@UpDownAround: I understand your position. I my weight pops up unexpectantly, I would be nervous too, actually rather paranoid. This is true for either direction, weight gain, or weight loss. But I am more concerned about losing weight. BTW You do have more discipline than I do.

Well, I have something to be a bit paranoid about. I have started losing weight again. I am down to 175. I normally would not believe this but two of my scales concur, and one scale showing only a pound more. I have gone over some of the history of my daily food diary. Every now and again, there can be a couple days in a row that I undershoot my calorie goal. When this happens, it is when I eat about 1800 calories. However, a great majority of time, I at least meet the goal of 2100 to 2300 calories. There are still a number of days that I score over 2300 calories.

It appears that my body responds well to exersize, perhaps actually too well. I am going to have to more carefully monitor my calories. Right now I will consistently eat above 2150 every day, with nothing below this number. What is interesting is this weight loss has happened even when I added on calories burned during exersize. This is what has caused some of the days to be over 2300 calories. I will continue to add in these expended calories, making sure I eat enough calories to offset most of the calories that I have burned for the day. Then I will re-evaluate a week from now. I think consistency is the key here.