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Originally Posted by Pawnmower
the difference between gaining and losing weight weekly is a pretty thin margin...literally just drinking one soda/beer less and eating 1 slice of bread less every day can mean the difference between losing or gaining weight weekly...
1 piece of bread is like 100 calories.....
1 pint of beer can be 250 or 300 calories
1 soda, probably 200 or 300
a lot of people (and I was one of them) do not realize they are eating more calories than they burn every day...and even if youre a LITTLE BIT off , it means you constantly gain instead of maintain or lose...
its REALLY hard to estimate (for me anyway)....so i simply have to keep track or I go over too much.
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I totally agree. It wasn't until I started to really track down to tablespoons of BBQ sauce or whatever that I realized how bad I was at estimating how much I was eating per day.... and once I started looking at a 500 calorie deficit/day, I didn't realize 1) how excessive my eating habits were, and 2) how relatively little food I could survive on.
And when I don't track, I tend to fudge a little here and there, so it keeps me honest, or at least in the ballpark.