I feel like I often see people on this sub suggesting that you should round up when logging your calories and I'm here to make an argument against this.
I get it: You're not quite sure how much yogurt you had, so you estimate the best you can and then throw in some extra calories to hedge your bets. You figure that since you're trying to limit your calories and keep up your deficit, being wrong on your calorie count but in the LESS calories direction is good. After all, you're helping yourself lose the weight even faster, right?
The problem is that not eating enough calories makes you hungry. And being hungry leads to bad decisions or binges (or maybe for you those are one and the same). Losing out on an extra 50 calories during each meal of the day (four, for me: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks) could mean that you're 200 calories short on your foods for the day. 200 calories is an extra bowl of soup or a Luna Bar or quite a bit of cucumber and hummus. 200 calories is a pretty great little dessert treat to round out your evening. 200 calories is a pretty big hidden deficit and while losing weight fast can feel rewarding, it's harder to keep it up, day in and day out. It's even harder when you're thinking your deficit is less drastic than it really is. Much better to aim for 1200 calories and end up accidentally eating more at say 1300 calories (you accidentally under counted 25 calories a meal, for example) than thinking you're eating 1200 calories and only eating... 800 calories.
When I don't eat enough, I end up giving in to getting takeout and eating it all, or raiding the snack cabinet. Not eating enough is not good for overall long term health or long term diet sustainability and therefore weight loss.
There are exceptions and there always will be, but overall, make sure you're eating enough! Even when you're at a deficit, you need to eat. Try to count accurately so that you have room to eat more when you need to. Rounding up too much will make you perennially hungry and more likely to fail: Don't do that to yourself!
Anyways, that's my two cents. Good luck out there, losers!
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