> Why does this plateau happen? If you're asking why weight loss slows down in a diet the answer should be pretty obvious. You continue to lower calories to ke

> Why does this plateau happen? If you're asking why weight loss slows down in a diet the answer should be pretty obvious. You continue to lower calories to keep yourself in a deficit, at a certain point your calories become very low and people have trouble with compliance. Either that or the body enters a special high efficiency mode where it becomes a super efficient energy conservation machine all of a sudden? The simplest solution is probably the correct one.