In some serious need of some help!!!!!!!!!

You may want to consider starting to eat some or all of your exercise calories. Take a long look at the posts at the top of the General Diet and Weight Loss Help forum. :flowerforyou:

Have you noticed any other changes? Is your strength or stamina improving? Focus on the positive.

You may want to consider starting to eat some or all of your exercise calories. Take a long look at the posts at the top of the General Diet and Weight Loss Help forum. :flowerforyou:

Have you noticed any other changes? Is your strength or stamina improving? Focus on the positive.

Definately agree with this!! Focus on the weight training, maybe try taking a whey protein shake after your workout to help build lean muscle mass (which will burn more fat). Anything you burn you should be eating, MFP has already given you a deficit in calories, you don't want to starve your body. Your body needs that energy to refuel after you've burned all those calories. I know it seems like you are defeating the whole purpose of working out, but as long as you are eating healthy and not going to McDonalds after a workout all should be good. I myself just increased my daily intake because I hit a plateau myself.

You must also consider that if you are lifting, you are likely building muscle... this is a good thing as more muscle burns more fat. As far as density goes, muscle weighs more than fat as well! This may be why you have only lost 1 pound, only 1 noticeable pound... maybe it's more like you lost (X) pounds of fat and built (X-1) pounds of muscle!

Again, this is a good thing! Look for the positive!

I would also up your cardio, switch your routine a little, or your up weights that you are using. Do some combo moves that incorporate both cardio and strength like squat kicks or ab moves on a stability ball with weights.

I would reset your goals, that doesn't seem right!!
I sit on my *kitten* all day at a computer and my net calories are 1,470 with a deficit of 250 calories based on three 60 minute work outs a week and my weight loss goal of 0.5 lbs per week. Your net should never fall under 1,200??

maybe i am looking in the wrong spot because i don't see a deficit. I clicked reports at the top and chose net calories. is this right?

Look at your My Home and it should give you the calorie counts for exercise, food, and net calories.

Hello all,
I am new to the site only been here for a few weeks thought id write and ask for some help. So me and a few girls from work have been going to the gym the past 4 weeks and i for some reason have only lost 1 pound. we go 5 days a week every morning for an hour, usually i do about 30 min or so cardio and the other 30 weight training and abdominal crunches. i eat healthy i stay within my calories i been trying to eat only the 1200, sometimes i go over. but either way i dont see why i am not losing any weight. I took my inches today and they didn't change at all. The last time i did them was a little over a week ago. I dont understand this somebody help me understand please.

I went to the gym for a month straight on a daily basis and stayed within my calories limits and was not losing weight. I didn't give it any thought that when I was doing my 30 minutes of cardio, I was not busting a sweat, I just took it as 30 minutes is 30 minutes..I did it, why am I not losing weight?
Once I started intensifying that 30 minutes of cardio and resistance training using weights..weight started dropping fast.
For example - I was doing elliptical for 30 minutes at level 4 everyday and was like..."something has got to give, how come I am not losing". Once I started switching level 4 for 4 minutes to level 9 for the next 4 minutes, etc. etc. I started losing.
Maybe switch up your routine and make sure you are getting the most out of that workout.
Same with weights...for example working my triceps I would lift 20 lbs at a time and do about 5 sets of 12 reps...then I realized I can actually lift 60 lbs with no problem. For me doing weights when I first try to lose...really helps take those lbs off.
GOOD LUCK TO YOU.