I just slowly upped my kcal. Like maybe 50-100 a day for a week then another 50-100 kcal a day the next week and so on until I was at maintenance kcal. I continued to lose while doing that. Then I dropped back down a bit to say 1200-1300 for the last few weeks to get to goal. I think I topped out at 1600 kcal when I raised them. It worked for me.