If you're menopausal, barely eating, and STILL gaining or not losing — you're not crazy and you're not "just not in a deficit.

" Menopause is a perfect storm: estrogen decline, cortisol dysfunction, rising insulin resistance, and thyroid down-regulation can drop your metabolic output by a few hundred calories… and that matters MASSIVELY when you're already undereating. In this episode I explain why "eat less, move more" fails, how chronic restriction backfires, why bloodwork can miss functional thyroid issues, and why reverse dieting is the move to rebuild your metabolism so you can lose fat like a normal human again.