Why am I not seeing any results?!

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.

You can build your homemade recipes into MFP by tracking the ingredients you are using for your recipe. I've had good luck doing that when I've been making my own stuff at home. you will have to look up each individual ingredient, however, but I find the MFP database contains a lot of great data for even obscure brands of things.

With the amount of generic items (not actual products) and guessed weights (0.9953 cup cherios???!!! WTF) you could EASILY be going way over on your calories, for everything you should use brands, only using generic for things like fruit and veg. Everything should be measured in grams, only using cups for veg, and given the amounts your putting in, im guessing your not actually using a serving cup (which if you werent aware is about 1/2 the size of an english tea cup or 1/3 a normal mug)

Couple things.

As others have mentioned, you need to stop eating out and start making your own meals. Without getting all cultish about processed vs. whole foods and all that, it lets you control what you are eating to a much higher degree than guestimating. Personally, I do not believe in the whole "If It Fits Your Macro's, Do It" mentality, especially if you are just trying to lose 10-20 pounds (more than that amount, it makes a little more sense). You have time to cook. I have a soul-sucking corporate job, going back to school at night for my MA, an Aussie Shepherd that needs to be walked at LEAST 3 miles a day (or she will get bored and destroy stuff) and a 23 year old girlfriend who constantly needs me to pay attention to her. If I can find time to cook the majority of my meals, so do you. Weight loss isn't for the lazy. Thats how we got out of shape in the first place. Take some time on a Sunday and go to the store, have your butcher give you exact weights of your proteins or have them give you specific amounts, open up a bottle of wine and cook. It's fun. You will learn to enjoy it. Sure sometimes I would rather watch the baseball game and drink beer, but on Monday afternoon when everyone else is going out for Taco Hell, you will have a healthy and satisfying meal. And when your co-workers tell you how good you look in a month, it will make all the sacrificing and hard work worth it. I do all the cooking in my house, and I make recipes on here all the time. It's really my favorite tool of the site, and it really lets you make your favorite foods a lot better for you than if you ate them out. Example: Chicken Wings. I'm a guy, I love effin Chicken Wings. I make them at home with a recipe I snapped up from Bon Apetit, and I can have 8 wings for 400 calories WITH Blue cheese. If I had them at Hooters or somewhere else, were looking at close to double that, without the cheese.

Drink more water. Even when you don't want to. Watch your portions. Cook your food. Skip the crud. Use the stairs. Borrow a friends dog and walk it. Park in the farthest spot possible. Make better choices.

Chris

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?

The best way is to go to recipes and create one for things you make and eat the most that way it is there for you. I did this for the bread I make, chicken Alfredo, spaghetti bolognese & chocolate chip cookies. On a day off take an hour or two and do this and you will find it's better than adding take out dinners.

Wait... WHAT? Am I the only one who noticed OP said she's only been at this a week???