@realchrispowell: You didn't plateau. Your body hit the brakes on purpose 👊🏼 Weeks of dieting hard and leptin drops, hunger climbs, it's your body reading a shortage (Rosenbaum & Leibel, 2010). One planned maintenance week resets that signal before it stalls. This is what carries you from cutting all summer into a fall you can actually keep up with. Link in Bio on how to structure one!!