Difficult Start

To begin with just logging calories and being honest about what you eat is a fantastic start! If you're still hungry after your allotted calories then maybe try and change some of the foods you eat for lower calorie options so that you can eat more which should help you feel fuller. Also, if you have your MFP set to loose a large amount each week it will allow less calories than if you choose to loose slower, so maybe change your settings a little to allow some extra calories? For exercise at home, there are loads of workouts on youtube, look for some beginner stuff if you don't usually do much. Another great way to exercise without spending is just stick on some music and dance

Wow, you have a lot on your mind. First, there is a wealth of info on here......do a search for any question you have, or do what you just did and ask. I have only been at this since the first of the year so I am no expert. Study what BMR and TDEE are and why they are important. As far as exercising is concerned, just walk, all you can. Weight loss is pretty simple, eat less and move more, take in less calories than you burn and you will lose weight. But do it the healthy way. Oh, and do it for you, not him.

Let me tell you that you don't need to kill yourself to start dropping weight. By all means if you can move a little more it's fantastic but it is NOT required when you are just starting. Weight loss is 80-90% about how much you eat. Start small, don't try to change everything all in one shot, don't cut out everything from your 'diet' - If you are hungry you are not eating enough - I guarantee it.

At age 26, 280 lbs (I assumed 5 feet) you NEED around 2000 calories just to lay in bed all day and do NOTHING. If you are like most people you have not modified your MFP settings from the default - you told it you want to lose 2lb/s week (which for someone with 100 lbs to lose is EASY). The problem comes because MFP does not consider your stats at all - I can't see your diary so I don't know how many calories it's telling you to eat but for 80% of new people it will give them @1200 calories a day.. You NEED 2000...You eat 1200.. Easy to see why you are hungry and not losing as much weight as you think you should be. It is VITAL that you learn about BMR/TDEE - search for it here or at least read the roadmap http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12.

Above all take it SLOW, take it easy, make SMALL changes, take BABY steps.. Get your calories right, THEN make small changes a little at a time until you are comfortable with food. THEN you can start adding more exercise, but make sure you are feeding your body to compensate for the extra activity. Not eating enough leads to stalling weight loss. Enjoy your calories while you can eat them because as you lose you will need to adjust a little.

I started at 220 - eating about 1800 - I' down about 40lbs now and down to 1500 + exercise. Still losing, no stalls - average about 1.8/week for the past 7 months. Nice healthy sustainable losses with NO working out at all until just recently and now I do ONE class of zumba for about 50 minutes/ week. I wouldn't call it hard work. I will increase my exercise as I get closer to my goal but for now I am happy and healthier then I have been in many many years and I should hit my goal weight by late summer and THAT makes me very happy

Good luck!

I am taking up couchto5K. Simple walk/jog. I am tried of gym and workout dvds. I plan on strapping my daughter in her stroller and plan on going for walk/jog. Check out http://www.runningforbeginners.com/jogging-5k/.

Hey,we;ve all started somewhere, don't give up. Im trying to put fiber in my diet, not thru food just benefiber is all, keeps me fuller after a meal, I just put some in a glass of whatever I am drinking before a meal and there ya go, it helps, but get the unflavored kind, no taste. As far as exercising you dont kneed anything more than to just try and walk, even if its only 10 mins, thats how I started.

Keep the food diary, if your honest with yourself, nothing will stop you....................

Look on Craigslist for a cheap stationary bike or whatever you like to do.

I started with a treadmill, switched to a stationary bike, and now am Wii bowling and dancing, keep it real and the weight will come off
and allow you to do more. And JUST DO IT FOR YOURSELF!!!!!
Go get it girl its there for you!


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Pick something that you can COMMIT TO. Give it a timeframe and do it (i.e.- 30 days, 6 days/wk). In that time, build a HABIT.

Hello,
I don't think exercise is a must, like others have said its mostly about what you eat, but I found that just walking more made a big difference. I tried to go for at least three walks a week, and I really noticed my fitness improve over the walks and was amazed by how much difference just walking made. I hate just walking for the sake of it, so I tried to build walks into my every day routine - walking to the supermarket rather than catching the bus etc. I know that this can be much harder in the US than here in the UK because of distances, but it might be possible.

As I felt myself getting fitter I felt the need to step up the exercise a bit so I got a bicycle! I now try to go for at least 3 rides every week, as well as a bit of walking too and that has definitely impacted on my fitness as well - inclines I found tough at first seem flat now after 3 weeks of riding. This week I'm trying to ride every day, so I'll see how that goes. I realised how much it had impacted my fitness yesterday when I was helping my friend move out of her house. She lives on the 4th floor and we had to carry heavy furniture up and down and I was going up those stairs and getting to the top and feeling pretty good and still able to talk without having to catch my breath, so I was pretty pleased with myself and it made me realise how much impact I'd made only fitness just through walking and cycling.

The extra motivation for me is that if I go for a walk, I can eat more... I eat back my calories and if I earn 400 calories on an 8 mile bike ride (to the shops and back) that's 400 extra calories I can play with. Perhaps that shouldn't be a motivator for me but it is, and I figure thinking like that now will help me continue to think like that once I get to maintenance as I will still think I need to earn the treats...

For some comparison, I've lost around 50lbs since October last year doing this as well as counting calories (some from before I started logging on mfp) and 9" off my bust, 7" off my waist and 8" off my hips, and gone down three dress sizes, so it really does work. Happy to be friended if you'd like. Good luck with your journey, I think getting started is the hardest part!