As I’ve explained a million times before, the most important part of every single weight loss diet is creating a caloric deficit. This is when you consume fewer calories than your body burns (or burn more calories than you consume, it’s the same thing).
http://www.acaloriecounter.com/diet/calorie-deficit-to-lose-...


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caloric debt (the amount you burn being more than the amount you consume)
http://therunstuff.com/2011/07/31/caloric-debt/
This means that you have a deficit in calories if you burn more than you consume. You lose calories, so you have a deficit.

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You have a debt, i.e. you OWE your body more calories.

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“This is not a quick weight-loss diet. It is a get-healthy diet. First, you have to repay all the nutritional debts you owe your body from a lifetime of poor nutrition and unhealthy lifestyles, and then you can lose weight slowly. You should expect to lose about a pound a month on this diet. You may lose more than that when you first start off, but don't expect it to continue. And on no account should you lose more than 2 pounds a week. It may take years to lose a lot of weight -- it took me 7 years to lose 85 pounds -- but, unlike fad diets, it stays off, because the weight loss results from learning to live a new, healthy lifestyle and not from depriving your body of the nutrition it needs.”
https://sites.google.com/site/windintheroses/wtlw