Try not to think of stalls as a malfunction of the diet but as a necessary breather for your body. Your system CANNOT lose weight at an unbroken pace. It must stop and adapt briefly just as surely as it requires a little sleep every night. Your weight loss will pause periodically and then begin again. It even may go up once in a while. DO NOT PANIC. THIS IS NORMAL!

You have lost quite a few pounds in a very short time. Your system needs to stop, redistribute the weight, "catch its breath," whatever. It will begin again IF YOU DON'T GIVE UP.

STEP AWAY FROM THE SCALE AND NOBODY GETS HURT!!