According to the book, you add five grams a day and stay there for a week. Then add another five grams and hold another week. And so forth. You're looking for the place where your weight loss stops. If you have wildly fluctuating weight, like I do, you might want to stay at each stage for a couple of weeks. Also, do you average your daily weights every week? This can give you a much clearer picture than trying to determine a trend from fluctuating daily totals. Often a graph that looks like the Alps will settle down into a nice, downward progression if you start looking at your weekly average.

--Ruth