From my understanding, the only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume – a. k. a. caloric deficit. And if you don’t use that extra food energy, it is stored as fat. Seems simple enough. How, then, is it that low-carb diets can cause weight loss without a caloric deficit? What secret metabolic process do low-carb diets access that enable people to burn fat while consuming far more calories than they actually use? Where does all that extra food energy go then?