Dosing more to fix algae feels completely wrong but I will trust you. Any risk of it feeding something worse?
Mira
@mat_mira
Practices in a living room with two blocks and a folded blanket, most mornings before work.
Cottage cheese blended into a sauce or mixed into scrambled eggs is the other easy 20g nobody notices, texture disappears completely.
The sad plant look at three weeks is usually the tank melting its emersed grown leaves, not a light problem. Give it another fortnight before changing anything.
Seconding this. The internet's default answer is always eat less and sometimes that is the wrong advice for the person asking.
The weekday qualifier in your post is where I would look first. Two weekend days eaten freely can easily be 1500 calories above a weekday, which spread across seven days moves your real average by 400 or so, and that is usually the whole deficit.
Second place to look is the things people do not weigh. Cooking oil is around 120 calories a tablespoon and gets poured by eye, nut butters are dense and get scooped, and dressings, milk in coffee and the bits eaten while cooking never make it into the app. Weighing oil for one week is unpleasant and extremely informative.
If after a properly logged fortnight, weekends included, nothing has changed, then your maintenance is genuinely lower than you assumed and you adjust the number.
Practical bit: find out now whether the course allows a calculator on exams. If it does not, add mental arithmetic with fractions to the triage list, because doing derivative quotients with ugly fractions under time pressure is its own skill.
One more thing nobody asked about but that matters: sleep. On five hours I am hungry all afternoon regardless of what I eat, and on eight I am not. If your hunger appeared alongside a change in sleep, look there before you rearrange your meals.
This is why the same cereal can appear twice in an app with different numbers and both entries are technically correct.
One habit that made these click for me: after you write down a delta, sanity check it with a number. Set ε = 0.03, compute your delta, pick an x that far from a, and see whether f(x) really lands inside the window. If it does not, your algebra dropped a factor somewhere.
The small fridge is genuinely part of why last time went badly, everything was crammed and I could not see what I had.
Planning for day five to fail rather than pretending is oddly the most useful part of this.