Struggles with Food Intake

I'm going to be totally honest with you. I always am. The one thing I struggle with most... is my food intake. I know I'm not alone here! It's hard for a lot of women to understand how to eat properly for their goals. Even online coaches, like me, need direction from others. I'm so good at telling all of you how to eat for your goals, but at times I fall short when it comes to myself. I've never had a very big appetite. And for me, I need to eat a pretty high amount of protein in order to keep on muscle. So when it comes to carbs, I've never had a problem keeping them around 150g or so (protein keeps me full!). Well, my goals right now are to put on as much muscle as possible while increasing my strength AND building up my metabolism (so when I have to cut for my next show, I won't be eating incredibly low cals). Knowing that I need to up my carb intake, I finally sought out some help from others about how much I should really be eating. And I finally just took the plunge and made a change. I didn't reverse diet, or slowly add in food, I basically just changed my diet over night lol. Some may say that's wrong, but for me, I just need to go for it. I needed to dive in and have a plan, and that's that. Reverse dieting or easing into my higher carb diet honestly would have probably failed for me, cuz I wouldn't have followed it. I'm human and I get scared/anxious when it comes to change. But I finally built up the courage to say OK LET'S DO THIS because my dreams and goals motivate the hell out of me and make me realize that I gotta do things I don't want to do (or don't feel comfortable with doing) to reach my goals. And even if it's scary, sometimes you just have to take the plunge. So I did. And I feel awesome. This is the most I've ever eaten in an off-season, and my workouts are incredible, I feel great, and I see some awesome changes in my body already. I'm 5'5"ish and weigh 131lbs right now. Since I upped my carbs, I've actually lost a pound. Anyways, moral of the story here: I'm scared to change and scared to go out of my comfort zone at times, but the only way to get better and be better, is to get uncomfortable, have a plan (and trust it!!), and do what you gotta do!