How many calories are you eating per day to lose weight? maintain? Please note your height.
I cannot go over 1200 cal a day without gaining! I am baffled by this because I am very active and have quite a bit of weight left to lose, but I'm hungry. There are days when I burn more calories through exercise than I consume and still gain. I was looking at Canada's food guide (idk, if many of you are Canadian, but anyhoo, I'm sure the US has some sort of similar standard recommendation). You can google this if you're interested, but it recommends a crap ton of food per day (6-7 servings of grain products OMG!)
The amount of food they recommend someone can eat is absurd! I currently eat 4-5 servings of fruits/veggies a day, 1-2 grains, 0-2 dairy, and 2-3 protein. I eat about half of what this food guide recommends. It varies, but almost always under 1200 calories-otherwise I gain! I had an individual pizza a few days ago, and went to 1600cal that day and gained almost 5lbs and it's been days and it hasn't come off yet (so not water/salt retention).
That was a bit of a rant, but the mathematics of weight loss are just not working for me!