It has been a struggle to eat enough and get 2300 calories every day but my appetite is finally picking up and I didn't have to force feed myself yesterday! I was also able to get in more calories Monday by making a personal size pizza late at night and here are my calories so far this week:
Saturday - 2512Sunday - 2069
Monday - 2289
Tuesday - 2280
My 4-day average is 2288 calories so far, so, very close to my goal. I just have 3 more days of eating at maintenance until I start my 3-week deficit. I was looking forward to my deficit because I was so full and force feeding to try and get in my maintenance calories but something shifted last night and I ate and was still hungry and today I'm pretty hungry, so I guess my body is leveling out like the science said it would - pretty interesting huh!? I never thought I'd be hungry at 2300 calories and it took me 10 days for that to happen, good to know for future reference. I don't see any struggle getting in my calories today.
To eat this amount of food for 10 days is quite a feat for me and to see how far I've come from my only eating 900-1300 calories a little over a year ago. I gradually worked up and lost weight and now the true test of reaching maintenance is here and I'm ok!! I didn't turn into a whale and things are right in line with what they should be with increased food.
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