What non-exercise activity strategy can help create a consistent energy gap to overcome a stall?

Increasing Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT)

While diet is considered the primary driver of weight change on this regimen, increasing overall daily energy expenditure through movement is a practical strategy to create a sustained caloric deficit when plateaus occur. The recommended method for achieving this without the metabolic stress associated with vigorous exercise—which can sometimes exacerbate issues like high cortisol—is by increasing Non-exercise activity thermogenesis, or NEAT. NEAT encompasses all the energy expended for everything we do that is not sleeping, eating, or sports-like exercise, such as simple actions like walking more, taking stairs, or even fidgeting. These small, consistent energy expenditures add up to create a measurable gap without overburdening the system.