Am I the only one?

You're meant to get as close to 0 with your total as possible.

And OP, you're not alone. I never have trouble meeting my calorie goal.

Never a problem. I will exercise more just to have a snack lol (oh wait, I also have a very hard time losing weight..hm.)

I keep seeing all these posts saying 'I struggle to eat my calories' and I'm honestly baffled because I have never, ever, ever struggled to hit my calories. I always have something healthy in the house to eat, whether it be fruit or a tuna snack or something. I just don't struggle to eat!

Most days I struggle to eat what most consider enough, but today I ate about 2,000 calories.

I had a hard time when I first started. I had (unknowingly) been eating 400-700 net calories a day, so trying to eat 2-3 times that was difficult. During pregnancy it was also hard for me to eat, I just wasn't very hungry (I only gained 15 pounds). Now that I'm logging my food and breastfeeding I'm still struggling to meet my calorie goal some days. I don't want to know what it'll be like once I start exercising as well!

Well, I have had that problem. I found that I was really full after dinner and didn't even want to eat any more. I couldn't see the point of stuffing more food into my mouth that I wasn't even hungry for just to hit some arbitrary number. Eating because it was there not because I was hungry was what got me into this situation in the first place!

However, I have noticed the last couple of months that I have no problem hitting my calorie limit these days. This is partly because I've become smarter about eating more healthy snacks during the day rather than waiting until the evening. Also, as I've lost weight and improved my cardiovascular fitness, my workouts have become longer and more intense, so I think my body is just demanding more calories. If I occasionally go a few calories over my goal now I don't stress over it. I'm eating healthy foods and I'm listening to what my body is telling me.

It's a mind thing. We are all trying to lose weight so we eat as healthy as we can and exercise. So at the end of the day when you have calories left over and you've ate healthy all day it's kinda scarry seeing that you still have to eat...and still try and make healthy choices...

Uh, NO. One of my most memorable moments in life is when I was in my 20s - and much thinner and had excellent eating habits overall. I started tracking my calories and exercise (not easy since this was before this wonderful site - or even the internet) because I was feeling so tired, to find out that I was only consuming around 600 net calories a day! I did the biggest "happy" dance right there in my kitchen all by myself! I can eat more! I can eat more!

I miss those days… :ohwell:

I don't struggle to eat my calories either! Sometimes I'm 100 under, but it really depends on what I eaten. I've never eaten under 1,100 while on this site, and tracking.

I'm looking forward to my ice skating class, I'll burn more calories two days a week and then get to eat more (healthy) food.

I am usually trying to figure out how to not go over!

Then again, if you leave alone on the weekend, I will go out and eat lunch at a place that is TRIPLE my daily calorie limit. O.O Then I am still hungry later.

It's hard for me for a few reasons. I work out quite a bit and am sometimes just not THAT hungry throughout the day. I tend to eat lots of smaller meals (200-300 calorie range) every couple of hours starting from about 6/7am-3pm, then I usually go to the gym and just have dinner and a snack when I get home. If I hit the gym pretty hard, this can throw me an extra 500-600 calories. There's just no way I can consume 800+ calories (calories saved from the day + calories burned off from exercise) before bedtime. If I eat too much and feel too full, I feel like throwing up - literally.

Also, I just bought myself a balance ball chair for my desk at work and being too full makes sitting on it REALLY uncomfortable. That, coupled with the fact that I tend to eat TONS of veggies/high fiber/protein foods means I feel full most of the day. And I drink copious amounts of water. SO really, some days I struggle with getting to 0.

I do struggle to hit my target calories because this all "consume your burn calories" doesn't make much sense to me... I have been trying to add more during the day but I still don't get close on most days, on the days I do is when I eat something unhealthy like pizza or french fries.

Nope...eating *enough* is certainly not my problem! But it is for my mom. She is a meal skipper. And has diabetes, so skipping meals gets her into TROUBLE. But she eventually found that she felt better and lost weight more easily when she ate all her calories..post menopause and all!

No you are not the only one! I could eat eat eat!:drinker:

I'm struggling to eat enough food period. With my workouts anywhere from 60 minutes to 2 hours (that will go up as summer approaches and more training) I have a ton of healthy food in the house. It's what I eat. It's how i've lost 130 pounds so far but I try and I try and I just can't eat the calories it says I should. By the time all my meals are done, I eat about 6 a day in snacks and meals etc. I am full and can't possibly eat anymore. I have like 2000 more calories it says I should eat. I've already had like 2200 today.

oh its for sure easy to grab a candy bar or a big mac and its over!!!! but it gets better with time :-)