Let me illustrate what I meant with an example. Based on your formula, if I wanted to lose 10 pounds over 10 weeks, needing a deficit of 514 kcal/day, and my ba

Let me illustrate what I meant with an example. Based on your formula, if I wanted to lose 10 pounds over 10 weeks, needing a deficit of 514 kcal/day, and my basal metabolism rate were 1800 kcal/day (roughly what mine is), ignoring exercise I would need to maintain a diet of no more than 1284 kcal/day. How I interpreted your first comment was that you were arguing this would work for the entire 10 week period. My point was that it would not, that over time the rate of weight loss would slow as your basal metabolism rate drops. Given a constant diet, at some point an equilibrium will be reached. Sorry for the misunderstanding.