Trigger Warning: Please be advised that this episode contains a discussion around calories. Should you now, or at any time during this episode, feel triggered by this discussion, please feel comfortable leaving this space at any time.

In this week’s episode, I talk about low calories diets...in particular 1200 calories diets. It’s around this time of year that we are bombarded with marketing messages promoting weight-loss diets, but is 1200 calories a day enough to sustain a healthy lifestyle? I explore this here.

I discuss:

• Where the notion of 1200 calorie diets being ideal for weight loss originated (3:22)
• Why low-calorie diets are problematic (7:30)
• Whether consuming 1200 calories a day is enough to maintain hormonal regularity (19:40) 
• Basal metabolic rate and how this affects your total energy requirements (21:36)
• How to eat more food without guilt, shame, or fear of gaining weight (28:23)
• The benefits of eating more that 1200 calories a day (32:20)
• Why you are worthy of eating more regardless of your shape and size (35:39)

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