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My suggestion when you "need" to add more calories to your diet: Make your own vegetable soup and stock your body with lots of great nutrients. My soup keeps in the fridge 4 days, after which I'm ready for something else for a while.

In the past, I never counted vegetable calories - just thought they were so insignificant they should be free. But after using my fitness pal to track, I found that my "free" vegetable soup was about 200 cals per serving! But that's OK - I like to think that all those phytonutrients will make my metabolism work even better!

I love going to the farmer's market on the weekend, then coming home and chopping for an hour. I use the boxed vegetable broth or mushroom broth and then add zucchini, carrots, onions or leeks, celery, cabbage or spinach, red pepper, hot peppers, corn, peas etc. I sometimes add in brown rice or whole wheat pasta and red or black beans - you can be creative! Add Pappy's seasoning or Mrs Dash, thyme or cilantro, garlic or ginger - make it different every time! For a different consistency, take half the pot of soup and puree it in a blender, then add it back to your pot. It makes it really rich-tasting.

Good luck - I hope this (or someone else's suggestion) helps!

You never said what you were snacking on or exactly how often. If you're only eating twice a day at 1500 calories, your weight loss may be slowing down because your body goes too long between meals and thinks you're starving so it clings to every calorie you do give it, SLOWING down your metabolism.
Every 2 1/2-3 hours eat SOMETHING small. Your metabolism will start burning like crazy and turn you into a fat burning machine! Keep it healthy though, try fresh fruit, fruit in a cup, 10-12 almonds, a few whole wheat crackers with peanut butter, small container of cottage cheese, yogurt, a few crackers with cheese, carrot sticks (boring, but good for you), small protein shake, slice of whole wheat toast with thin layer of PB (yes, there's good for you- fiber in there), berries, you can never get enough fruits and veggies- but aim for ones with high fiber or vitamins.
If you're eating bigger meals or calorie denser meals at your current 2 meals a day, eat half at your regular time and half a couple hours later. Ever notice that skinny people seem to eat all the time? Exactly! You give gas to an engine, it revs up, you don't give it any, it putters out and dies. Don't eat just to increase your calories, eat to fuel your body. Rev your fat burning engine. Give it the right kind of fuel though, looks like you're doing good on your weight loss, you can still eat often without increasing your calories. You may not be getting hungry because your body has gotten used to not eating often and thus your metabolism has slowed down. If you get used to eating like I recommended and you do skip the little meals, your body will definitely let you know.
Hope this helps, let me know how it goes.

leanmass24, Sounds like you're doing pretty good overall. If you're not sluggish at the gym (or otherwise), and don't feel like you're starving frequently, I wouldn't worry too much about being under your total goal for calorie count. You can add some nuts (like you said) peanut butter, whole wheat breads & pastas. Get the low sodium canned veges, and watch diet sodas, no calories, but loaded with sodium you'd be better getting elsewhere. Another comment you made in another post said something about gaining weight one day- if you are lifting weights, your muscle fiber holds more water during the the recovery and rebuild phase - so probably just water weight. My weight fluctuates as much as 3-4 pounds from day to day sometimes, depending on water intake and how intense my workouts are.

hope this helps a little