How do I meet my calorie goals????

Drink your calories. Juice, milk etc all have calories and can be good for you! Or choose healthy high calorie snacks like nuts. Good luck!

Try to eat breakfast everyday. Maybe a yogurt and a piece of fruit. Make a fruit smoothie if you have time, but get in the habit of starting your day right!

So you need to train your body to be open to eating a healthy amount of calories spread throughout the day. For whatever reason, (presumably due to prior eating habits), your body has decided it's just not that hungry. That doesn't mean it's right and that you shouldn't be eating more.

You say you want to do this without having to eat when you're not hungry, but that's not necessarily realistic. You just need to ease yourself into it.

EAT BREAKFAST. Start out small. One egg, a banana with peanut butter, etc. Aim for 100-150 calories at first, then up it to 200, then to 250, then 300... etc. Of course your body will rebel if you eat 500 calories in the morning all of a sudden, but if you slowly introduce the concept of eating a regular breakfast, your body will adjust. I've been there, done that, and now I regularly eat 300-500 calories every morning and am hungry again by lunch time.

Add "easy" calories to meals - it just requires some creativity. Ex - i spruce salads up with beans, meat/protein, seeds, nuts, avocados, dried fruit, etc. All healthy, but all fairly calorie-dense. A salad can easily be 300-500 healthy calories.

Don't be afraid to eat late-night snacks. As long as you're not eating anything that will cause indigestion, and you're not eating a feast right before bed (which may sit in your stomach a bit uncomfortably) you'll be fine. MANY people regularly eat late and it does not impact our weight loss. It's more or less a myth. I work out late, and often have post-workout snacks at 9, 10 pm.

Something that may help is to post a sample menu from a typical day. That way other members can give you advice on what you are choosing to eat. Sometimes I have a hard time getting in my calories on days I run because I burn a lot of calories. On those days, I'll eat a banana with peanut butter, higher in calories but still good for me, in addition to the rest of the foods I eat.

Also, I would recommend eating something small for breakfast instead of skipping it. You should be eating every 2-4 hours. Maybe have a bagel with lite cream cheese or an apple when you get up. That will also give you a metabolism boost for the day.

I am constantly eating throughout the day and I also eat after 7 because I exercise in the evening so sometimes I can't eat dinner until 7 or so.

Play around with it, it takes awhile to get that balance of eating healthy but getting enough calories in as well.

Good luck!

This is one of the issues I am facing too. Thanks for all of the good advice. I have been eating breakfast, but I am going to start adding a piece of fruit to go along with it. I don't usually snack a lot, but I'll give that a try too. I am finding that I exercise at night and my net calories go way down & I don't want to eat 200, 300 or even 400 calories before going to bed. I end up eating in the range of 1200-1400 calories, but with the exercise my net calories drop.