Can't lose weight

CarpStylist

I have run into a bit of an issue. I just started my weight loss plan and for two weeks I consumed 1200-1350 calories. I also began exercising and would run for 30mins a day 3x per week. After two weeks I decide to weigh myself. Down 4 ounces only! What the heck? How can I see results?

joneallen

Open up your diary to the public, so we can see. Odds are, you're not tracking properly.

AliceDark

^ That, and it's only been two weeks. You need to make sure you're tracking properly, and then you need to be patient.

dawnna76

AliceDark wrote: »

^ That, and it's only been two weeks. You need to make sure you're tracking properly, and then you need to be patient.

this. it doesnt happen over night.

diannethegeek

1. Patience. Weight loss isn't linear and it isn't particularly fast. It's also easily masked by a lot of the processes that go on in our body when we make changes. You could be retaining a little water from the increased exercise (or a variety of other reasons) that could be making you appear to lose more slowly than you are.

2. Accuracy. It's really super common to make little mistakes when you're logging your food that can add up to big inaccuracies over the course of the day. Make sure that you're logging as accurately as you can.

3. Exercise calories. MFP is designed for you to log your exercise and eat back the extra calories that you earn. Make sure that you're not over-logging exercise (not logging cleaning or that one flight of stairs you climbed, etc) and watch out for inflated exercise burns. Some people eat back 50-75% of those extra calories just to be safe.

4. Open diary. It really can help us to see the specifics of your routine if you're willing to set your diary to public. Otherwise we're mostly just taking a guess here.

navyrigger46

Water retention from new exercise and logging inaccurately are your most likely causes. Do you use a food scale and weigh everything? If not, then you're really just guessing at how many calories you're consuming.

Also, as previously stated, it's only been two weeks, that's a drop in the bucket.

Rigger

NikiChicken

I have to echo all the other responses. make sure you are weighing, measuring and logging everything you eat. Water retention due to new exercise can also mask weight loss. Just stay consistent and be patient. You didn't gain everything in 2 weeks and you aren't going to lose it in 2 weeks either.