Oddly enough Donuel, a few weeks ago I seemed to plateau - no weight change for the best part of the month. As I'm not actually on 'a diet' as such, just making sensible changes to my eating habits, a little perplexing but I didn't say 'oh bugger it this isn't working' and give up. Then at the end of the month, the pounds suddenly dropped, pretty much all in one go.

I'm also aware of the body's tendency to go into calorie conservation / starvation mode, when confronted with a sudden scarcity of food. I'm not experiencing much in the way of this, because I'm not cutting anything back too drastically. When people do cut back drastically, the body's metabolism slows down in order to burn fuel more slowly. Then when 'the diet' is over it grabs all the new available calories and sticks them right back where they used to be, in the form of body fat stores in case of another period of starvation! I don't plan on becoming a so-called 'yo-yo dieter'. Hence the simple and slow approach.