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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for all the tips.  When I was working with the nutritionist I kept a food log for 2 weeks.  She determined that I was eating about 1800 calories per day, which isn't even enough to maintain my current weight, she said.  She said I need to be eating 3000 calories per day in order to gain weight, but when I look at all the food that would take I get overwhelmed.  I have a small appetite, and overall eating is not an appealing activity (never has been).  I've never been a snacker so that's a hard habit to get into as well.  I understand a previous suggestion to eat more carbs, but that feels overwhelming to eat more bread or pasta with meals.  I will try to do that though.

Pre-Covid we ate out a ton, and that provided lots of extra calories (for instance lunch at Cheesecake Factory, I would skip breakfast and finish an entire entree on my own plus drink two sodas, I'm sure that was around 2000 calories right there).  Eating out so much plus all the soda helped me stay at a good weight for me (125) and I didn't look too thin.  These days though we rarely eat out and I don't drink soda anymore, so that accounts for a lack of calories.

Today for breakfast I ate 2 eggs sauteed in butter, an avocado, and two slices of toast with butter.  That will fill me up until probably 7 pm, I won't have any appetite for snacking.  I can't eat when I'm not hungry, that makes me feel nauseous.  Then I'll have a later dinner, probably tacos--meat, beans, avocado, tomato, salsa.  And probably 2 cookies for dessert.  That's probably around 1800 calories for the day.  I don't know how to have more of an appetite.  I do drink a lot of calories--will drink juice all day but I can't do smoothies due to lactose intolerance issues.[/quote]

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