It's so silly. The amount of people who suffer from things like anorexia is...minuscule compared to the amount of people who are dealing with obesity. It's more common for people to over-eat than it is for people under-eat disordered eating wise. Yet the overeating leads to a lot more issues socially, economically, and so forth. But no, we must make everything about stopping those poor girls and boys from eating too little because anorexia! Personally I am short, and petite. I can do 1200 calories easy but...I'm active enough I probably should hit around 1600-1700 once I reach my desired goal body-fat percentage wise.  I actually don't look forward to this because I feel seriously ill once I start hitting the 1500 mark even if I'm consistently burning at least 1800-2000 cal a day. I'd rather have these problems though...I"d rather continue to struggle to eat up to 1200 instead of 1000....than overeat into a goddamn blimp. Obesity is worse.