One week in with no pounds lost...Please help!

. . . right. Best of luck in week 2. :grumble:

*hug*

I wish I had had your tough love years ago..lol

. . . right. Best of luck in week 2. :grumble:

*hug*

I wish I had had your tough love years ago..lol

Hahah, thanks. It's hard to know that good advice will be ignored, and that comment up there about "set your daily calorie deficit at no more than a 1000 calories (less is better)" is going to get misinterpreted by OP as setting her caloric intake target to 1,000 or less. Within four weeks of two-a-days and malnourishment, after several uncontrollable binging episodes, she'll decide that diet and exercise are way, way too hard, that she can't do it, and quit. As has been seen here again and again and again by people who think it needs to be difficult in order to work.

And following on what Emanyalpsid is going on...I would suggest looking at this link to see what your TDEE is set at. To be honest, I tried 1200 because I thought that was what I was supposed to do. ....1200 and less. I did that and could barely get through a 30 min workout. Getting my TDEE set correctly not only allowed me to have energy because, well, FOOD = ENERGY....But now I can easily do 600+ calorie burns...I've even hit 1600! I could not have done that on a 1200 cal diet..lol.

Not only did I gain more energy but I realized what I had been doing was dangerous. When I was doing 1200 and less, I ended up depriving myself of protein even more than I was before I started tracking my calories and am now very protein deficient...and I'm not saying that just due to the macro #s..but because I am experiencing the side effects of lack of proper nutrition - especially with protein due to me trying to deprive myself because I didn't educate myself on fitness/health.

If you want, check out this link by MFPer Heliotsdan - http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

It'll give you a detailed walkthrough (with pictures even) on finding your TDEE and calculating what you should be eating.

Also, if you are worried about the calorie intake, I also suggest you read this thread that has numerous people who met their goals and are maintaining. Some for years and they also provide their calorie intake and how often they work out.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/816542-let-s-hear-it-for-maintainenance


For more information about fitness and nutrition, I highly suggest checking out and joining this group:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/10118-eat-train-progress

Read all the stickies. It's great information to know.

They could be swollen with water easily, yes

What have you been eating/drinking ?

Some people on here will tell you not to pay attention to the scale, but in your first week I'd believe you would notice a decent weight loss on the scale.... unless you're not eating/drinking right.

I agree with jacksonpt. Body changes are gradual, nowhere near as black and white as a number on scale. Also, if you're training with enough intensity and eating clean, there's no reason for multiple workouts in a day.

Sorry but you need to give it time and see it as a lifestyle change and not judge your success strictly off the scale. During my weight lose adventures (still losing and struggling), I can tell you I have had many stalls. One week is nothing in the spectrum of it all, keep doing what you are doing! Eventually, you will see changes on the scale or in how your clothing fit you.

I wish you much success!

The first thing this morning I weighed myself on this end to my first week of ‘training’ only to realize that I have not lost a pound. I don’t understand...I have done two workouts a day with Jillian Michaels and or other cardio (Elliptical). Sooo...feeling a bit out of sorts with my same weight staring me in the face as when I started last week I went to the Support & Motivation section of MFP. Before I could post anything I read about this lady who’s husband said some nasty things to her. It immediately turned my focus off of me and on to her. I posted my message to her and in doing so all of a sudden didn’t need to post anything for my personal dilemma. I pulled myself up just by extending my hand to someone else.

That being said, to address my issue I’m going to adjust what type of calories I am putting into my body, less/no bad carbs & sugar. I have been having just one small bite of something sweet each day...no more, that’s finished. I did have a little salty stuff a couple of times last week, but I’ve been drinking lots of water to flush that out, as well as, sweating profusely during my workouts. I am retaining quite a bit of water weight this week, 46.5% according to my weight scale. I’m not really sure how accurate that number is, but it is an ‘upscale’ scale. lol I’m almost completely a vegetarian. Once in a while I will have a little fish. If anyone has anything constructive to contribute that would help me reach my goal I would appreciate it.

. . . right. Best of luck in week 2. :grumble:

*hug*

I wish I had had your tough love years ago..lol

Hahah, thanks. It's hard to know that good advice will be ignored, and that comment up there about "set your daily calorie deficit at no more than a 1000 calories (less is better)" is going to get misinterpreted by OP as setting her caloric intake target to 1,000 or less. Within four weeks of two-a-days and malnourishment, after several uncontrollable binging episodes, she'll decide that diet and exercise are way, way too hard, that she can't do it, and quit. As has been seen here again and again and again by people who think it needs to be difficult in order to work.

There are so many constructive and informative responses to my posts. Yours is not one of them. I have no idea to whom you are referring. You’re psychic reading does not resemble me in the least. I hope you didn’t hurt yourself jumping to conclusions. You shouldn’t pretend to know me especially when... You have no idea who I am, what I think, my level of intelligence or how diligent I am in accomplishing my goals. Clearly YOU are the one who MISINTERPRETED my request for constructive contributions that would help me reach my goal. Quite frankly, you haven’t given any good advice yet. You are the one blathering on about me GIVING UP! I certainly hope you are not in the business of talking people down off the ledge... I feel sorry for you that you have so much hostility inside and choose to take it out on others. Good Luck with that...


Again, I would like to thank all the friendly, knowledgable contributors to this post. I WILL take their helpful advice and put it to good use.

By the way, it WAS water weight...I dropped my pound over night. Woo Hoo!!!

did you poop?

assuming your counting macros i would adjust the daily caloric deficit by 200 additional cals and wait one more week to see if the trend continues. It's quite possible your body is recompositioning itself in terms of muscle gain. Keep up the hard work and always remain optimistic in your goals!!