Is it bad to eat less than 1200 calories occasionally?

I've been using LoseIt to track my food intake; currently my (32f, 5'2) budget is around 1,372 cal/day. I've been trying to look into food and ingredient alternatives so I can keep eating my favourites while sticking within my budget, and managing my eating schedule into something sustainable for me (I prefer to eat the bulk of my calories towards the evening/end of the day). So far it's gone extremely well — to the point that I find, on a lot of days, that I still have ~400-500 calories left in my budget at the end of the day (as in, 10:30pm and later). Not on purpose, it just happens that everything I've eaten that day is either incredibly low-calorie, or else I waited so long to eat that I ended up not having the time to even eat that much food lol

Most days I do eat something small before bed, to close the gap a little, but today I'm literally just... not hungry, and I have 467 calories left. I ate the equivalent of 1.5 heads of broccoli at dinner and it was FILLING. But from what I've read on this sub (+ other weight-minded subs) is that eating less than 1200 calories isn't sustainable or healthy. Is it bad for an occasional day here and there, or should I be trying to hit closer to my budget?

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