Day 289: 268 lbs

I gained a pound since yesterday, and went over my quota of 1,500 calories by about 500 calories.

The going-over was because my family decided at the last minute to go out for dinner, and I hadn't saved enough calories.

Of greater concern is that my weight truly does seem to be stuck. If I actually am consuming only 1,500 calories a day, then there's almost no way for me to not lose weight over a two-week period. Now, it could be that I've just been retaining a lot of water.

The more likely explanation is that I'm not doing as good a job of sticking to my diet as I thought. I am somehow systematically undercounting my daily calories. As I've discovered before, this is very easy to do, even unconsciously.