I did a test to see how much calories I should get in a day to be in an appropriate calorie deficit. This came out to 1386 which I've rounded out to 1400. I don't know how reliable those online tests are but it seems pretty reasonable because I sit a lot.
Today I've been weighing my food and read all the nutrition facts on all the packages of food I ate. At the end of the day I got to 1134 calories with three meals that left me feeling very full. I'm just a bit confused because when I see what I can eat while staying well below a deficit, I don't know how I gained my weight in the first place. So I don't know if I did anything wrong with my measurements.
Ofcourse I had my days where I definitely ate too many calories the way I ate today isn't very different in amounts or types of food than I usually do. So I'm curious if I'll start seeing effects now that I'm actually tracking my calories.
My biggest question now is, does it matter if I go over my deficit sometimes when I stay quite a bit under it at other times. So for example, if I've had 1200 out of 1400 for three days could I eat 2000 on the fourth because I still stay true to the 1400 when looking at the average of all the days.
My other big question is if anyone has tips to make the calculating easier? This evening I started eating almost ten minutes after the rest of my family because I was weighing my foods and making sure I wasn't going over my deficit.
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