Exercising, tracking - still gaining weight?

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GrowlingLucifer58 wrote: »

Thank you everyone for the insightful replies. I will readdress my calorie counting, but I'm struggling to see where it could be inaccurate; most veg I consume is green and / or leafy; I don't often have things like avocado or sweet potato. However, I'll be a bit more vigilant for a while, see if it stops the rapid gain. mmapags - its not so much a case of wanting to lose weight, more trying to figure out why I've suddenly started putting it on. 127lb is fine with me, but I don't much fancy the idea of the trend continuing for years, as I'd be quite a bit heavier in not too much time at all.

One overindulgence a week can wipe out a 250 calorie deficit per day, and if you aren't weighing everything, it is entirely possible to be eating at least 100 calories more per day than you think - that adds up. For you to be as accurate as possible, you have to track everything. I go out on Friday nights to eat with friends. Last week I had broasted chicken and fries - when I tracked it, it was over 2500 calories - had some salads off the salad bar as well.

I am short - about 5' tall. To lose .5 lb a week, my calories are set to 1340. So if I eat 2500, that is 1000 over maintenance. Divided by 250 calorie deficit a day, that wipes out 4 additional days of deficit, and the day that I ate the extra food. And that is IF I actually very accurately tracked everything. So as you can see from the math, it is easy to be over.