Gaining instead of losing :(

I agree with the above. The first week I started losing weight I lost 6lbs or so, then nothing for sooo loooong. I was trying so hard and doing everything "right". Sometimes you just need to let your body catch up. Now the weight is steadily coming off at 1-2lbs per week and it seems effortless. I swear! Breaking old habits and creating new ones is the hardest part. Your body will do its part when its ready.

And also like the above poster said, there's so many other awesome things that happen as a result of eating healthier and exercising. I don't have anymore heartburn or stomach issues either. I used to have insomnia and take some heavy sleeping pills just to function at work, but since exercising regularly I sleep like a giant baby with no help from drugs. Life is good and I am never turning back! Keep at it!

But are you losing fat? That is what you really want, remember that muscles weight more than fat. Also it may take a while of eating healthy before your body kicks in and start working the way you want it to be. I had the same problem but notice that my belt went down couple of holes and my weight didn't go down at all. that tells me that my belly is going down but muscles are either getting firm or growing. Don't worry too much as long as you are losing fat, stay away from the scale for a month or two... you will see your ideal weight later on.

I would really focus on the food logging and exercise logging, along with, getting mfp friends to kind of make you feel you should check in.

go on your profile and input all the appropriate numbers to see where you are going over or under on calories!

It is a great place to start.

I put myself as light activity and eat my exercise calories back-and want to lose .5 a week.

try it!

Are you exercising? If so, always remember muscle weights more than fat so you may be gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time and the scale may be misleading. Monitor your waistline inches count.Those night craving is not helping if you must eat at night may I suggest eating foods high in protein since your body burns more caloric energy doing so, lay off carbs it's the last thing you need at night. Add me or join my group. "A healthy me is a wealthy me" Good luck, talk soon.

I am fairly new and only joined the site last week. Tomorrow morning will be my first official weight-in i.e. my 1 week weigh in. I was really excited when I found this site as it was like a whole new way of dieting. It seems that you can have the odd "cheat" as long as you work it in to your daily allowance and don't eat more calories than you are allowed to. For me, this was a very exciting concept as it meant that I could possibly avoid feeling like I am losing out, which I often feel on other, stricter diets. But, not to demotivate anyone but according to the scale this morning, I weigh exactly the same as when I started the diet nearly a week ago! Like I say, tomorrow morning will be my one week weigh-in and I'm really scared that my weight will be the same or possibly even more. I was so hoping that this would be the weight-loss programme for me! Anyone else experience very slow weight loss? Please motivate me. And I haven't been exercising so my lack of weight loss is not due to muscle development.

I weigh exactly the same as when I started the diet nearly a week ago!

A week is NOT enough time to be discouraged yet.

Did you gain all of your excess weight in one week? GIVE IT TIME (think of it as a marathon...not a sprint). Keep doing what you're doing and don't be impatient.