Stomach issues during and after weight loss.. looking for some advice!

I've lost about 80 lbs in the last six months (give or take a week). I started out at 'obese' and I'm now at 'normal' weight. This is amazing, I love how I feel right now and what I can do physically compared to half a year ago. There is one thing that is giving me troubles though, and that is my stomach region.

When I was still overweight, I had heartburn issues. Those disappeared completely at some point when I lost about 40 lbs, I never really noticed it until I hadn't had it for a while and I was surprised at that. I haven't had those issues since, which is a blessing!

During my journey I had constipation issues which gave me such discomfort I had trouble walking at some point, and I fixed those with an increase in fiber and a little pharmaceutical assistance. Those issues have all but disappeared, and it is very rare that they pop up again.

Now, as I have effectively switched to maintenance, I have a completely new set of issues. My stomach tells me, very very clearly, when I need to eat. As it should, but quite incessantly. To the point where it hurts. Then after I've eaten, it hurts again! As if I ate too much but even when it was just a sandwich or something. So it's damned if I do and damned if I don't! And don't even get me started about dinner; even a normal plate of veggies, meat and carbs (the normal diet around these parts) gives me discomfort, again as if I ate way, way too much!

At this point I don't even know what to do anymore.

My regular eating pattern during any given day:

• Coffee in the morning, to wake me up. I usually skip breakfast, but if I have some, it's a sandwich or two at around 10AM.
• Lunch, depending on whether or not I had breakfast. Sometimes I skip lunch entirely and eat nothing until dinner, but if I have lunch it will likely be a sandwich or some leftovers from the day before. I've also been known to murder a salad.
• Dinner, usually around 5PM. A regular plate of veggies, meat and carbs in any sort of combination.
• Then at night I may have a light snack and sometimes an alcoholic beverage.
• My TDEE is about 2300 and I am active enough to burn about 500 calories a day on top of that, so it's not like I'm over eating (I have a calorie tracking app).

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