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I'm on a 1200 calorie/day diet. I just started exercising again. Running half a mile, pushups, bicep curls, and Russian twists. I don't mind adding a few calories before workout, because I know I'm burning them. So far, before exercising, I'll have two egg-whites, two pieces of toast, and an apple. Is this enough? Does the apple help workout? After workout, I'll have a protein smoothie.
Sure, but the problem is that the only way to accurately know how many calories you are burning with your activity is to exercise on a VO2 max testing machine. Using an adaptive TDEE calculator is the best/easiest way to determine the calories needed for a deficit or surplus
Edit: in the above comment you also mention a BMR of 1800 with a 500 cal deficit to cut. You should be in a deficit from your TDEE calories, not BMR. You should never eat under your BMR
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Just FYI, TDEE ≠ BMR. I think you’re talking about TDEE here