I have seen it recommended somewhere that if you are nervous up your calories 250 a week until you are stable. It is possible that your maintenance is lower NOW. But that will change. I was eating 1500 cals and my maintenance is 2500-2600. I would have never believed it. I did the workouts and I wanted to eat my arm off. I didn't and I was not losing very well. I have been slowly upping the cals and finally something is coming off!
If you are nervous do your workouts up the cals a little at a time and see what happens. I can understand freaking out a gain after losing all that weight. You just haven't found a sweet spot for keeping it off yet.
I have found if I over eat on a weekend, where I used to put on pounds, now I gain water and it is gone in a couple of days! I am no longer freaked out. But in order not to freak out, you need a history of good things happening and that will take time and faith.
Read some of these logs around January when a bunch of people started. You will find out, everyone freaked out about this and are finally okay with it. It is odd, it is weird, it is AWESOME not to starve!
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