Discouraging first week on Herbalife

Is 1,280 cals a day undereating?

23 yr old 6 foot female, 180 lbs

Uh, ya.

For your height and weight, I would say yes, 1280 is under eating. I'm 5'8" and eat 1800+ a day and lost fat/weight, still working on whittling the fat down a bit (hit goal weight eating this way).

Likely your BMR, basically your coma calories, is higher than 1280, so you're giving your body very little fuel for being an upright, walking & talking, active woman as opposed to a comatose one.

Great info here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/937712-in-place-of-a-road-map-ver-3-0

It walks you through the whole process, find your BMR and your TDEE, and eat in between those numbers. Adjust your macros to what's recommended there too, and aim for goal every day. Eat well, exercise, rest, repeat.

I suggest you go over to fat2fitradio.com and use their calculators to establish your body fat percentage and what it will take to get to your goal.

I know nothing about Herbalife, but the loss sounds fine to me. You shouldn't try and lose more than one or two pounds a week, particularly as you don't have that much to lose. It doesn't sound like you are eating enough actually. At 6 ft you need more calories than that a day I'm sure! (I'm 5ft 11, around the same weight as you with the same goal, but I started off at 229). Some will say ( including me ) that you need to eat the exercise calories too, so if you are working out 5 days a week that's a lot of calories. Others will say they never eat them, so it's your choice really. The loss rate is fine. I'm not sure you need the Herbalife though. Good old fashioned exercise and diet control does the trick! Good luck! Friend me if you would like my support:)

For your height and weight you should be eating no less than 1500 calories a day. You don't need Herbal life, just eat real food, drink water and move more and the weight will come off. You are young and your metabolism is probably pretty high.

I'm 5'11, 150.8 (today), eating 1600+/daily and lost 2.2lbs last week.

I did Herbalife for a year, and even sold the stuff. It works okay.... best benefit is that the shakes taste ammazing. Other than that all the pills to take are really a waste of time. Same with the tea, I was able to save money getting the stuff I needed from a store or a site instead of buying it all from them. I have many bottles I don't use they just go to waste. I was decently successful, I did a round of p90x with herbalife and lost 20 pounds in 90 days. So the pound a week depending on the type of workouts is just fine. With a few of the sup's make sure you are consuming a lot of water, like 10+ glasses a day.