Caloric restriction is a deliberate strategy to reduce calorie intake for fat loss, offering flexibility in timing and food composition.

“so strategy one is a very deliberate strategy called caloric restriction so it's it's the only way that you directly go about eating less which is you know clearly what bodybuilders do where they're tracking every macronutrient every calorie they are counting them and they are shrinking that volume of calories lower and lower and lower to reach an energy imbalance that is sufficient for the amount of fat loss that they're trying to produce again you could argue that this is the most flexible way to go about weight loss because it is agnostic to when you eat or what the actual constitutive you know elements are of the of the diet um it's really just paying attention to the energy balance or imbalance”