I tend to err too much on the side of caution and eat so little it is unhealthy when I am not tracking. I was a few weeks into my diet before I started tracking and at first I did not change what/how I was eating, just started tracking to see the numbers. I was under 1000 pretty much every day, which is not enough. Now I am **** about it. I weigh every thing I can to the gram or tenth of an ounce. Last night I had 100 grams of vanilla ice cream with 14 grams of pecans. That was 306 calories; no guesswork. It was also quite tasty.