How consistent is your daily caloric intake?

distinctlybeautiful

I just hit my one-year mark last week and did some calculating. I found that my intake was very inconsistent. I was only at my goal (give or take 25 calories) 70 days of the year. I was under my goal 100 days, over my goal 135 days, and didn't log 61 days (not logging generally meant I was over). I'm more than satisfied with my progress over that year!

It just made me wonder if y'all are way more consistent than I am or if it's fairly normal to be all over the place. So what does your intake look like? Do you hit your goal on most days, or is your intake more varied?

I don't know if it makes a difference that my goal was maintenance. I think it's important to include that because it means hitting my goal consistently was probably more important than it might be if I were trying to create a deficit. A varied deficit still results in loss. Variations on maintenance do not result in maintenance unless they even out exactly

kommodevaran

Consistency doesn't necessarily mean accuracy, but being in the ballpark most of the time, enough to give you the results you want. Think "order of magnitude". Eating 1400-1800 OK. Eating 2800-3600 not OK.

distinctlybeautiful

Thanks! I'm not asking advice though! Just curious about other people's tendencies

Lounmoun

From the last 90 days. I think I lowered my calorie goal sometime during that but I don't remember when.

You didn't ask about consistant activity level. My activity level has been much more inconsistant than my calorie intake.
I have maintained for a few months and am starting to lose again.