Why am I not seeing any results?!

Without additional information this is going to be very hard to answer intelligently. You may want to consider opening up your journal so that people can have an idea what you have been eating / doing for exercise. A mention of your base calories would be useful, are you active, not active, drink water?? Eating 1200 calories of junk is not the same as eating 1200 calories of real food. Without seeing what you are eating we can't tell anything.

Hey, I looked at your diary (sorry I know invasion!!), and even though your coming close to your goal calories, you need to eat a bit healthier.. Try to make more food at home and avoid going out or having frozen dinners.. Also you gotta give it a lot more than 1 week to see results when you first start. My 2 cents

I also peaked at your journal. You sure do eat a lot of convenience food, processed, high carb/low protein food. From what I can see, almost all of your vegetables come from frozen dinners. Try and up your lean meats (Such as chicken, fish, lean beef) and vegetables. Hell, even get more fresh fruit in there and really cut back on eating out and processed meals.

I would suggest tracking your sodium and drinking water. I had the same problem, and that really made a difference for me. I can gain a couple of pounds just by eating too many high sodium meals and not drinking enough water.

Eat real food. Drink your water. Weight everything with a food scale. Move 30 minutes a day. Be patient

For a female you do consume too much carbs to be honest ... You should try to keep that 165g/day goal that MFP set or even get to 140 at a certain point(e.g. when you're not so active) .... that clean eating type a deal is , for the most part , non-sense because a carb is still a carb... you're body can't tell the difference between 1g of carb from a bagel and 1g of carb from an apple... also very important : STICK TO IT....

Do you drink water?

One thing that I do which may help you is to pack your breakfast/lunch for work the night before that way you aren't in a hurry on your way out the door to grab something 'fast'. The frozen dinners are loaded with salt and sugar. One thing that struck me was how little "food" you are actually eating for the number of calories you're getting. If you change your macros to track sodium & sugar I'll bet you will faint!

It does take time to cook for yourself for certain but not as much as you may think.. Once you get into the swing you can make a healthy dinner and pack leftovers for lunch in about an hour. Think of it as an investment in your health. Your body will thank you

how often are you weighing yourself? Try only doing it once a week. And if anything, just keep doing what you are doing. You should at least be feeling better physically and mentally if you are doing all the right stuff.. That should be a part of your goal too.

Keep going.

I'd like to add that a lot of my convenience foods on my food tracker aren’t actually me eating out. When I make things at home the search on the MFP app doesn’t give you a homemade option, so I just go with some that sounds close to what I actually ate. For example, last night I made spaghetti, but MTF didn’t have anything on the search so I selected something that sounded similar Fizolies. I do that often, I try not to eat out if I don’t have to, how can I accurately track what I’m making at home?

and search by brand name like prego or Ragu- for your sauces etc- it gets easier don't get defeated!~

You can more accurately track your food by searching for each item individually by brand name. For instance, search for Ragu Spaghetti Sauce, then your noodles, etc. instead of just searching for spaghetti.

I'd like to add that a lot of my convenience foods on my food tracker aren’t actually me eating out. When I make things at home the search on the MFP app doesn’t give you a homemade option, so I just go with some that sounds close to what I actually ate. For example, last night I made spaghetti, but MTF didn’t have anything on the search so I selected something that sounded similar Fizolies. I do that often, I try not to eat out if I don’t have to, how can I accurately track what I’m making at home?

If you're making it from things that can be found in the database, there's a recipe option where you put all the ingredients and tell it how many servings that makes. Then you can use it every time you make that dish. If one of the ingredients doesn't appear, you can add it to the database if you know the nutrition info for it.

I'd like to add that a lot of my convenience foods on my food tracker aren’t actually me eating out. When I make things at home the search on the MFP app doesn’t give you a homemade option, so I just go with some that sounds close to what I actually ate. For example, last night I made spaghetti, but MTF didn’t have anything on the search so I selected something that sounded similar Fizolies. I do that often, I try not to eat out if I don’t have to, how can I accurately track what I’m making at home?

But we have a recipe builder - Use that. You can select the ingredients and servings per recipe, and it's right there in your tracker! That'll get you into the habit of measuring/weighing everything you make and determining the appropriate protion size.

Hope that helps some!

I'd like to add that a lot of my convenience foods on my food tracker aren’t actually me eating out. When I make things at home the search on the MFP app doesn’t give you a homemade option, so I just go with some that sounds close to what I actually ate. For example, last night I made spaghetti, but MTF didn’t have anything on the search so I selected something that sounded similar Fizolies. I do that often, I try not to eat out if I don’t have to, how can I accurately track what I’m making at home?

I use a 'guesstimate' substitution perhaps once every two or three weeks, other than that it's weighed and logged, If you look at my diary you'll see ingredients rather than a meal. Treat yourself to some 'add and weigh' digital kitchen scales, they'll soon show a difference in your bathroom scales :flowerforyou:

Your diet must be exploding with sodium... so much possible water retention.

No exercise.

Protein is too low.

Not enough water intake.