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[quote=Anonymous]Is she typically anxious? A perfectionist? Have you noticed anything that would make you think she’s developing an eating disorder?

I speak from experience. I never thought about calories and I was also a DI athlete. A sexual assault my freshman year triggered memories of being molested as a child and that’s when I developed my eating disorder.

My experience might not be relevant but I don’t think that you need to worry about your daughter unless you have a gut instinct or some actual evidence that she is developing an unhealthy relationship with food.

And this is probably semantics, but it’s true that a calorie isn’t a calorie - everyone metabolizes foods differently and there are a lot of factors that contribute (genetics and intestinal bacteria for two).

This was a pretty interesting article:

https://www.economist.com/1843/2019/02/28/death-of-the-calorie

And this is a pretty good book at debunking myths about food and calories:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WSSYZK2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1[/quote]

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