To think 2000 calories a day is a crazy amount of food.

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The government guidelines are just not helpful when it comes to reccomending a healthy calorific intake. I have been dieting for the past 6 months and am proud to say I have lost over 4 stone not so stealth stealth brag

But anyway, the government recommends on average 2000 calories a day for women, even before I was watching what I ate I didn't eat that much (logged in MFP before diet proper started), and these days I would consider 1500 cals a treat day.

I know it is all linked to TDEE and BMR but I cannot believe that the average woman in the UK could happily eat 2000 calories a day and not gain weight! Where has this figure come from? It really is no wonder that obesity is on the rise.

So IABU is 2000 calories a normal amount of food or are my views skewed?

Only in context, otherwise no. You can't assume "2000 calories isn't that much" to mean anything, it depends on whether the comment its responding to is somehting like "2000 calories is a ridiculous amount of food, no-one eats that".

I have something interesting (well, I believe it is!) to post from a book I have. I should have done it before now, but it would take a bit of typing. I'll try to get to it later.