Stall on a low carb diet

To determine if you are maintaining, losing or actually stalling, compare your average weekly weights. (Women: Don't bother stressing over your weight during the 10 days surrounding your menstrual cycle.) Daily weight can fluctuate by several pounds due to such variables as salt intake and water retention. Weighing in weekly is a better way to determine                                                     If you are exercising regularly, you may be building muscle tissue! Muscle tissue is more dense than fat, so while it may make you heavier, it takes up a whole lot less space (and looks a lot better on you).low carb dieters commonly lose inches even when the scale doesn't move, and sometimes the most noticeable changes are in their clothing sizes. If you must obsess over numbers, focus more on body fat percentage and clothing size than on actual number of pounds lost             Examine carefully everything you are eating and drinking. What stalls one person may not hinder the next. Try removing a potential offending food or drink from your diet for a full week or two to see if it could be the culprit                         Try lowering carbs, raising carbs (Surprise! Sometimes eating too few carbs can cause metabolic slowdowns!), upping fat or increasing fiber.                                  Calculate and track your average intake of calories, fat, carbs and protein. Many software programs are available that will do this for you. Additionally, many websites feature this capability, some for free. Or, you can keep a simple written food diary and use a carb or calorie counter. Eating too many calories can interfere with any weight loss plan as can eating too few, which throws your body into starvation mode and slow metabolism. The trick is knowing what's going into your body. If you're not overeating but are still not losing, go back to the strictest initial phase of your eating plan for a couple of weeks. (With Atkins, for instance, that's 20g carbs per day maximum.) On Atkins or a similar diet, make sure your fat percentage is high -- the initial, or corrective, phase of the Atkins diet is technically high-fat, not high-protein. Make sure your protein intake is not too high -- studies suggest that up to 52 percent of ingested protein can be converted to glucose (and then fat). Do make sure to eat enough protein to protect muscle mass. (The minimum amount depends on your body frame, current weight and activity level.)