It seems contradictory but I've been finding that one high calorie meal makes it easier for me to stay on track for the whole day. Maybe it's because I can't cook and mostly eat premade type of grocery store food or things you don't have to make (granola bars, yogurt, frozen stuff) and these get boring quickly.

For instance today I worked out at 11am had a protein shake around 12:30 (335 cals), ate a protein bar at 230 (200 cals) and went to chipotle at 430 (bowl- double chicken, rice, cheese, queso - 800 cals). Total for the day is 1335 and I'm sitting here at 7pm absolutely stuffed from chipotle and happy that I ate something I liked.

Whereas most days I feel like I'm starving myself eating more frequently throughout the day but smaller things (nature valley bars, small snacks that don't fill me up etc). I guess I'm just trying to find my sweatspot, but the days like today where I can fill myself up with one filling fast food meal and still stay under 1500 just make me so much happier

(besides chipotle sometimes I'll do Popeyes Spicy chicken sandwhich -700cals, shake shack double cheeseburger -730 cals, mcondalds double hamburger and mchicken 750 cals together, Blaze simple pizza pie -660 cals, tacobell steak quesidillia and nacho dorito taco 690 cals together.)