Just realized I’ve been eating likely only ~1000 cals a day for most of my life

A bit ridiculous it took me this long to catch on, I know. I’ve always just not been very hungry, and food for a long time was just something I handled at the end of the day with an average sized meal the majority of my adult life. As a kid, in my first household I snuck a lot of food to my dog since I was often averse to my only option, and then in the second household I just ate whatever from the pantry at night.

I’ve been into sports a long time, mainly swimming. But lately I’ve decided to get more into weightlifting, and over the past year I’ve been really trying to focus on slowly improving in basic self-care stuff. Taking daily meds, brushing teeth everyday, etc.

Logging each and every thing I ate was something I’ve meant to do for a while, as I understand a big part of my exercise routine I’m missing is eating enough. But since I already knew it was low to start out, I first have been slowly upping my intake as much as I can, even past discomfort sometimes.

Cue me finally deciding to add up my food for the day out of curiosity- I felt proud I had ate so much more than normal, and thought maybe I would have met the actual recommended amount.

My “a lot” was fucking 1350… Oof.

Not looking forward to how uncomfortable it’s probably going to be to push it even more than I did today. Nor am I sure how to do so. If anyone knows how to make oneself more hungry, I’m all ears.