My friend says I need to eat 500 calories a day to lose weight but isn't that very unhealthy?

Hi Loseit Community.

I am trying to lose some covid weight gain. According to myfitnespal it told me to eat 1350 calories a day to lose 1 lb a week..

But my friend told me that is too much. She told me she has eaten 500 calories every day since she was 17 and she's 33 now, same age as me.

I didn't think it's safe but she keeps insisting and said she's been tracking her food every day and that she has been just fine on 500. When I told her I emotionally eat sometimes, she goes back to saying I have no self control and that she has never in her life eaten above 500 since she was 17.

Now every day she asks me how much I ate and when I say around 1350 or 1400 she says ill never make any progress because I can't control myself. But I really don't think 500 is healthy from what I've read.

Any insight?

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