Everything (most things) that accomplishes weight loss will involve caloric deficits. This is true in the same way that "eat your dinner or you won't grow" is a

Everything (most things) that accomplishes weight loss will involve caloric deficits. This is true in the same way that "eat your dinner or you won't grow" is a true statement. It's true in some uninteresting abstract sense. Growing up involves caloric surpluses. Death involves an end to caloric intake. Did that corpse rot because it stopped ingesting calories?