Even with the best of intentions, as well as an admirable amount of effort, the weight sometimes doesn't come off!! Try as you might to get the needle on that scale to budge even the slightest bit, sometimes it's just not having it. This is especially true for people who have already lost quite a bit of weight and are now trying to take off those last ten pounds or so.

To help you shed those stubborn extra pounds, here is a quick tip from an article titled "Scale Stuck?", which appears in this month's edition of Self magazine. I'll be posting one of them a day for the next 10 days.

Hopefully these tips will help you figure out what's causing those pounds to stick around.

Quick Tip #5

Diet Flub: You're an email addict - This serves as a good example of how advances in technology sometimes cause us to be less physically active. Does this sound like you? You work in an office where most of the people with whom you regularly communicate (be it for work-related stuff or just idle chit-chat) are situated within shouting distance. But, since you can't yell over to them, you either send them an email or an instant message. The problem is, you only burn about 5 calories writing an email, whereas actually getting up and walking over to that person would burn eleven. This may seem insignificant, but multiply that difference of 6 calories by the number of times per week you send that email or IM, and you'll see how a simple stroll across the office can add up to some serious calorie burning.

Fix It: Add some movement to your day. In addition to taking that leisurely stroll over to your co-worker's desk, also try standing while talking on the phone, say the folks at Self magazine. Passing along a mere five messages, on foot, to a co-worker can burn as many as 100 calories per day. All said and done, that equals burning off roughly one pound per month!!