There are so many reasons why someone may hit a brick wall, so many tips and hints on how to end a stall or a plateau are put forward. Stalls are pert of the normal course of events in the gradual reduction.

The LAST thing that I would recommend is going back to carbs for a day, for a week, for a month.

This way madness lies. Why Oh why would you do this. You have just spent months weaning yourself succesfully off carbs, curing the sugar cravings in your body (if not in your head), why throw it away now.

"Cleansing the body by eating carbohydrate?" Never heard of this before in any low carb theory book.

If you go off plan and go back to regular carbohydrate consumption you will gain weight.

Then you will not be on a stall but have got to shift the gain as well. This is nonsensical.

Next point. This is not a diet. This is not a programme that you do to lose weight and then go "whoopee that was good now back to the Pizza and pies". There are countless diets that will result in weight loss. None other than low carb result in a permanent change to the way you eat.

Final point. Low carb is not no carb. The amount of carbs that you can eat and not gain weight is between you and your body.

The various plans put a figure ususally between 20 and 30 where 99% of the population will be included. The more insulin resistant your are the lower the number.


So what should you be doing. When you go back to induction levels there is a temptation to do it just by a reduction in overall consumption, which means a reduction in calories. This is a mistake. The body sees that as starvation and actually hangs on to its resources. You end up retaining water. Thats why you put on weight.

Reduce the carbs by being selective in what you eat and what you leave out. Check the tips on stall and plateaus in the pages dedicated to them. The reasons could be carbs you do not realize you are eating, too much cheese and dairy, artificial sweetners, a whole host of things. Why not try some of these other ideas first?

My philosophy is ....you don't give a drowning man a drink of water!