I know many of you are aware of the info I'm about to share, but I have seen many people post about having trouble with stalls and wanted to share my personal experience.

I have lost 60lbs since Jan of this year and I've had my share of "stalls" and "slow loss"

I hit a BIG stall a couple months ago and even though I was doing cardio/weights 5-6x/week and staying at induction carbs, I was losing little/nothing(yeah I know muscle weighs more than fat but I can assure you I was stalling)

My gf does weight watchers(I know) but she did help me quite a bit with suggestions. I kept bitching about the scale not moving and she said "you eat way too many calories, I dont care how low your carbs are"

I hate having to count ANYTHING(carbs is enough) and I'm used to eating big portions so this kind of ticked me off, but I was frustrated so I thought I'd try it.

I started logging my cals into fitday and I was flabbergasted! I was probably consuming 3000-3500 calories every day! My BMR is 2300. Plus, I had a habit of making dinner my largest meal and not eating but 3 times a day max.

I've REALLY accelerated my loss by upping my meals to 4-5x/day with smaller portions and limiting my cals. Also I try to keep dinner at a more reasonable size and not eat after 8pm. I drink a ton of water during the day as well.

I've almost completely eliminated soft drinks(still have them if I go out to dinner) not because I think Nutrasweet or Splenda is bad neccessarily, but because there is no substitute for large volumes of water when losing weight.

I just wanted to share what works for me because I see alot of posts about stalling due to nutrasweet, or heavy cream, or atkinsbars etc. I know these things can be a stumbling block for various reasons, but I think the main problem is EXCESS CALORIES!!

People complaining about various things causing them to stall and "knocked out of ketosis" is not valid most times IMHO. Being in ketosis does NOT gurantee fat loss. IF you are staying at induction carbs and in ketosis but eating way over your BMR, you will get purple strips but you wont lose crap because you're just burning dietary fat!

so to recap my suggestions are:

1) Find your BMR(Basal Metabolic Rate) and keep your total calories at or just slightly above this number.

2) Keep your carbs within induction or ongoing weight loss(wherever you are)

3) Eat several small meals instead of 1 or 2 huge meals. Minimize the size of dinner and dont eat too late at night

4) WATER WATER WATER (need I say more)