Try dropping the dairy and see what happens. I had a similar thing happen and quit milk and yogurt, only a small amount of cheese, and the fat just melted away.

Search through previous questions here, this topic comes up a lot and many of the same suggestions get repeated.

The 3 things that worked for me were 1) adopt the Paleo diet, 2) go low carb, about 25g per day, and 3) changing my exercise from running 3-4x per week, to doing intense, strength-based workouts about 2-3x per week and a bunch of walking. For the walking, I would try to walk at least 30 min per day, then I started a new job where I commute on metro/bus and so walk for that.

For some people, even small amounts of dairy, sugar, or carbs can halt the weight loss. I am ok with dairy, but over about 50g of carbs my weight loss stopped.

I would walk at least 30 min each day. Lift heavy weights. Drop the dairy. I recently dropped most of my dairy and broke through a plateau in weight loss.

I do not agree with what the others say about cutting down dairy. IF you are tolerating dairy with no bloating/GI issues, then continue eating it, BUT, go for lactose-free dairy (hard cheeses, home-made probiotic lactose-free yoghurt), and make sure it's from goats (their casein is more compatible for humans than cows'). From cows, eat only grass-fed butter, and lactose-free cream (there's one such product in the market). Do not drink any animal milk, get coconut milk instead if you have to.

If you're eating the way you're saying that you're eating and still can't lose weight, add more coconut oil/fat in your food, and definitely go get checked for hypothyroidism/Hashimoto's (make sure they test for all of these, they usually only test the first two: TSH, T4, T3, reverse T3, Hashimoto's antibodies). From what I've read, that's a common reason people on various diets can't lose weight.

Look at how much calories you are eating then check the thyroid.

You're eating too much. Low carb helps, but it's not magic. Gradually work your way down to fewer and fewer meals. Eating frequently is not beneficial as often claimed my mainstream nutritionists. I've been eating only 4-5 meals a week, big 2-lb steaks and a few potatoes, and I've lost about 17 lbs in the last 7 weeks, 220 @ 30% BF(measured with BodPod) to 203 @~23% BF. I have also been increasing strength in the gym, albeit only slightly, but I've been a dedicated lifter for almost a year and a half (almost 300 bench and 400 deadlift), so they're not "newbie gains". Fasting is the quickest, healthiest, and most efficient way to lose fat.

It could be the dairy -- try eliminating dairy or cutting it back to just a little butter or ghee. It could also be the nuts. Sometimes a small handful of nuts is actually a lot! Try eliminating them or only using them in tiny amounts as flavoring (such as a few sliced almonds with your asparagus). If your veges are high carb veggies, you might be getting too many carbs (in edition to the dairy), so you might try to limit your carbs (50 grams a day might be a good goal for you). You might also consider that you are just eating too much. The first two-three weeks I was on the Paleo diet, I had a lot of carb cravings and this weird after meal hunger (I'd get it about two hours after eating). If I ignored the cravings and hunger, it would go away (without a low blood sugar episode) and then I could go the rest of the time until my next meal (I went three meals/day and no snacks). If I ate a snack it really stalled my progress on the diet. I didn't lose weight very fast, but my body composition did change in the first month, then the fat started coming off about 1 pound a week. Maybe you are also a "slow starter."

I agree with the above answers - drop the dairy - it helped me and also made me realize that I might have a bit of an intolerance to it when I went back to it after a while.

The other which helps me with plateaus is a little IF - sometimes its just as simple for me as having dinner by 6.30pm and then going through until 1pm the next day before eating - this can really kick start things and you don't have to do it much - just whatever feels comfortable.

The final point might be that you are expecting to much from yourself! 3 weeks isn't a lot of time really - I also go through long plateaus which can last for 6 weeks with no change at all - but I just learn to be happy with the fact that I feel so much better and am maintaining weight in that time - that way it doesn't feel like such a big deal.

Well finally I am having great success with this after 18months of tweaking paleo. I truly have tried all the combinations of exercise and diet. For the last 10 wks I have gone down to 10 gms of carbs a day and about 600 - 800 cal a day and still lost no weight - UNTIL i added in 30 min of heavy weight training 3 times a wk - Pyramid training. I am dropping about 500 gms every 2 days - still on Keto diet - still low carb low fat and low cal - feel fine.

I eat bacon and eggs for breakfast - protein shake morning tea - lunch meat and few veg afternoon tea protein soup and dinner just meat or fish - I get about 80 gms of protein a day - so lunch and dinner are small portions.

Finally its falling off!

Dairy has too many carbs unless you eat cheese but then its more fat - so limit cheese and use cream where you would use milk - but again limit that till lost weight then enjoy the cheese and cream - but I wont go back to milk

I should add that when I first went on Paleo I lost about 10 kg in a few wks then nothing at all for 18 months or so

O.k. I have to ask about the "paleo diet dont's" What are we talking here?

Nuts can be problematic for some. They certainly were for me during weight loss. Just something else to consider tweaking.

It may be a case of simply overeating. I naturally seem to ingest several hundred calories more than my body seems to need if I eat to satiety so I do have to actively limit calories. I hate feeling hungry so it's a challenge to stave off hunger at a lower caloric intake but it can be done if need be.

With the information above, I also want to add: use a tape to measure yourself. Scale weight means very little. I was on a weight-loss diet, and turns out I didn't lose any weight, but lost 2 belt sizes.

Also, what is your current weight and why is it that you have 50 lbs to lose? You don't have to answer if it sounds too personal.

Its your Dairy. Dairy is highly processed these days and can be very easily absorbed into the body. It'll kinda be the replacement for carbs.

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As mentioned, I think cutting things must be an n=1 experiment. I find that pounds come off easier if I limit dairy to aroung 50gr a day. I had cut nuts hoping it would boost my weightloss, but I stalled. I put a tbsp of mixed nut butter/day back in, and belly fat is melting away.

I am doing 800 calories 1 day and 1300 the next and it seems to help.

apart from the other good answers. you may have added muscle (common when starting paleo, high good fat diets), which has offset the weight of any fat loss. it's not uncommon for some people to go up in weight because of this.

The volume of muscle is less than the volume of fat for the same weight. So if you have added muscle, you may have noticed some reshaping in your body; trousers/belt looser, shoulders broader etc, look in the mirror, pinch the fat, (you could buy some body fat callipers), keep a record, even take photos if you like.

another idea is to get yourself a good set of Body Composition scales. The accuracy of these scales may be open for discussion (i believe mine to be pretty spot on). But irrespective of their accuracy, you will be able to track your BF%, so if you are losing body fat the scales will show it & your BF% will be trending downwards.

good luck

here's a recent paleohacks question on the muscle subject; http://paleohacks.com/questions/78410/where-did-all-this-muscle-come-from

Instead of being a slave to the scale, measure yourself as a way to determine changes in your body composition. I'm a woman who can easily carry around an extra 20 lbs of fat but I can build muscle very easily as well. I've been a fit 172 and an unfit 172 and my clothes fit very differently depending on which I was. Even without exercising I find that when I'm sticking to my Paleo ways I look and feel better but don't necessarily lose a bunch of weight. I keep neck, bust, chest, arm, waist, belly, hip and thigh measurements. I only measure every 2 weeks or so. Especially for women, because of their cycles, measurements (like weight) changing on a day to day basis don't mean much--it's a longterm indicator. Also, there are scales that can actually give you stats on your body composition. My ND has one and it let me know that I carry more bone and muscle than most women for my height, which accounts for the fact that I usually weigh five to seven pounds more than most people would guess.

Do check thyroid hormones and if you take BC hormones, stop immediately.

Well, I started to respond to someone else's answer but it got too long.

I have steadily lost weight for months (now approaching 40 lbs) while enjoying 2-3 mugs of coffee with heavy cream and a small amount of unprocessed honey. I eat one large meal per day or 2 small ones--either way, I have yogurt with fruit, a green salad, fatty meat and bone broth stew.

I'm pretty sure I'm eating more calories than you are, and doing less, so if you're feeling good I'd bet you just haven't found the right tweaks to make in order to lose fat.

A few things:

• Dr Jack Kruse's advice to start your day with a nice portion of fatty meat really works. If your body is convinced that protein and fat are available, it doesn't need to hoard stored fat.
• It's easy to lose sight of the distinction between fat you've just eaten and stored body fat. I've found that if I eat moderate carbs (60-80g) and a nice portion of fatty meat every day, I start releasing body fat at night. If I eat too many carbs that stops.
• Mixing up how much you eat, as in not eating the same nutrient density, really seems to help me although I'm not sure why. I may decide to divide my food into 2 meals, but I'm not hungry later so I skip and have a low-density day. Then I'll eat normally for a day or two but wind up being extra hungry one day and eat more than usual. That seems to speed up weight loss rather than slowing it down.

You will figure this out!