Enlighten me please. How come people are closing

out their food diaries without eating all of their assigned calories?

I tend to see the same people doing this daily.

Wouldn't you want to eat as much as possible and still lose weight? Is that just my pipe dream?

I understand there may be days when you ran around like crazy and just didn't have the time to eat. I also know that there are days when you may be feeling under the weather at times.

Except for here and there my day usually ends with going over on calories.

Honestly I am recovering from an eating disorder. One of the medications I take pretty much kills my appetite. I try to eat as much as I can but it is really hard! I am practically forcing myself to eat.

I don't feel deprived. I'll eat if I'm hungry but if I'm not hungry I'm not going to force myself UNLESS I haven't eaten 1200. I don't worry about my 'net' calories and will only eat back exercise cals if I'm hungry after a training session. I'll also not worry if I'm within 100 cals of 1200 if I'm not hungry. If I'm a little under 1100 I'll have a glass of milk or a small piece of ham/chicken just to get me over.
I make notes in my diary if I am really hungry that day and will muse over what I did/ate that day and the day before and what times those things happened so I can make better choices in the future.

At the beginning I was forcing myself to try and get to 1880 but it was just too much. I was making really awesome choices and the volume of food was just way over what I could fit in. I'm sure if I was eating the way I used to I'd make my cals and more but go over on salt and fat while still being hungry. I just can't put those things in my mouth anymore knowing I'll be starving later because my blood sugar will drop off dramatically and I'll get headaches too.

Watching my weekly stats is quite amusing, without even being aware I average within 50 cals on the same day each week. And my pie charts are also pretty similar. I expect that to change now I'm going to walking on my 'off' days from training. I'll need more carbs to keep the noggin going lol.

Everyone has different reasons for staying under. My nutritionist warned me of counting calories and not to be suckered into the trap of HAVING to stay under that number every day. If I was hungry, eat the best choice I can make. If not hungry eh, just make sure I'm taking my vitamins and drinking water or try something really small just to keep my blood sugar level even. My body will tell me when I need to eat waaaay before I actually have a growling tummy or pains.

I am rarely under my calories, usually over by 50-200. And so far I'm able to lose weight doing this. Some days I'm just not as hungry, or I'm less active. It's rare though.

I have my limit set to TDEE so I know my max.

In my case, I sometimes don't get one day closed till the next day. If I don't get home till late, the only thing I want to do is get a bite to eat and settle down for the night. The food diary can wait till the next day.

I don't see what the big deal is. Everyone is different, that means different thinks work for different people. Today I netted -927 calories.

everybody is different, it's personal choice. if you only want to look at diaries above 1200 you can select only those people to be in your friends list, then only they will come up in your feed. i eat under 1200 calories quite often and i've learned that it really triggers and upsets some people on here. they have since deleted me from their friends list.

This is so interesting. I don't understand why this is.
When I gained all my weight in the winter, I wasn't eating much more than I do now. I eat about 1,200 daily give or take. I was probably eating about 1,500 before, yet I gained 30 pounds! Why would I eat more when it's obvious I have a harder time losing weight than others? If someone is only eating that much, then working it all off, I could understand.
But people need to realize that different people have different calorie intake needs and not be so judgmental unless they see that something is very wrong (like one item logged in a daily food diary).

I am attempting to come within 75 calories of my NET without going over. I do this so that when something isn't measured or estimated correctly I don't stress it. Today I am 150 under but I'm done for the day as I'm really not hungry and it's quarter till 11

If I'm not hungry, I'm not going to force myself to eat. I try to make sure I am close to my goal most days and my macros are relatively decent, but if I have exercise calories left, and I'm not hungry, I don't eat just to eat. That's what got me here in the first place.

Hi, you should add me. I eat to fill myself. I sleep late a lot of the time. So Sometimes I have a banana for breakfast and sometimes I add cereal with that. I try to go to the gym daily and use two or three machines. Therefore I burn a lot of calories every night and I try to have some left over so I can lose weight. I like having extra calories and I always keep myself full. That's the main priority here. Some people eat back their exercise calories, I don't use all of mine but most of them.

Simply put especially after learning more about my body I eat when I'm hungry I don't when I'm not. Some days I fill up my calories other days its hard to eat enough to hit the 1200 mark even. I think some people love to eat more than others as well. I learned early on I actually don't love food as much as I thought I did, it is fuel and if the tank feels full I have no feeling of need to add more.

I am in the it will all even out camp too. I dont generally worry about it. I also will put a note in the diary if it is way off and there is not a clear reason why (like eating out)

Well there are about 7000 different reasons people could be closing their diaries while being below their calories...eating disorders...sick...stress...exercise...burned dinner...lunch sucked...dropped breakfast on the floor...no time...want me to go on? Not sure why you're so concerned about others diary. If you don't approve of their intake then delete them...easy peasy!

It motivates me to see that I have a lot of remaining calories.

I don't know either. It happens a lot. I don't get why people don't simply adjust their numbers since they aren't following what MFP gives them. I see a lot of people with over 900 or more calories left over...without exercise. If someone wants to eat 1200 calories a day, that's fine but why have your diary saying you are supposed to be eating more than 2000 when you never do? I don't know whether to congratulate them or ask them whats wrong.