Well… I find that have a hard time pushing myself,
Which is entirely natural when you are on restricted calories and doing a high workload. You can’t push yourself because your body is telling you it can’t recover from what you are doing, so how can you possibly do more?
I have a distinct memory, from quite a long time back, when I was trying to get really lean. I was out running and all of a sudden I just literally couldnt run anymore. I started walking and thought this is stupid, its not far back, Im not out of breath, just run. I started running and 5 steps later I was walking again. I tried this maybe 5-6 times. I was in a similar position to you, training evry day, not eating enough and depleted completely.
The more you eat the more you can do. If you want to do more, because you like training every day, then eat more.
If you want to eat the way you eat, because you like the level you are eating at, then you need to do less. You can only do more and eat less for so long before you hit a wall. Thermodynamics and all that.
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Judging by your numbers, I gotta call bullshit. You more likely extremely good at pushing yourself, and you have transferred that same will power into some mis-guided idea that you are already eating plenty, when you probably aren’t. But I don’t actually know what any of your goals are, so I will leave it at that.
Omg, this is exactly how I feel
Then you are, like I was, undereating and overtraining 
I don’t eat much more, though i did up my calories, but I did drop the cardio and felt and looked better for it.
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The year is 2024, anna still hasnt made imrpovements to her lifts, she stills wonders why but fails to take the advice to eat more and recover properly . . . 
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I feel like I should be offended, but I can’t stop laughing
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give it a go , keep a log even if its for 14 days . . .
I eat “1700” kcal/day but likely more because I don’t track the piles of veggies I eat every day(albeit non starchy ones like leafy greens and mushrooms without far/dressing)
I eat basically the same thing every day so at least I’m consistent
Whether or not you eat 1700 calories does not matter.
EAT MORE!
and don’t laugh it off
If you don’t eat 800-1000 gr. of veggiesevery day it doesn’t count at all. If you eat mostly pure protein like chicken and tuna or whatever - same. You spend 25-30% of their energy for digesting and that’s a simple fact. 1700 are for your basic metabolism, with every 50 000 steps a day and conditionig, +500 sounds better.
As I see more and more people come to comment and say the same. May be there’s something…
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wow, how is possible to fit this amount in your small body 
One kilo of cabbage is pretty hard. :).
Oh, I’ve done 1kg cabbage +half kilo of spinach…in 1meal
How much did you ‘actually’ increase your intake by when you went from a perceived 1400 to a perceived 1700? Did you actually add real calories, or just restimate and throw more greens in?
Curious to know what extra you are actually eating now in comparison to previously?
I suspect 1400 was a deficit, and 1700 is probably your low end maintenance level, evidenced by the fact that you aren’t gaining weight but feel a bit drained.
‘maintenance’ calories isnt actually a number, its been demonstrated to be a window within which you can increase calories and your body will passively increase metabolic output before you will accumulate fat, or drop calories and your body will lower metabolic output before you lose fat. So maintenance may actually be a range of something like 1,600 - 2,000 calories.
Since your past few weeks eating have established ,1700 as a maintenance level, I think it would be reasonable to target 2,000 for a few weeks. I suspect you will still not gain weight (apart from an initial increase as you fill some glycogen, that will then plateau) but will probably feel better.
If you need to drop your greens intake for more dense foods that should be something to consider as long as you are still eating a good amount, just don’t ‘fill up’ on them, that’s a dieting strategy.
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As I said above, a good strategy if youre dieting, because now you’re full. Stupid strategy if you are trying to gain weight.
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I’m about to start the deload though. Does that change anything?
Not in the slightest. If you lower your calories in response to lower volume then it wouldnt be a deload, youd just be matching your new recovery requirements. Would defeat half the purpose
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I will drop this here, way back in university, I was very slim and fit and my friends thought that I only eat at school. I ate a lot, so during the nutrition class, we did log our food intake. I was over 3000 per day!
My life was school, farm stuff and gym, and emptying my fridge.
In case, you don’t know, I am 5’7’ + back then I was 145lb mid 20 and yes a woman
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I would be interested to see what that looks like.
I think @Pinkylifting is giving you great advice here so all I want to throw in is one stat. I decided to put your 50k steps into my pedometer and came out with over 20kcal energy expenditure just from the walking.
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I don’t get 50k/day(that was a 1 off thing), it’s more like 20-23k queencobra was using a hyperbole I guess