Excessively hungry? I don’t know, I was hungry and needed to eat and so I ate?Eat what you need.
maybe look up high calorie? There are a few threads.

I regularly ate 2200-2400 cals a day while losing the first 10-15 pounds. Even up to 3000 but not every day. Alcohol though....that stopped the train.


I’ve lost about 30 and at this point about 1700 -2000 cals seems to be the sweet spot. Mostly I find alcohol is the thing that makes the difference,
1700 including alcohol and I don’t lose. 2000 no alcohol, I lose.

I don’t actually count calories but the app I use does it automatically so I see it.

Hope this helps,,YMMV