Short people get the shaft
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StarvingAuthor
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It seems like short people are always complaining that we get the 'short' end of the stick with low calorie requirements (my BMR is like...1200 or something). Tall people on the other hand are blessed with TDEEs of 2,000+! Jerks!
But! I wonder:
Do short people actually get less hungry than tall people? Do tall people feel like their 2000+ calories are insufficient unless properly nutritionally mapped out? Are short people not really considering that tall people are hungrier than us and at the end of the day it all balances out and puts us in the same boat?
HMMM......
ETA: OK, for everyone listing their TDEE/BMR, cool, just replace the 2000+ with your number and assume that shorter people of equal activity levels are much less. :-) The question still stands, and is interesting!
But! I wonder:
Do short people actually get less hungry than tall people? Do tall people feel like their 2000+ calories are insufficient unless properly nutritionally mapped out? Are short people not really considering that tall people are hungrier than us and at the end of the day it all balances out and puts us in the same boat?
HMMM......
ETA: OK, for everyone listing their TDEE/BMR, cool, just replace the 2000+ with your number and assume that shorter people of equal activity levels are much less. :-) The question still stands, and is interesting!
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You don't have to be very tall to have a TDEE of 2000.
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I'm tall and don't have a tdee of 2000+. My bmr is 1316 and I'm 5'8 and sedentary due to health issues.4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfyS-S-IJs
Hunger is like pain. It's subjective. What an altitudinally challenged individual feels from their bodily hunger cues uses the same hormones and bodily organs as all other people have. I doubt that 'hunger' means different things to short and tall people, but I'm certain that if it does, there's no quantitative way to measure it.9 -
Well, smaller people have smaller energy requirements. So theoretically, it should be like for like.
And hunger and the reasons for it vary as wildly as peoples TDEEs.6 -
I'm 5' 8" and maintain on about 1700 calories (middle age).
That being said, 1700 seems like a LOT if you can only have 1200, so I feel for you.7 -
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OK, for everyone listing their TDEE/BMR, cool, just replace the 2000+ with your number and assume that shorter people of equal activity levels are much less. :-) The question still stands, and is interesting!6
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We all have it worst. That goes for each and every one of us.
But it's not just about lack of empathy, I think it's also a lack of logical thinking and understanding simple maths, like percentages.4 -
StarvingAuthor wrote: »OK, for everyone listing their TDEE/BMR, cool, just replace the 2000+ with your number and assume that shorter people of equal activity levels are much less. :-) The question still stands, and is interesting!
Actually no. You are 5'4 and bmr 1200s (I did the calculation and it's 1272)
and I'm 5'8 bmr 1316. I wouldn't say yours is much less than mine.7 -
singingflutelady wrote: »StarvingAuthor wrote: »OK, for everyone listing their TDEE/BMR, cool, just replace the 2000+ with your number and assume that shorter people of equal activity levels are much less. :-) The question still stands, and is interesting!
Actually no. You are 5'4 and bmr 1200s (I did the calculation and it's 1272)
and I'm 5'8 bmr 1316. I wouldn't say yours is much less than mine.
Hmm, interesting. So it isn't actually short people who have it hard, its all equal as I assumed in my OP. At least I know I am justified in cringing at posts looking only for short women.1 -
StarvingAuthor wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »StarvingAuthor wrote: »OK, for everyone listing their TDEE/BMR, cool, just replace the 2000+ with your number and assume that shorter people of equal activity levels are much less. :-) The question still stands, and is interesting!
Actually no. You are 5'4 and bmr 1200s (I did the calculation and it's 1272)
and I'm 5'8 bmr 1316. I wouldn't say yours is much less than mine.
Hmm, interesting. So it isn't actually short people who have it hard, its all equal as I assumed in my OP. At least I know I am justified in cringing at posts looking only for short women.
It's dependent on weight so yes short people usually weight less than tall people but not always.1 -
At 5'3" I lose a few ounces a week when I average 1200 calories a day (before exercise), because I'm sedentary otherwise. I don't believe I was ever any less hungry than anyone who could eat a lot more than me to lose the same amount. I do think I'm less hungry than those with any calorie allowance who have a goal of losing faster since there's a bigger gap between CI and CO.0
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You could also say that you get to save money on food...12
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My TDEE like 29 and change and I'm 6'01
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Your BMR is meaningless.
TDEE is where it's at, and unless you have health issues, that is entirely within your control.
I'm old and short and my TDEE is around 2000-2200.
Saying that, I'm perfectly content on around 1800 calories of food, which is around my goal weight maintenance on a bit less exercise than I'm currently doing.
Smaller bodies need less energy to fuel them in much the same way smaller cars need less gas to fuel them.
I never have seen the point in comparing food intake with other people. My husband is a foot taller than me. It would stand to reason that he should eat more food.5 -
I've seen some online calorie calculators that take height into account. As an example, suppose one person is 5'8" 140 lbs and the other is 5'3 140 lbs. The taller one would have a higher metabolism according to the calculator. I've often wondered whether that it is really true.4
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