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I don't have any idea what I am doing, today is the start of week 4 of Nutrisystem and I am still at my starting weight. I am so sad. This site is cinfusing and has no direction....

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  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
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    This site is very easy. The direction is to eat less than you burn, resulting in weight loss. Insert your stats, appropriate activity level, and a reasonable amount of weight loss you'd like per week. MFP will give you the calories to eat to be in a deficit. Log all your food. Lose weight.
  • truelight_photo_craig
    truelight_photo_craig Posts: 347 Member
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    Play around with the app until it makes sense. arditarose has some good advise for using the site. Just take baby steps, be honest about logging your food and exercise, and keep plugging away. I've personally lost over 100 pounds in a 4 year time frame (took me a lifetime to put it on, it don't come off and stay off quickly). Avoid the fads and gimmicks, just eat healthy and clean, and get out there and burn! You can do it!
  • SunflowerCat74
    SunflowerCat74 Posts: 258 Member
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    Done right this site works really well. Be totally honest with yourself. Log food accurately, don't over estimate you activity level/exercise burn and be realistic about weight loss goals.

  • taco_inspector
    taco_inspector Posts: 7,223 Member
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    Do take a peek at the "Getting Started" area of these forums... http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/getting-started

    This thread provides kinda a walk thru of the application (via a sanctioned link): http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1399829

    y'ought'a be able to kinda get a feel for how it goes; after working in the app a while, it does seem easier, but the first day or two the whole things seems foreign, so your confusion is not uncommon.

    if I can help, send me a message (click on my name here, and the next page that loads will have a "send a message" option -- On the web, you'll see a little 'mail' icon at the top of your "Home" and "Profile" and a few other pages where you'll see if someone has messaged you -- For the app, messages are listed in the main menu.)...
  • princessm928
    princessm928 Posts: 20 Member
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    Do take a peek at the "Getting Started" area of these forums... http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/getting-started

    This thread provides kinda a walk thru of the application (via a sanctioned link): http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1399829

    y'ought'a be able to kinda get a feel for how it goes; after working in the app a while, it does seem easier, but the first day or two the whole things seems foreign, so your confusion is not uncommon.

    if I can help, send me a message (click on my name here, and the next page that loads will have a "send a message" option -- On the web, you'll see a little 'mail' icon at the top of your "Home" and "Profile" and a few other pages where you'll see if someone has messaged you -- For the app, messages are listed in the main menu.)...

    Thank you, I am used to the Nutrisystem site so this is confusing, thanks for your understand