Keto Flame A plateau occurs because the body has gotten very used to a certain routine or pattern that you have been following for several weeks or months. When we repeat the same routines and patterns on a regular basis, our bodies get accustomed to this pattern and any progress that we hope to make becomes much more challenging to create. Now that we know what a plateau is, the thing we have to work out is how to deal with it, to continue making progress with our weight loss program. The first strategy that we can use is to simply trick the body and change up the routine or pattern that we have been doing for weeks/months.