2800 calories for 6' maintenance... really.
I don't know exactly how maintenance calories are set by of course they vary from people to people in terms of general size, muscle mass on the body, activity level, metabolism, genetics ect... There is nothing wrong with me. My body is constantly hot as hell. It's like i'm on clen 24/7 and in the gym I sweat like insanity. So it is what it is, I do wish it was lower calories, things would be better, but there isn't much I can do.
Ur calories are so low. Isn't female maintenance calories about 2000..? I don't even think ur mostly muscle mass, 200 lbs of fat alone isn't going to require same calories as 200lbs of muscle I'm sure. Maybe ur work out method isn't set for intensity, thats what burns calories the most.
Why do u keep preaching non-junk food. U don't have anything to stand for. Your transformation picture was good from stage 1 fat to stage 2 semi-fit. Anything after that has not been improved in much of any way. Just diff angles and diff lightening, but same thing.
I'm not expert on anything here, but I have tried to give u advice to get bigger. It WILL come at a cost of putting on BF too and not looking top dog for a good set amount of months, but the reward is at the end of the trail. So i'll repeat for the 20th time:
-Eat MORE and worry LESS about BF and how clean the food is, get ur protein in at the min req and get ur fiber in for health, Fill the rest to grow anyway possible. I personally don't suggest taking in the most of ur calories in g's of dietary fat though.
-Raise ur intensity in the gym in terms of drop sets or Pyramid sets Up. For example here is a biceps exercise:
Hammer curls using the rope on cable machine: Set 1 to failure, wait 5 seconds do it again, wait 5 seconds go it again. Then Raise weight and repeat for sets 2,3 and maybe 4.
Thats high intensity where the burn is felt like crazy.
For heavier exercises like flat bench I'd use dog crap style. I do more than is needed, but ex: 225 to fail, 30 sec, 225 to fail, 30 sec, 225 to fail. Done
-U need to track ur stuff too, make sure weight is going up every week or set for the variable change by adding in more calories, decreasing some drop sets ect..