Has anyone else found that what they thought was far too many calories in a day was actually well below their deficit?

Hi everyone,

I'm about 2 months in to my weight loss journey, and last week I began taking counting calories seriously. Before this week I would on an average day have two slices of toast with butter (or maybe a toastie or a small roll) for breakfast, and then something like two chicken chargrills and a regular serving of chips for tea (I might have some small snacks as well during the day).

I thought that this was still way over/pushing my calories for the day, but when I actually downloaded my fitness pal I found out that this was only around 6-800 cals a day, nearly 1000 calories under a healthy deficit to reach my goal weight (126lbs from 160 ish).

My question is, how do you eat 1500 calories a day without feeling like you're just making up the numbers/actually putting on weight? There are some days where I hit this number (or close enough to it), but others I can't shake the feeling I'm eating for the sake of eating.

Thanks in advance.

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