bumsquash:

The typical ‘obesity’ argument is fatness is bad, slimness good, so any means of getting from fat to slim must be good.

Regardless of the overall health status of the individual concerned- the weight a body maintains is its metabolic equilibrium.

This means whether it or you are deemed ‘healthy’ or not, calorie restriction requires continued and permanent disruption of that equilibrium.

That disruption is what can and does lead to all manner of eating and mental disorder.