As said above, you need to make sure you're eating enough. You don't have your diary open so I can't see. You need to figure out your daily calorie expenditure (TDEE) and then eat 15-20% below that. For me, my average daily TDEE is between 2000-2100 a day, so I eat about 17% below that (gross calories) and I don't eat exercise calories as that's already factored in. I've had success doing this and I am 1/2 way through Push and seeing results. I'm excited to get through the program. I don't use the food guide that came with CLX. I typically eat protein at breakfast (omelette with veg and protein), I eat every 2-3 hours (shake in the moring, or fruit). For lunch I have salad with protein, then I eat again mid afternoon (usually a protein bar and fruit), for dinner I have healthy carbs with protein... Protein, Protein, Protein!! They say to eat a gram of protein per your lean body mass weight. For me that's around 100g of protein a day. I eat what I want but count everything and try to stay within my calorie goal and macros each day.

Here's a couple of good online calculators to figure out your BMR and TDEE (note that they are guesses. if you want an accurate TDEE you should buy a Fitbit - best thing I ever bought)!:

http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/bmr/
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

PM me if you have questions. I don't do Shakeology but I've heard a lot of good things about it and I have a great BeachBody Coach if you want her name.

Lisa

I closed my diary because I had some people being a little too critical. I will indulge in a sweet treat...I allow for it in my calories. 90-95% of my eating is healthful choices. I do not believe in deprivation.

I have my MFP calories set at 1880 a day. My macros are 30 (fat)/30 (carbs)/40 (protein).

Here is a typical day for me:
I drink 8-16 ounces of cold water as soon as I wake up.

Breakfast (I have this almost every day): Smoothie (1/2 cup of frozen strawberries, 1/4 cup of frozen blueberries, 1/4 cup of frozen blackberries, one-third of a frozen banana....to that I add 3/4 cup of unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 6 oz container of nonfat plain Greek yogurt, 2 tablespoons of ground flax seed, teaspoon of cinnamon, and a cup of fresh kale). I have this 5 or 6 days a week for breakfast. It's 355 calories and altogether has about 27 grams of protein.

That's at around 6:45 - 7:00 a.m.
At 10:00 a.m., I have a protein snack...sometimes it's an ounce of 2% fat Kraft block cheddar cheese...sometimes it's turkey spinach meatballs I make from scratch...sometimes it's a Light Babybel cheese.

I eat lunch around 12:30...this varies, but it's always something pretty healthful...like today I had a Joseph's brand pita pocket (small) that has flax and protein added in, with low-sodium turkey lunch meat, a teaspoon of Bolthouse farms salsa yogurt dressing (15 calories), and lettuce and onion. No cheese (which kills me because a sandwich NEEDS cheese...lol. I had 8 Lay's potato chips. I also had a Skinny Cow candy bar (110 cals). I do splurge on little treats when the mood strikes me, but I don't go over my calories for the day.

I drink 40 ounces of fresh brewed green tea from 7 a.m up to lunch (finish the rest at lunch). I never drink soda or fruity beverages or sports drinks.

Afternoon snack is usually around 3 to 3:30...this varies, too. Today it is a Gala apple with the PB2 & yogurt dip I make (nonfat vanilla Greek yogurt, PB2, touch of honey, dash of cinnamon). Somedays, like yesterday, it was organic blue corn tortilla chips and hummus. Somedays it's turkey spinach meatballs. And so on. Something with a lot of protein if I can help it.

Somedays I will go to Starbucks after school and get a tall skinny ice chai....but again, I don't go over in calories hardly ever on any given day.

Dinner is usually around 7 or 8. I try to eat light but a lot of times, I have a LOT of calories and protein left because I teach school and it is HARD to eat during the day. Those times I listed above are pretty set...the 10 snack is between two classes-I'm scarfing down my protein snack while the kids are entering the room. Lunch is at 12:30. Other than that, it's difficult to eat a lot...so when I leave school around 4 or 5, I have to get home and try to find energy to work out...it's hard to consume a lot of food right before I am going to work out. But then I'm left with a lot of calories at night. So sometimes, I'll eat 6 or 7 ounces of chicken breast just to take up some of the calories I have left and to get in more protein.

I drink water and 100% cranberry juice (not the cocktail, but real organic 100% juice) at night. I almost always get in at least 10-11 glasses of water/green tea every day.

I just don't know how to eat I guess. I don't know how to fit it all in in a day. I really thought I'd see better results by now. But maybe the Lean phase will be where it happens...?