New to 5:2 and have a question I didn’t see when I searched. My biggest struggle is eating enough calories. I don’t tend to be a hungry person and eat very clean which requires even more food to get to your daily goal of calories. Unfortunately I think that years of low calories has really had an effect on my metabolism and I’ve slowly gained 40 pounds over the last 8 years or so. When I tracked my calories for a few weeks I found that I always was around 4-600 a day. Maintaining my current exercise and upping my calories I have actually lost 18 pounds in the last 2 months. I am currently taking in 1200 calories most days and about 1600 on strength training days. When I do the calculator here it has me at 2200+ calories. I am terrified eating that many will make me gain weight. Should I slowly try to increase to that or just jump in and hope for the best? It more than doubles my current intake on my best days.