Need help ..

elliepop22

Morning !! New here and frankly I'm in need of some help .. Any tips of weight loss would be greatly appreciated ..

yarwell

Eat less food, move around, set MFP up to lose 0.5 or 1 lb/week. Log everything and weigh it accurately. If no progress after 3 weeks reduce calorie target.

Cherimoose

Welcome. Read the sticky posts in this forum and also the "Getting Started" forum.

TxTiffani

@kommodevaran I copied some of this from 1 of your posts because it was good info:)

To lose 1 pound, you need to eat 3500 fewer calories than you burn (what you burn is your bmr + any exercise and movement).

Go to http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/my_goals/daily_nutrition_goals

Set your Daily Nutrition Goals to your calories by telling MFP your weight & goal weight & rate which you'd like to lose (only choosing 2 lbs/wk if you have ALOT to lose).

Now, open your food diary and start logging your food. You can begin by logging what you already are eating, to see what you can adjust to better be able to hit your goals, without feeling that you're missing out on anything. Logging in advance is a good idea. So is getting and using an electronic food scale, and checking database entries with package labels or the USDA database. Try to hit your calorie goal within 50 or so, every day. Exercising can earn you extra calories to eat...most people log & eat about 50% of MFP calorie burn estimation.

After a while, you'll start to see a pattern. Some foods make it easy for you to hit your goal and feel satisfied, other foods makes it harder. You will see that you can eat anything, but you have to watch portions. Maybe play around with meal timing...5-6 small meals vs 2-3 big meals. Tweak until you have a collection of meals that satisfy you, mentally as well as physically, and fits your schedule of work and play and rest.

Weigh yourself regularly too. Once a week, or once every day. You can use Happy Scale app or something similar to log your daily weight & it will show your weight trend which causes some people to stress less about daily fluctuations. But always weigh at the same time and under similar circumstances (after morning elimination naked or light night clothes) Don't fret if your numbers don't show a loss every week - as long as you are careful with food logging, your weight will go down.

Be patient and don't try to force your body into starvation or strenous exercise. That will just backfire. Weight loss is a slow process - You can expect more per week now in the beginning, but later it will slow down, until your intake and burn balances out as you get to goal weight. It's important that you get in good habits at an early stage. If you want to keep the weight off for ever, you have to be mindful about intake every day for the rest of your life. It's not as bad as it may sound, though. Just paying a little attention. Maybe get in some more movement. That will feel more pleasurable as your weight drops.

elliepop22

Thank you ..