I just came here to say something similar. THIS is why I hate tall fats the most of the most. Let's take a 6' tall woman and give her a BMI right in the middle of healthy weight. That would be a 21.7 BMI at a weight of 160. To maintain that weight, she could eat 2,010 calories per day. To someone short like me (5'3"), who can't go over 1,200 calories per day without gaining, that seems like heaven! If I were that tall I could eat almost TWICE as much as I do now, every single day, and not gain an ounce! Sadly I can't imagine eating that much in one day, much less day after day. There are definitely some days when I would like to be able to go over 1,200 -- and occasionally I do, because life --- but I'm rarely hungry so we're just talking about boredom, not a lack of calories. Yet not only does this fatty get to consume twice what I do without an ounce of consequences, does that satisfy her? Nope, she obviously massively exceeds that amount every day and I have no doubt she is gaining rather than maintaining. Yet I bet she would shriek about how "starving" she was if she were to try to achieve a caloric deficit for even a single day.