Tess Holiday reveals she is anorexic (don't click if easily triggered)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think that you can become that obese without an eating disorder. I'm not sure if Anorexia is the right word for it though. Obese people tend to binge on food and then go on extreme diets. I think that is fundamentally different from an anorexic who has issues with perfectionism. Just throwing that out there, American Psychology Association. For free.

Actually, you can. Imagine eating an extra slice of pizza or dessert every day— so 500 calories more than your body needs to maintain the same weight. It’s not binging, but it adds up over time. On top of that, many people who lose substantial amounts of weight need fewer calories to maintain that weight vs someone of the same weight who has never lost substantial weight. So, as an example, a formerly obese person might maintain a weight of 1XX pounds on 1200 calories while someone who has never been obese might maintain the same weight on, say 1600 calories. So the formerly obese person can regain weight very quickly on what objectively might be a fairly standard diet, or even on a relatively restricted diet.

If you look at a calorie calculator, a woman of her height and weight requires at least 1000 more calories per day than a woman of her height with a BMI in the healthy range. You just cannot maintain 350+ pounds on 1600 calories per day. In fact, she could consume around 2500 calories per day and lose 1/2 pound per week. A woman of her size may never be a size 4, but she could easily lose 100 pounds and maintain it without extreme dieting.

It really isn’t as simple as calories-in-calories out, especially if you’ve lost significant amounts of weight before. This is even more true if you’ve lost significant amounts of weight more than once. For many, their body will react as though it’s starving — even when they’re obese.
“Extreme” dieting is your term, not mine. I’m simply pointing out that it’s not that simple, and that strategies that work for people who want to lose 10 or 20 pounds are, for many, not the same strategies that work for people who need to lose and maintain much larger amounts of weight.

You're right. The 350+ pound person can lose 50 pounds more easily than a size 4 dieting down to a size 0.

[Anonymous]

I'm still lost as to how she is considering herself anorexic. Its not just a mental state and/or deciding to not eat an entire box of Costco chocolate muffins.

Its a change in your body and extreme weight loss - neither of which she has.

[Anonymous]

Wow, she went on Good Morning America spewing this bile. There's a difference between saying she's a fat body positivity advocate but now she's potentially introducing a whole new group of young people to anorexia as 'positive'.

Disgusting.