So I've worked on psychiatric units clinically, as well as in obesity-related clinics. It's not uncommon to hear things from family and other social support fi

So I've worked on psychiatric units clinically, as well as in obesity-related clinics. It's not uncommon to hear things from family and other social support figures along the lines of "if X starts weighing themselves or counting calories they'll develop an eating disorder". Or even, with individuals who are anorexic to the extent that it's life threatening, and they need to be weighed etc. to gain weight, family and support individuals say things like "so and so's eating disorder is caused by them weighing themselves and counting their calories. [The staff] should just stop that because it's making the problem worse." This paper is providing some data pertaining to that. I don't monitor this literature closely but last time I touched base with it these kinds of things (monitoring weight and calories) were associated with healthier outcomes. I think it depends on the context though a bit.