2,000 calories may be a good estimate for how much the average person should eat, but not for me. I need a surplus. 
Bitter experience has taught me that I need to be eating far more than that to gain anything. The scale hardly starts moving until I'm over 3,000 calories a day. And that's a lot of food. 

So I need to do two things: eat hard, and eat smart. 
Eating hard means eating frequently and as much as is comfortable. It really is hard work. Sometimes I just want to relax and fast for a day， or eat nothing but celery sticks. But nothing was ever accomplished by giving up. 

Passover is terrible for gaining weight. Here's a picture showing my terrible weight gain results in the past week, as well as some other periods of failure. 

So why is this Jewish holiday so weight unfriendly?