Forced into Maintenance

On April 31, I had my first wedding dress fitting. At the time, I weighed 185.4 pounds. I convinced the seamstress to take in my dress a little more than she already had to so that I could lose a little more weight in the five weeks between fittings. She agreed, though she was obviously skeptical that I'd actually lose the weight. She said I needed to lose 8-10 pounds to make up the difference. Here I am, three days before my next fitting, and I weigh 175 pounds. I've maxed out my "allowable" weight loss, and now I need to maintain this weight until my wedding on May 28.

I am terrified.

I joined MFP on December 28, 2010. I've never missed a day of logging in (as of yesterday, my count is 125 days). In that time, I've lost 48 pounds and really made eating healthy and exercising a priority in my life. I've largely been on a 2-pound/week, 1,200 calorie plan (eating back the vast majority of my exercise calories), with some time on a 1 or 1.5-pound/week plan as I got closer to final dress weight. The prospect of eating 2,050 calories each day is just crazy to me, especially because I don't want to stop working out and I firmly believe in eating my exercise calories. I feel like I don't know how to eat that much without snacking on crap. I don't want to revert back to my old ways of stuffing my face just because things taste good. Just like I needed to learn how to eat healthily on a deficit, I now need to learn how to eat healthily in maintenance.

Here's my plan:
-I will continue to log my food on MFP.
-I will cut back my gym trips from 5-6 days/week to 3-4 days/week.
-I will load up my kitchen with healthy, calorie-dense foods (suggestions appreciated).
-I will eat more at breakfast and lunch so I'm not eating the bulk of my new calories at the end of the day.
-I will reward myself with a trip to Five Guys with my fiance. He's lost 50 pounds, hit his goal weight, and is also in maintenance.
-I will rock my dress and enjoy every second of my wedding day.
-I will have a blast on my honeymoon in Athens.
-Starting 6/8/11, I will be back on a deficit and be ready to lose those last 20 pounds before my 25th birthday on 9/1/11.

Thank you to the MFP community, and especially my friends, for all of your support and guidance over the last four months. I know that you will all continue to be invaluable to me as I enter into this new phase of my journey.