Very few people require 2500 calories a day, particularly with modern sedentary lifestyles.
Plus, aside from the thermodynamics component, from a nutrition standpoint not all calories are the same.
That doesn't have anything to do with my point. (Although mercifully my TDEE is closer to 3kCal)
"Plus, aside from the thermodynamics component, from a nutrition standpoint not all calories are the same."
Again, we're talking about weight loss which pretty much is thermodynamics.
Very few people require 2500 calories a day, particularly with modern sedentary lifestyles.
Plus, aside from the thermodynamics component, from a nutrition standpoint not all calories are the same.