You eat less than your husband. You skip the bread, log every bite, and the scale won’t move. Some weeks it goes up. So you cut more, and you get more stuck. Here’s the part no crash diet will tell you: years of eating too little can push your body into survival mode, where it slows your burn and clings to fat to protect you. This is why eating more, the right way, helps women lose weight in perimenopause, with the mechanism explained and real results from women in their 40s who lived it.