I've done CC a few times when I get close to being overweight. Starting January of this year I cut my calories down by 1000/day, 7k/week, which is roughly 2 po

I've done CC a few times when I get close to being overweight. Starting January of this year I cut my calories down by 1000/day, 7k/week, which is roughly 2 pounds (just shy of 1kg) a week. It's now March 10th and I'm down 19 pounds in ~9 weeks. Is it a bit tedious to count calories? Yeah, but it's perfectly effective. Thermodynamically you're never going to be getting energy from nowhere. If you're consuming more calories than you're burning you're gaining weight; fewer you're losing it. My goal is to lose another 5ish pounds so that I stabilize roughly at my current weight with a maintenance period of the next year or so.