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Other than actually gaining weight, what's your reason for 2.4K cals/day? I'd be planning on 1.8-2k cals/day (and in extreme circumstances one meal a day) unless I knew I had some serious physical work, like cutting/splitting wood (that I'm actually doing, but not everyday all day) from all the trees being damaged in the ice storm, but even then I'd keep it maxed at 2.2k cals/day for that.
I was actually hoping to lose a few pounds over the month. I calculated my TDEE at 2800ish. Since heating up food is going to require more work, no left overs in the microwave, frozen pizzas, etc, I expect I will be eating less. I suppose that depends on how many snack foods I buy. My plan was to buy enough food to provide for 2400 calories a day, I don't necessarly have to eat them all. I am already going to be way out of my comfort zone for my daily diet. I didn't see the wisdom of making that more worse by cutting 30% or more of my current calorie intake.