Plateaus happen

Let's say that you're two weeks into the losing weight status of your weight loss program.

By that I mean...you've spent two weeks getting you body into a caloric imbalance state, and you're working out with light weights and biking or jogging to help the process along. Then, once that first pound came off, you've gone two more weeks, and lost a couple more pounds... probably about a quarter pound a day or something of that nature.

So you step on the scale on the Sunday of the third week (because I advocate stepping on the scale only once a week) and you haven't lost any weight!

You haven't gained any - but you haven't lost any.

Do not despair.

Plateaus happen, as your body strives to get used to each new weight. All you need to do is continue doing exactly what you're doing  - eating reduced portions, exercising and so on. Once your body gets used to the new weight, and maintains that caloric imbalance, the weight will start coming off again by the next week.

It's just one of those things that makes losing weight so fun.  ;)

But it is also what's going to help you when you achieve the weight you want to stay at. As long as you don't go hog wild the day after you achieve that weight, but rather just increase portions a little at a time, you will be able to maintain your new weight  - ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT MAINTAINING your new weight is much more difficult than losing it to begin with!

For most people - those not following my program! -  they start eating "normally" - the way they always used to eat - right away, and the body remembers back to that old weight it had and wants it back, and starts doing its best to get back to that weight. (Yes, I'm anthropromorphizing, but it does really happen.)

But because you've lost weight so gradually under my program, and your body thus has had a chance to get used to each new weight loss, you will not be seized with un-resistable cravings when it comes time for you to maintain.