I don't particularly have a very clean diet, but it's pretty high energy. According to my watch I'd average 3200 cals a day (fairly active, riding most days, gym on alternate and/or running). I just ate at the same rate I would maintenance. It was flipping hot and I was in a stinky cast, I just sat there on the couch with full air con. My base calories went from about 2600 per day normal (not focused exercise) to about 2k. But i was eating for a 3.2k cal day.Yeah it's dumb but it is what it is.
Would go something like:
10am - coffee, 2 hardboiled eggs, cake slice (during my injury I couldn't cook or make coffee so it was a full cafe brekky)
1pm - massive lunch, coke
2pm coffee, cake or chocs
4pm - snack of some sort
6pm light dinner with kids, like roast with veg or normal dinner stuff
10pm - get hungry again (usually after workout) and something like instant noodles to kfc bucket lol.
10.30 something sweet to follow - it's my kryptonite.
Yeah plenty to cut, not gonna lie. But I was a miserable sucker and more importantly bored out of my brains.