing at the level that you are at, why change it? If you're currently losing, lowering your calories farther may backfire and cause you to stall instead of speeding things up.
I agree with Mrschmelz...with as much exercise as you do (plus more than you think caring for 3 small children!), your body will need more calories than a person who is sedentary.





Teuthis...I have to disagree with this statement. Maintainance takes more calories than weight loss and as you approach maintainance, you should be eating more, not less. To maintain your weight, caloric intake should equal caloric expenditure, not be less than it, and with keeping your insulin production down along with the carbs most will find that they can maintain at a higher level of calories than they did before as long as they haven't messed up their metabolism through low calorie dieting.