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The government cited research showing that cutting just 50 calories a day would lift 340,000 children and two million adults out of obesity.

The 43-year-old said she experiences overwhelming compulsions to eat, which can lead her to consume up to 5,000 calories in less than 30 minutes.

I’m not a nutritionist or anything — I’m not looking at calories — but I am trying to walk a line that’s at least better than chicken tenders and French fries, you know what I mean?

But some people are eating less than 1,000 calories a day.

When she confided in him that she had been making herself sick after meals to lose weight, she said he laughed and replied: "Well, at least you get the calories out."