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In recovering from anorexia and before a BMI of more than 20 has been reached the most common suggestions that I've seen involve eating in the 2500+ Calories a day range (even over 3000) while avoiding un-necessary exercise, thus giving the body all the resources it needs to recover.

When first starting a re-feed some doctor care would be highly desire-able in case the body (in the presence of sufficient energy) attempts to effect necessary repairs and depletes necessary resources (throws mineral such as phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium severely out of whack for example).

However if we've gone beyond that point, one would encourage an increase of Calories as fast as possible to over 2500 while minimizing exercise so as to get as fast as possible to a point around BMI 20 where hormones are expected to become more normalized.

At that point we can start considering body composition and strength training keeping in mind that for up to well over a year after the normalization of body resources the body will be settling everything around and re-distributing our restored weight (similarly to how our excess skin tightens up for a year or two after weight loss).

the usual disclaimer: getting individualised information from a professional instead of scraping the internet is a very wise course of action when dealing with important health issues!