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To Lose Weight, Should You Go on An Extremely Low Calorie Diet?
Extremely low calorie diets such as the "Very Low Calorie Diet" VLCD are starvation diets that involve consuming 1000 calories or less per day. Let me break it down very simply, the only way to lose fat is to create a calorie deficit which means you must burn more calories than you eat. There are 2 parts to the weight loss equation which must happen simultaneously for you not just to lose weight but to also lose body fat. Your body must burn more calories than you consume and you must also eat l...
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