175 pounds today. I will do no exercise today.

I have found out that even though there are some days I overestimated calories. However in a large part, I have been underestimating calories. Assuming I have met my target, this means that I should be losing weight. This is due to sometimes not measuring out each food item, and using proxy entries from MFP. For example, I have to be more careful with using entries like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich from MFP for my PB&J sandwiches. I need to measure every item out that goes into my sandwiches. Also I will use my watch to determine calories burned from exersize, and then compare it with MFP. I am suspicious that something is wrong here. There is also items like remaining olive oil after I cook something. This includes determining how much milk evaporated when making oatmeal. I keep the milk at a moderate boil. Another problem is coming short of my target calories even though everything has been considered appropriately. This has happened every so often. I also need to weigh myself consistently from day to day. I do not know what I am going to do with restaurant meals. Starting today, I will follow my rules outlined above. Then I will see what happens.

What is interesting is that a good part of the time over the last month I am in the range of 177 to 178. So I had something going right for me. The reason for the recent losses is due to me coming short of my target weight for several days, even though everything considered. I cannot let this continue to happen when I am trying to stabilize my weight.