Introduction: The Body's Survival Response You're Fighting Against You've been in a caloric deficit for two months. The first four weeks were great — the scale moved every week, your clothes felt looser, and you felt motivated. Then it stopped. You tightened the diet further. Maybe dropped another 200 calories. The scale barely moved. You dropped more. Still nothing. This experience is so universal that many people blame themselves — lack of willpower, secret cheating, miscounting. But the biology tells a different story. Your body is doing exactly what it's designed to do: fight…