No idea but good riddance to ’em. I think there’s a lot to be said for the visceral fat being the first thing that goes on this diet, so the scales might register big losses to begin with without you actually noticing much of a change on the outside (that was certainly my experience). I agree that the inch loss without weight loss does seem strange but the diet may be encouraging your body to store its resources in different ways, so I do see it as an encouraging thing when the weight loss stops but the inches continue to shrink. I like to think that it’s going into muscle storage rather than fat storage and that’s why your shape is changing but you don’t lose the weight (because muscle weighs more than fat). It is certainly the case for me, that I’ve dropped a LOT of weight this year and 2+ dress sizes and yet my skin is not sagging off me and I am discovering biceps that I hadn’t really noticed before – there might be a 6 pack waiting for me under all this blubber – who knows 😉