I Call Bullsh*t
First things first, I hope that your relationship with food is not dictated by a black and white label.
If you are stuck in this pattern, please know that your body has your back and that there is another way. Secondly, this is not a debate about caloric specificity. I don’t ask my clients to think in terms of calories, and I certainly do not.
I’m not here to debate whether or not short humans or humans with less muscularity require less fuel.
That is not the point of this post.
AND
I am fired up about this.
Forever and ever and ever, health recommendations, celebrity menus in magazines (for those of us who remember those!), and pop marketing, particularly to womxm, have suggested that caloric restriction to some number that begins with the integer ONE is adequate. This happens in eating disorder treatment, too. If that is part of your story, I hear you and I see you.
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A few weeks ago, someone notified me about an influencer here, suggesting something similarly.
I call bullshit.
Your body needs a lot of food to function. Often it needs more than that to function optimally.
Almost always, this is more food than you’d expect.
If you’re old enough to read this, please let yourself eat. And instead of giving your favorite Instagram promoter of underfeeding props, perhaps unfollow instead. ✌️
