A couple of things I should always keep in mind:
- People who don’t have an eating disorder never feel the need of “saving calories for later”.
- People who don’t have an eating disorder don’t count calories, or macros.
- People who don’t have an eating disorder don’t care about “liquid calories”.
- Even if anything over 2500 calories may seem like a quite high intake for someone who has/had an eating disorder, most people eat way more than that every day and maintain their weight.
- The BMI index is completely useless. The only “healthy weight” is the weight you maintain when you stop controlling your intake, listen to your body and follow your hunger cues and preferences.
- Diets don’t work.
- Whoever decided that a 1200 calories intake was healthy should be punished by living off on 1200 calories for the rest of their life.
- Food is just food. It is great, and it keeps us alive, but it shouldn’t be given any further meaning.
- One person’s worth should not be determined by their food or exercise choices.
- There is no thing as a “perfect body”. People obviously have personal preferences, but as long as you body keeps you alive, then you already have the perfect body.