Too many calories left at the end of the day? Am I under eating?

Ok immediate things jumping out at me:

Today
Pancakes 3 servings - is this your own recipe or have you just picked one out of the database, if it's not your own recipe you have no idea how accurate this or what the ingredients are.

Dressing 1 serving - again looks like a generic database option, it's very easy to underestimate dressing calories particularly if dressing is oil based.

Fried Halloumi - I had halloumi earlier this week, mine would have been around 285 cals for 80 grams, does this account for any oil used? I did mine on a george foreman type grill so used no oil so if you add a teaspoon of oil to it, you're talking nearly 400 cals.

Wednesday

Are you weighing things like cheese coleslaw - 45g is not an awful lot, same with the chutney.

Same question for some of the items going further back - are you picking generic database entries rather than creating your own recipes/checking nutrition info on packaged foods. Are you guesstimating weights? The below illustrates how badly this can go (I am not judging - I've been there myself) a food scale is a worthwhile investment even if it's just until you can learn to eyeball portion sizes properly.



E.T.A. there is also the possibility that your Fitbit isn't as accurate as you might hope - they are not 100% accurate and if once you've determined your logging calories in as accurately as possible and you're not seeing weight loss over a 4-6 week period then it is worth reviewing the accuracy of calories out. Many people here start with eating 50% of "earned" calories through trackers and then adjust up/down accordingly based on actual results.

senojylrac wrote: »

Thanks for your reply.. The dressing and pancakes are both recipes that I've added myself with the proper measured proportions and split them.. I have been accurate with those.. The halloumi was weighed and dry fried..

I did guess on the Coleslaw but not on the Chutney, the couple of times I have guessed I've actually over estimated as I know from being on slimming world how different an actual weighed amount can be compared to what you think.. And I do think I have a fairly good grasp of how food looks especially if I can use tsp or tbsp measurements ...

The only time I struggle is with drinks from Cafe Nero and places like that when I obviously don't know the exact measurements of coffee etc.. I tend to use what other people have input on the database but try and check it if I can.

I do suspect I've been eating too much bread and sugary stuff tbh as I cut a lot of that out on SW and didn't really have any bread so I think it causes me to bloat now too.

Do you think I need to start leaving more calories at the end of the day then incase the fitbit is overestimating?

Thank you for your help xx🙂

To the bolded - presumably you want to lose fat not water, so whether bread causes a bit of bloat for a couple of days is inconsequential to long term weight loss.

If you think you're logging accurately. Try 50% of the exercise adjustment for 4-6 weeks, if you're losing more than expected adjust upwards, if you're losing less than expected adjust downwards.