The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

The Primal Blueprint Definitive Guide to Troubleshooting Weight Loss.

I get a lot of emails about weight loss plateaus.

I've covered them in Dear Mark after Dear Mark.

I've personally written countless emails to readers about beating a stall.

Friends, colleagues, and peers frequently come to me for assistance with their slowed weight loss. If you type weight loss

and the letter P into Google, the first auto-fill suggestion is plateau, not plan or program. Clearly,

weight loss stalls are a big issue for people, but they're also usually inevitable. On any diet, weight loss

stalls just happen. Our bodies are always chasing homeostasis, and once we get comfortable

at a new weight, it can be hard to progress any further without making major changes to our diet

and lifestyle.

Perhaps surprisingly, primal folks arguably have it even harder because the initial weight loss comes so easily,

making those little slowdowns even more conspicuous.

We notice them.

We grow desperate for solutions,

for a return to the easy weight loss.

And so we just do exactly what worked before, only harder.

We go even lower carb.

We exercise six days a week instead of four, even if it means losing an hour or two of sleep.

We eat even more fat, and we reduce

protein to make room for it. And sometimes this works. But not always. What worked before

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