Not necessarily, as a general rule, yes. I know I'm the exception, but I've continual need to add as I go because my exercise keeps increasing.
I think that it would help a lot to post what you are eating (foods and cals). I total understand if you don't want to do that, I was very hesitant, but the responses were amazing and it really opened my eyes that the foods I was choosing were not as good as the could have been and hence why I was so hungry.|||Here are two typical days menus, the first complete with snacks
Menu one
Breakfast
1 large hard boiled egg 80
1 slice Arnold oatnut bread, toasted 120
half tablespoon peanut butter 50
half tablespoon jam 20
2 cups coffee with half tablespoon half and half in each 40
total calories 310
Morning snack
1 container Greek yogurt 140
1 medium banana 100
total calories 240
Lunch
Black bean veggie burger 100
1 slice fat free cheddar cheese 25
Whole wheat roll 200
1 cup baby carrots 90
total calories 415
Afternoon snack
2 graham crackers (2 whole sheets) 120
half tablespoon nutella 50
total calories 170
Dinner
4 ounces top round steak, broiled 320
medium plain baked potato 150
1 cup broccoli 30
total calories 500
Before bed
3 squares Cadburry dark chocolate 80
total calories for the day 1885 (too much!!!)
Menu Two
Breakfast
two eggs scrambled in one tsp butter 200
1 slice Arnold oatmeal bread toasted 120
half tablespoon jam 20
2 cups coffee with half tablespoon half and half in each 40
total calories 380
Lunch
half cup brown rice 150
1 chicken leg, skin removed 140
1 clementine 30
total calories 420