I'm not going to sit here and tell you how many calories you should eat because that's entirely dependent on a host of factors to which I don't have access. The Errors of One-Size-Fits-All Dieting Advice It's nothing more than a virtue signal to overcorrect for the mistakes historically made by public figures pushing dangerous dieting fads on young women. Here's the problem – none of this advice is scientifically accurate. "1,200 calories isn't enough for an adult human" is one I see proclaimed unbelievably frequently. Why, then, do so-called experts with education in nutrition insist on speaking in absolutes? The number of times I've come across influencer videos or even fitness trainers I know who post propaganda trying to scare women out of eating calories that are proportional to their BMR is disheartening. An amount that is perfectly healthy for my height and weight, by the way. As a 5'2" woman, I maintain my weight at around 1,450 calories, so if I want to lose a few pounds after going on vacation or eating a lot over the holidays, it's back to 1,200 calories I go.
I ate 1,200 calories per day for several months a few years back and lost a significant amount of weight without feeling deprived or exhausted, as these articles describe.
Sure, 1,200 calories are far too low for many people, particularly those with high basal metabolic rates (BMRs), but certainly not for all of them. Of course, this is a ridiculous generalization. Countless articles detail, in passive-aggressive language, how 1,200 calories are "only suitable for a child or a dog" and "is barely enough to keep you alive" and supposedly makes you feel lethargic, ravenous, and miserable. The Diet and Fitness Community Has Lost the PlotĪ quick search for "1,200 calorie diets" on Google or YouTube would lead you to believe that eating 1,200 calories is equivocal to anorexia. It's incumbent on us to dispel this myth once and for all. One of the most devious is that 1,200-calorie diets are starvation diets.
You can be a licensed nutritionist or dietician and give blatantly wrong and harmful advice.
However, it's led to a dogmatic system of beliefs in the fitness and nutrition community, transparently dominated by people with histories of eating disorders who project their poor relationship with food onto others. If you want to believe that you can be healthy at any size wrongly, well, that's your business. Still, society has become obsessed with validating larger women at the expense of their health, truth, and science. Most of these are opinions about aesthetics, which vary among individuals. Big is beautiful, healthy at any size, and thick thighs save lives.
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