I knew I had gone a long way when I hit that high number of eating and on a regular basis I was still hungry. When you first increase your calories (after restricting for a while) you may expeirence this: Don't think you can eat all that food, you feel kind of stuffed, find yourself not really wanting to top off your numbers you had planned to eat. When that happened I used some healthy concentrated calorie foods to help boost macros and not feel stuffed. (cut out some of the low fat and use real oils, fats, cheese, nuts, peanutbutter and an extra serving of carbs) I gained about 10 lbs but that was over about 9 months time with the sharpest increases after a holiday/vacation. After a while you get used to the volume and you will even start to notice your hunger increase on some days (for me it was legs and any other heavy day, not so much for cardio) At this point I really tried to make sure my calories were cleaner and I was getting 25grams of fiber and no more than 75 grams of sugar so that I knew the hunger was increased metabolism and not just unwise food choices leaving me hungry. I ended my reset phase at Christmas so it was a bit of a free for all in the end, not really what I planned but by then my MIND was heald and I have no regrets about that. It's worth noting that when I started the cut cycle and got measured my numbers indicated that a good portion of the 10 lbs has been muscle increase from finally feeding myself. I think it's hard to wrap your mind around. It helped me to eat cleaner mostly, so I could feel better about feeding my self good nutrition when I saw the scale increase rather than worrying about what I was doing to screw things up.