You're The Woman Who Can't
Push Harder.

Here's the part no one told you: the effort that built your results is now the thing standing in their way. For most of your life, harder worked. More intensity, less food, tighter discipline, and your body answered. But the same body responds differently under a shifting hormonal environment, and it now reads relentless push plus restriction as another stressor to defend against, not a signal to change. So it holds on to fat, gives up muscle, and turns down your metabolic rate to protect you from what looks, biologically, like famine and threat. You are not doing too little. You are very likely doing too much, and eating too little to support it. The women who break this pattern don't add more, they change what they're asking their body to do.