SumoSized:
I try to do a minimum of 800 calories per meal (more if I can), and then snack for a few hundred more calories throughout the day. And I usually end off the day eating around 3,500 or so. I just get really full after each meal and I feel like I have to force myself to eat snacks in between meals
Morbidly A Beast:
Don’t take this the wrong way but I think you might be pushing yourself to hard each meal, you should try to eat more with your eyes, granted you might end up eating less but your tummy and appetite will be larger, there’s times where I might have 1 meal a day with more snacks or light meals.
This is just an aside but I wonder how I even ended up fat tbh I never counted a calorie, are some people just naturally more gluttonous than others?
I'll definitely have to give that a try, I think I, like a lot of others on this site see other people's gains and try to replicate them, and start to feel like failures when we don't get the same results because all of our bodies are different and process food differently.
And to answer your aside, you probably just have a slower metabolism and so you didn't have to try as hard to get the results you wanted. I know in the fitness community they use the term hard gainer to refer to people who struggle to put on muscle and honestly it works the same with fat. (Though funnily enough I'm not a hard gainer when it comes to putting on muscle, but I am when it comes to fat)
