Sure, if you want to stall early and make no progress. You have to eat more to lift more. Doesn't mean you have to go full NFL Combine mode and eat 7000+ calo

Sure, if you want to stall early and make no progress. You have to eat more to lift more. Doesn't mean you have to go full NFL Combine mode and eat 7000+ calories/day. But 1800 cals/day won't cut it (unless you are trying to cut weight, wherein progress will stall for a while).