Calorie counting? Though i gained when i actually lost!

rowbubble

SO basically on the 1st of March i was 62KG, and though it may not seem like a high weight for some women, for me it was pretty high because all my life i was 54kg and suddenly i shot up to 62 within 6 months! Yes, i blame binge eating and unhealthy food choices.......

Anyway i was really depressed and it got to the point where every day there would be one point in the day where i want to just sit down and cry about my weight. I decided not to weigh myself and only weigh myself when i think i have lost weight. So i started calorie counting and all. Unfortunately through the months i kept over eating and eating out and my weekly calories were saying that i was gaining half a pound a week rather than maintaining or losing. I would then work hard to be at a deficit and lose that half pound but i would eat 3500 calories over the week after and gain that weight back.

According to my calorie counts and my 'predictions', by the 1st of July i should be at 63kg, I exhaled and thought 'whatever. Im just going to weigh myself and know my weight now and start afresh'. I stood on my beautiful scales and it read 60.1kg and i was like 'WHATTTTTTTT'
Ive been super down since March about my weight and my lack of proper motivation, but i lost 2kg anyway hahahaha

What do you all think? Is calorie counting that accurate? Has anyone accurately predicted their weight loss without stepping on the scales?

ps: yes i know there are certain rules to CC, like calories from diff foods are digested and burned differently, calories burned arent necessarily calories from fat but could be from lean muscle/carbs, etc etc

WalkingAlong

I 'calorie counted' off about 35 lbs. in 2010 and my weight loss was about what my logged deficit (per Fitbit) suggested it should be. This year I've gotten about 17 off, about half through calorie counting. I haven't checked the math but I'm losing at roughly the rate I would expect, overall, I think.