I'm not saying you're lying. I'm saying you're mistaken I'm saying it's harder to count accurately over days than you think. If you think you're counting, but you're not actually documenting, it's too easy to see what you want to believe; especially if it confirms something remarkable about yourself; especially if you've already spoken to people about it. That's just how the human mind works.
One indication is, where do you find a five pound bag of sugar? I haven't seen one at the grocery store in three years. The bags I find now are all four pounds. That alone suggests that there's some inaccuracy to what you're claiming.
For example of how difficult it is, estimates I've made of my spending turn out to be far lower than I find when I'm keeping track of it on a spreadsheet. Everyone experiences that. And always I make the error on the low side. I want to think I'm being disciplined.
I put away maybe 8 pounds of crystalized sugar per year. (That's an estimate, not documented. That's sugar bought at the store that I add to foods directly). That's not my dieting or being disciplined, either. That's just a measure of my sweet tooth. I don't like that much sugar.
It turns out when I check that the average person in the US consumes 2.5-3 pounds of sugar a week. More than I would have thought. But that's all types of sugars, from all sources. That's not five pounds of added sugar on top of the amounts already in foods.
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