My maintenance tends to be around 1400. When I cut, I wind up between 1000 and 1200. For that, which was some time ago, I wasn't aggressively training, and my average was about 800. The 300 days were few and far between. And it was by far the time I've had the most success… the more I learned after that simple "eat less, move more" idea, the harder it became to lose as I worked more and more intensely with a smaller deficit because the rest of my activity plummeted. That was 8 months of hard dieting and moderate activity, and I lost 80 pounds. I don't recommend it, but I also wasn't working, in school, or had much else to do.
I'm just saying… wasn't hungry.