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TIL, thanks for this insight -- where did you find this rule of thumb?



I don't remember. I was obese and started having some joint issues and visage fat, so i bought a scale, calculated my BMI, found roughly 34, then tried and failed my first attempt at calories limitations. Then I really prepared for a true diet, spend months informing myself, got used to hunger by fasting for 5 days, and got my weight under control. It's during that time that I learned about that. It might have been on a HAES forum before they went crazy (circa 2017 it was mostly support (and a dating site tbh), and a view of 'if you don't have health issues, do not hurt yourself trying to loose weight'. Now, from a more external POV, it seems it changed toward 'it's okay even if your health struggle')




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