I am an early bird, but Anna is a night owl. It's not the best recipe for good chemistry.

Does your friend get things from junk stores that become art/craft projects?

Accurate tracking is good. It's helping develop my guess-timation skill for those times when I cannot know my calorie count, as with restaurant food. It helps me control my urge to overeat.

When your friend is here, and you aren't counting calories, you will eat about the amount you want to eat each day. If you want to keep it down to your diet goal, you will. However, occasionally it's OK to break the rules for a day or two.

@EdEarl Schedule issues can be challenging. I don't know anyone (in person) who keeps the kind of schedule I do. There are plenty of us delayed sleepers but none I'm acquainted with.
My friend and I both like getting junk to up-cycle into something new. Last time she was here we traveled to a big resale shop, only open weekends and I got a half dozen old "church keys" which I plan to use as the dangles on a wind chime. I like making wind chimes out of a variety of things. Made some from silverware, Christmas ornaments, kitchen utensils and such.

Not tracking real well all the time this week but kind of keeping track of what goes in. Today was better, eating "keto" type foods, better for her than me as she does more carb limiting than I do. Not bad calorie wise either. Tomorrow won't be low however, in fact may zoom. When she comes to visit, a "tradition" is to have brunch at the Town and Country Kitchen here in town and they make THE BEST BISCUITS AND GRAVY! Although I am not willing to forgo getting this dish, I will skip eating all of it tomorrow. It is good warmed up the next day so will bring half at least home to eat later. That will be my big splurge for a while. Will let you know how it all settles out after she has left.

If you ever want to figure calories on something like your soup, I've found this site to be good for doing that:
[fitwatch.com]
You enter the food, it gives you choices on type and sometime portion type ( like oz, cup, etc) then enter how much you used. It collects all the ingredients and divides by the number of servings you indicate and tells you what one serving has for calories and a number of other nutrients and even salt, sugar, fat and carbs, if you count any of those. I love this tool, maybe it would be helpful to you, too.

@DotLewis I believe that soup, which has no added fat or sugar, has few enough calories a person can eat any amount of it and loose weight. In fact, my doctor says that a person can eat as much rice as they want, and loose weight, but I'm doubtful. However, that soup has fewer calories than rice, and I'm convinced I cannot eat enough of it to gain weight, or even maintain my current weight. However, my consumption is limited by hunger being satisfied with a cup or less of it when eaten with a cup of rice, noodles, potato, etc.