The way my body loses weight is : dramatically, plateau, dramatically, plateau, dramatically, plateau.
One of the things I've found that helps is to take exercise breaks when I start plateauing. Still be active (walking a couple miles a day, etc.), and eating healthily, but not to be doing actual physical training.
One trick I learned years ago to pull inches off your waist doesn't actually cause weight loss, but it has a dramatic visual effect, and works quickly (over the course of several weeks). It tightens the INTERIOR abdominal muscles, which pulls in all your organs and slims your waist like crazy... but it's will not actually cause either weightloss or tone your abs.
Here's how it works:
- Take a broomstick sans broom head.
- Lay it across your shoulders behind your head
- Lift your arms up and drape them across the broomstick.
- Twist, left and right.
Do this a few thousand times a day. (Sounds crazy, right? But it's not actually that long. When I do this, I do it while watching TV. You get about 1000 twists in per hour show).
The broomstick is reeeeeeally necessary as it corrects posture and your arms resting on it keeps your lats and abs and shoulders from working, and instead the muscles that are working are primarily those interior abdominals.