Hank, i appreciate your advice like 99% of the time, truly, but I think you are an outlier when it comes to dieting.
You’re the person who can eat an absolute fuckload of food daily without getting fat, which means that eating a standard diet for most people would yield a massive calorie deficit for YOU, but not for us normies lol.
You also have an active lifestyle, active job, constantly physical demands and some help from numerous AAS compounds - all of which lend a huge hand in how you are able to diet. Still, many people do not have these factors they can lean on, which makes your advice a bit misplaced for some. Most people don’t have the time, or ability, or will to pump out a few hours of cardio either.
Based on your lifestyle and standard calorie intake, you could starve yourself for 2 days and generate like 15,000-16,000 calorie deficit, meanwhile it would take me 4-5 days to do the same. I’m not saying it doesn’t work for you, I’m saying that you aren’t like most people (hardly a bad thing).
Hoping this doesn’t come off as disrespectful in any way