Started a week ago and haven't seen any loss?

holy crap give it time, a week is not enough. Keep going it will happen.

Go and read your profile quote again. Give it time. You can do this:flowerforyou:

After one week?? It's likely to take anywhere from 2 - 4 weeks to see progress, depending on your circumstances. But one thing I can promise you, giving up will NOT get you results. Ever.

if youve been exercising, you're probablly adding muscle. Keep it up, it will start to come off

You can't add that much muscle in a week (especially not at a calorie deficit!)! If you weren't working out before, or have increased the intensity of your workouts, what's really happening is that your muscles are retaining water and glycogen as part of the healing process. Think of it like if you sprain your ankle, it swells, right? Same thing is happening when your muscles are sore from working out, there are tiny tears in the tissue and they swell a bit. When this happens, you're likely to either maintain or even possible gain a bit of weight. As your body adjusts to the workouts, you will start losing weight.

And yes, it would be helpful to be able to see your diaries so we can give constructive advice on your eating as well.

if youve been exercising, you're probablly adding muscle. Keep it up, it will start to come off

That is not happening.

What has happened is that only a week has passed and that's much too soon to see real results, if any! Your weight can fluctuate by as much a 5lbs due to any manner of things (that has nothing to do with fat loss) so ignore the scale and keep up a healthy lifestyle. If you don't see any changes in a month it might be worth considering double checking your diet/fitness but until then try not to worry about it.

A week? The first THREE weeks of WW I went up. THEN once my body got used to exercise and eating right the pounds started coming off. Come back to the discussion in a month if you have the same issue - and also open your food diary.

if youve been exercising, you're probablly adding muscle. Keep it up, it will start to come off

To be real, you aren't adding muscle yet...the maximum you can add per week is .5 lb

Keep going, I had had a month where I lost like 3-4 pounds and I was use to losing 10, but if you keep going, it WILL happen if you stick with it...one day you will be at -10, and it seems like the next you are at -60....keep at it!

Please take a much longer view (1 week is only about 0.02% of a lifetime) and do not pay as much attention to the scale. The scale is a result not the process. The process is a simple set of steps:
1. Set your target (say lose 1 lb a week for 52 weeks).
2. Log your daily eating and exercise.
3. Ensure that your average net weekly calories are under your target. If not then eat less and exercise more.
4. Do this for a long period of time. Where a long period is at least 2-3 months.

My personal experience on this now 8 month (~ 32 weeks) is that some weeks the scale happens to shows a weight loss on the 1 week mark and sometimes not but over the long run the weight is lost.

BTW - I weigh myself everyday (roughly the same time, always the same place) and it is fascinating to watch the variance. One observation so far is that how my weight chnages has almost nothing to do with how I am feeling. Some days I am feeling heavy and dispirited and suddenly the weight is gone and other days I feel like I have done everything right and should be lighter and the scale jumps up (a lot). However, my weight change has always followed my long term net average calorie intake. Meaning when this is below my target the weight goes away.

Sorry for long post. Hope this helps.

Took me a month to start losing weight....clothes started feeling looser sooner though. Sometimes you lose inches before pounds. Don't let the scale frustrate you.

Give yourself three more weeks & you'll be shocked. Make sure that you're eating enough, too. My first month I ate 1200 (net 800-900) & didn't see anything. Now that I'm eating properly (1700-1800 a day) & strength training, I see results after a month! They're tiny, but they're there & slowly building up to something grand. You can do this! Don't look at the scale, look at the inches falling off. You'll feel much better that way

The hardest thing to do is lose weight because it happens just like weight gain. It's going to sneak up on you. My suggestion is STOP WEIGHING YOURSELF EVERY DAY/WEEK! You should weigh/measure yourself once a month. You will be able to see progress better this way and feel like you are progressing. One week is NOT enough time for you to see any progression. You have to keep going. Weight loss will not happen overnight, or in a week. If you truly want to meet your goals, you have to give yourself time. Everything will come in time. When you have a child, it takes 9 months to make it. When you work towards your degree, it takes you 4 years.. And when you are trying to lose weight, that will take TIME. Keep it up! You can do this! Don't give up on yourself just because you don't see results yet. Keep going and keep working!

holy crap give it time, a week is not enough. Keep going it will happen.

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Don't worry, things will start happening soon, one thing you should never do is give up, there are plenty of people on here that will tell you all sorts of things, but you know why you started eating healthy and you need to keep it up,

There is a lot of support out there just remember you are doing this to become healthy, please add me and we can keep each other company, I started last week but only lost the 1lb cause I hadn't been eating due to a chest infection

Have you measured yourself?

Give it some time--around 'that time of the month', I gain 7-8 pounds regardless of what I eat or drink, and a week later it's gone. Maybe it's just getting to be around that time for you.

Hello, I understand how you are feeling...its happened to me as well. Is this a new exercise program you are following? I found some information on how when starting a new routine your body reacts, in particular muscle.
A new exercise program changes the chemical makeup of your muscles as an adaptive response to increased activity. The changes that take place in your muscles after exercise prepare them for more of the same by storing additional fuel for energy. Muscles replenish glycogen stores after a workout, and water retention is a natural side effect of this process.
For every gram of glycogen you store, 2.7 g of water is also retained in the muscle. This happens not only as a result of new exercise programs but also takes place after workouts in an established exercise regimen. Glycogen stores are needed to fuel muscles during physical activity. When exercise depletes glycogen stores, more carbohydrates get converted to glycogen, and water retention results.
Although replenished glycogen stores continue to attract water after exercise even in established routines, the process may be more noticeable in a new exercise program if you're trying to lose weight. You may see temporary weight gain, for example, or not lose as much weight as you expect initially. However, if you consistently burn more calories than you consume, water retained by your muscles after exercise will have little or no effect on your weight goals
So chin up! Easier said than done right...hang in there and keep doing what you are doing. If after say a month there is no change including measurements not just the scale then take a look at changing something up.