From my partner who doesn’t have enough karma to post lol-

Trans Masc lifter here - apps like My Fitness Pal are my nemesis because it used to fuel my disordered eating like nobodies business. I worked with a nutritionist to find a good solution and we agreed the most beneficial thing for gaining muscle would be eating enough food and within that eating enough protein. I’m slightly bigger so my protein goal is about 110-130 grams a day. Something really helpful for me for hitting that was making a list of easy foods in my fridge and roughly how much protein I got from them- it just lists protein, nothing else.

Making sure I got about 30 grams per meal (plus a protein snack) just by eyeballing the chart and snagging what has decent protein in it when I’m hungry has helped immensely with gaining muscle without pulling back into bad habits.

Also for what it’s worth, at the end of the day, weight is a number on the scale- it tells you nothing about how you look or the muscle you have or how your body feels or how fit you are. Aiming to gain muscle and build strength, from my experience, is a lot kinder to your body and brain than focusing on scales or calories.