Ig what you’re trying to do is push the actual habits first that will subsequently make them lose weight instead of focusing on the numbers which makes sense and is probably a healthier mindset, but it just sounds odd because if you’re doing it right a calorie deficit would be inevitable after beginning to work out, burning more, and switching to foods that are healthier/less calorie dense. Like if the kid is 200 lbs for example when you say maintenance I’m assuming you don’t recommend them to keep eating at the amount that got them to that weight and instead eat at the maintenance for a healthier weight? This might just be semantics atp but yeah. Mostly just cause everyone knows “workout and eat less” so I think it’s important people actually know the more technical side of how weight loss works so they don’t fall for some scam like you easily could at 14