My PCP says 600-800 cals a day is a starvation diet!!!!

My pcp said that eating 600-800 cals a day was too little and that is what an aneroxic person would eat. She also said that she does not see anyting wrong with me being on a 1200 cal diet, since I have been complaining about being tired and having headaches, she says she think it is from taking in too little cals-has anyone else's PCP suggest that they talk to a nutritionists to up their calorie intake. She said that when your body thinks it is starving it will try and protect itself-which is the reason for many plateaus-She said eating more through out the day has actually been proven to help people lose more weight, she said she is saying stick with suggested portion servings, but up my calorie intake, and that even 1200 was a pretty strict caloric intake

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