@Tucson, One of the reasons I think about doing some more aggressive losing is just to get a bigger cushion so I won't be so conservative. It's purely a mental thing if my weight bounces above 164 and comes right back to it or under but it would bug me enough that I really don't want it to happen. I have not seen a weight above 164 in close to 2 weeks so I feel like I can say I have made goal without any reservation or qualification now. So I want to get a little bigger cushion so that I can give the maintenance level more of a legitimate test. Going up to 1900 without adding exercise calories is still substantially more than I was eating while slowly losing the last few pounds; that was at 1500, then 1600 for a while, then 1700 for a few days, never adding exercise calories.

I might hold off weighing again until Tuesday morning, after the procedure.

Today will probably end up closer to goal than I thought. I ate a couple of things late last night that aren't allowed during prep and rolled them into today. It's my wife's birthday, and tonight we will have crab legs, baked potatoes, fresh bread and a decadent chocolate cake. Assuming the cake isn't whole grain, it is allowed and so is the other stuff. I don't butter dip crab, so that's actually low cal, I won't eat the bread just in case the flour is course enough to be a problem, maybe half a potato with salt and pepper, but I will have some of that chocolate cake. My weekday candy treats are in my desk at work and I am not allowed my other common snacks, so I probably will not snack much today. I could end up having 1000 left for dinner, so maybe it won't get all that close. Not sure and with the upcoming near starvation days, I am not too worried.

EDIT - Yes, coffee counts. The diuretic effect is often overstated. You might count it at 80%. I know someone who never drinks water; coffee all morning and Coke the rest of the day/evening. Not the healthiest person I know; all the sugar (plus eating habits) has an effect on weight. But he stays hydrated enough with caffeine in every single thing he drinks.

EDIT again - now it's after lunch, I have about 7000 steps in, about to go for another walk that will put me well over 10k and have over 1100 calories left for tonight without adding in any exercise calories. I probably won't snack between now and dinner, but I might eat or drink something under 100 calories.