Okay, okay I give. These guys are right.
It isn't enough information for us to say specifically and 4k might be too many but only if you don't want to get up to a healthier weight. I think it is very clear that you are under-eating and now that I learn you are a former heavy person it makes it even more clear. You do need to find out what your maintenance cals are at the very least. I said 4k because it is obvious to me that you could use to put on some pounds and if you are going to continue to lift and do cardio the 4K would do that for you. Actually I doubt you could make it to 4K but the point is that you eat as much as you can and then jam more in there in order to gain. You can put on muscle as opposed to fat if you eat A LOT and lift HEAVY. If all you want to do is maintain than find your maintanence by eating more until you start to gain a bit then cut back.
Don't worry about getting FAT again. Just eat and eat very cleanly. Pick your macros or have your nutritionist help you to pick them. It is nearly impossible to accidently get fat if you are eating cleanly and monitoring your progress.
I am a former heavy person and also a former under eater. I did 1400 cals a day for a year and a half or more. I am sure my body was in some sort of disarray too when I started to turn it around. I was able to turn it around only by dropping my fear of being fat and learning how to eat. I learned how to eat by picking a ratio for my macros and then eating within those macros and upping my calories a few hundred every couple of weeks. Over time I learned about carbs and fats and other finer points of good eating. At first it felt like crap to eat so much but after a few weeks it feels normal and hunger comes again and that was my trigger to up cals again.
I burn cals today at a rate of about 2370 a day. This is obviously up significantly from where I was when I was eating just 1400 cals a day. I am also 10 lbs heavier but yet I look better than I did before.
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