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Wait a minute...you work out every day? What sort of workouts are we talking about here?
As far as the starvation mode is concerned, she's probably right. That weight gain was probably moving you towards an equilibrium and might have even been mainly water weight anyway. Gaining 15 lbs. of fat would be a difficult matter in 3 weeks. Water, on the other hand, is easily gained when your body is depleted of carbohydrates (glycogen and blood glucose).
Most men shouldn't drop their calories much below 2,000 over the long term, unless they're tiny or a senior.
I don't mean to preach to you but it sounds like you're exercising too much (i.e. overtraining) and your appetite could be stress related as a result. I mean, I'm an 11:00 first-lunch eater myself, but what you described must have more than one cause.
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