Going a bit non-traditional, I will tell you there is an important mental aspect to that last little bit. We humans tend to stress about hitting a specific number on a scale. My dog doesn't do that and yet since I got him more than 7 years ago as a rescue, he has weighed 69 point something pounds at every single vet visit.

When we get stressed, our bodies produce cortisol. Cortisol will spike both your BG and insulin which will keep you from losing weight regardless of how low the calories go. There is another post right now (and there have been at least a half dozen others almost exactly like it in the last few months) where someone is desperate to get below 200 lbs.

The amazing thing is is that most of the time, once that arbitrary boundary is crossed, those people tend to go back to losing as they were before they hit that "stall" weight. The more they stress about being stuck at 200.1 lbs, the longer they stay there.

Here is my non-traditional advice: eat like you know you should, exercise like you know you should and don't step on a scale for (a week, 2 weeks, a month, whatever). If you can truly get away from obsessing about what that stupid scale says for a while, I think you will see how the reduced stress will help.

Second thing is sleep. Not getting enough quality sleep will cause your body to hold on to that last little bit. The sleep part is important across the board, but it seems to be even bigger at the end.

Think about how you have been sleeping lately. If it is less or more restless or both lately, then that would be evidence of the increased stress/cortisol issue in the first part. If it is the same, but you are like me and chronically don't sleep enough, that last little bit is going to be tougher.