7 Strategies to Deal with Weight-Loss Plateaus

You’re losing weight at a nice, steady pace, and things are going well...then all of a sudden, the scale doesn’t budge. For a week, maybe two or longer, you don’t see your weight change, even though you know you’re following your eating and exercise program. Are you stuck at that weight forever? Time to panic? Not at all. You’ve probably just reached a plateau, part of nearly everyone’s weight-loss odyssey.

Another plateau-buster seems to consist in actually increasing fat intake slightly (say, 1 tablespoon of linseed oil daily or every other day). This is thought to induce your body to burn stored fat.