Something isn't working

These pages are for the moment the plan stops behaving. Each one starts from what the problem most often turns out to be, moves to what it rarely is, and ends with a single thing to do. None of them assumes you did something wrong; people who arrive here are already trying.

• Why you stopped losing weight — three weeks flat. Most often the deficit has quietly gone.
• Why the scale jumps 2 kg overnight — water, salt, glycogen; how to read a scale.
• Always hungry on a deficit — the levers with evidence and the ones without.
• "I eat almost nothing and don't lose weight" — what measurement finds, and the one honest week.
• Does your metabolism slow down? — real, usually small, not for ever.
• After a bad day (or week) — the arithmetic and the only action.
• Alcohol and your weight — seven kilocalories a gram, usually unlogged.
• Sleep, stress and hunger — 385 kilocalories more after a short night.

If the question is not here, the glossary may have the term, and the Start here path has the model these pages assume.