I’m sick of people justifying misogyny as “science”, also fuck r/fatlogic

“Haah it's a spaghetti measurer, let's all strike and find out the a hole who creates this spaghetti measurers, in the name of women! We will be oppressed by the noodle regime no longer! What delusion is necessary to believe that 😆😅”

https://www.reddit.com/r/fatlogic/comments/bqhgib/tdee_is_apparently_sexist/

https://www.reddit.com/r/fitmeals/comments/wd7th5/on_average_women_need_to_ingest_fewer_calories/

https://www.reddit.com/r/EverythingScience/comments/1dfozgi/its_not_your_imagination_men_really_do_eat_more/

“Most people eat too much and many incorrectly estimate how many calories they are actually eating. The numbers the calculator gave you sound just fine for your height. Men have a higher base metabolic rate than women. This is not misogynistic, it's just how human bodies work. The calculators are not wrong in my experience.”

”The smaller the body the less fuel it needs to exist. It takes far more work circulating blood around 6 feet than it does 5. This is not misogynistic, it’s just science. A truck burns more gasoline than a small sedan. A Great Dane eats more food than a chihuahua. Men need more calories than women.

Now, there are MANY factors that go into determining your own personal tdee, bmr, and how much you need to eat to bulk, maintain, or cut, such as a highly active or sedentary job, your exercise regimen, genetics, and/or health conditions that impact metabolism. Those reasons may be why YOU could maintain on 2500 (which could actually not be accurate if you weren’t weighing your food) but the same woman of your size would maintain on 1600-1800. It’s important to remember these are an average, not a definitive number for every individual.

At the end of the day, it may feel like 1800 calories is very little because of how calorically dense food has become these days, but if someone eats a balanced diet with an emphasis on whole food ingredients, they’ll find their budget stretches a lot farther than it does if they only eat or prioritize processed foods (tasty, but need to be eaten in moderation).”

”I am about to be 28, also 5’3, 130ish lbs, and truly sedentary. My maintenance (confirmed through tracking intake and weight over a period of time) is 1,500-1,600. Right on par with what TDEE calculators estimate.

It’s not misogyny. It’s thermodynamics.”

”I'm 5'10 and my basal metabolic rate is 1500. Add 300 calories for sedentary lifestyle and even I that's 7 inches taller than you come to 1800.

I run 30 min 3-4 times a week mostly for heart health and that doesn't even use that many calories (150-200 at best). Exercise doesn't use that much energy. I need to eat around 1500 to lose 1 lbs a week.

This has nothing to do with misogyny and everything to do with people overestimating effect of exercise on weight loss and underestimating just how much they eat.”

”That sounds right to me. I’m 5’4” and I can’t eat more than 1500 or I’ll gain. I have to eat less to loose. I’m 34. Your metabolism starts to slow down around your age.”

It honestly makes me sick to my stomach knowing that the TDEE calculator has so many biases against women’s bodies all while people claiming it’s not sexist at all and just “science” and blah blah blah. As a woman who needs to eat more than the requirements thrown at women, I feel extremely invalidated.

If I have to hear one more idiot saying that men need to eat more than women, all while ignoring women’s appetites and the diversity of needs, I want to scream.

Also fuck r/fatlogic! Just a bunch of right wing asshats using outdated references to justify their bigotry and body shaming. I will never understand why people find it “motivating” to berate the shit out of plus sized people and those who don’t agree with the “calories in, calories out” mindset.

It undermines the struggles women have to go through regarding of what we eat and how we eat. It also makes tall and larger women invisible and undermine our experience in eating.

As women, we get told we’re eating too much and then get told we’re not eating enough. It is frustrating as hell for us as the TDEE calculator fails to acknowledge on how diet culture can affect us and that the prescience of eating disorders is more common than we’d like to believe.

We need to accept the fact that every individual does not fit into a particular box, that our needs should not meet a requirement that in reality doesn’t satisfy us. We need to unlearn the rules of diet culture and become more accepting to the diverse range of our bodies. We are not objects. We are human.