Want to Quit everything...not losing anything

Don't be discouraged! This site and plan is easy to use but it seems, like the other responders have mentioned, your diary is all over the place. You should be logging all your food in and eating within your allotted calories. You can eat more food mentioned if you eat back your exercise calories. Making good food choices works well too!

You can do this! Just takes a little time, planning and dedication. I've done weight watchers, jenny craig, slim fast, atkins, fasting...etc. You name it, I've prob tried it. But honestly, this plan is helping me actually "learn" to eat better, choose healthier options, discover new activities, and has one hell of a community for support.

You can do this!

Use this to get you going:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/974888-in-place-of-a-road-map-2k13

Do this. The end.

Since you really only have 10-20lbs to lose, its going to take a while to notice the change, and those changes are going to be much better if you incorporate strength training (like heavy lifting) and moderate to minimal cardio.

My suggestion:
- Pick up New Rules of Lifting for Women (Starting Strength and Stronglifts are another good place to start)
- Find out your TDEE, eat about 0.5-1lb less in calories per week
- Eat at least 100g of protein, preferably 1-1.5g per lb of lean body mass
- Eat at least 0.3g fat per lb of bodyweight
- Do cardio when you feel like it (preferably short HIIT sessions a couple times a week if your schedule is tight or some longer LISS sessions on a bike... no running a marathon three times a week... or really anything much over a couple miles or 20-30min)
- Track your food as accurately as possible, weigh, measure everything that goes in your mouth
- Do this for 6-8 weeks and then see how your progress is

When people say they are going to "quit" or "give up" I am always confused. Quit and go back to what? Eat whatever you want and potentially have life threatening health problems in the future? Even if I didn't lose a pound, but I was exercising and eating a healthy diet, I would still see that as a positive change and the scale is not the end all result of my hard work.

You need to eat more. Or less. One of those.

I agree with everyone here regarding learning about macros. I started off without MFP eating what I thought were 'healthy' foods and increased my weight by 3kg which was very disheartening. I decided I needed to log my food portions and joined this site, this showed me two things 1. My portion sizes were way too large, and 2. Those 'healthy' foods were filled with hidden salt and sugars. I educated myself here about BMR, TDEE and the value of daily exercise and have since lost that extra 3kg+.
As someone here pointed out, weigh your portions and also make logging on here part of your daily routine to keep yourself motivated.

There are plenty fine folks on here to offer support to those willing to help themselves, most of all stay positive!

It makes me angry that alot of people are accusing me of eating junk just because I didn't log in for that day. I have been watching every little thing I eat.

Its a pretty common trend on here for people who don't log for a day to have completely gone off the deep end with food choices and volume.

Its a waste of time and energy to get angry at people on a public forum where you posted a question seeking advice. Did you expect all sunshine and rainbows?

So you can sit there pissed and defensive about someone questioning how honest your diaries have been or you can take the constructive criticism to heart, start making the right changes and start seeing results. Pretty obvious choice to me.

Constructive criticism/tips made, included but not limited to:
Are you logging accurately?
Are you logging consistently?
Look into In Place of A Road Map and do everything it says for at least 4-6 weeks and then rant again if it didn't work
This site doesn't determine your success, you do
And finally and by far the best, my step by step post of how to see the best results for minimal weight loss but optimal fat loss, but I might be a little biased on that one

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You've clearly not done any research on this.

Pointing out that its difficult to give advice when your diary looks to be spotty and incomplete isn't the same as "accusing you of eating junk."

It looks, to me, like sometimes you're logging multiple meals under one meal -- which is not a problem. Other meals don't seem to be logged, and we can't tell if youre skipping the meal or skipping *logging* the meal.

If you're going to say that you think the tool doesn't work, people are going to talk about how you're using the tool.

I'd recommend making a couple of simple goals. One of them is to try to log everything for a week. Another is that if you've been eyeballing portions, try measuring or weighting.

It's hard to know what do to next if you don't have good data on what you've been doing.

Just look at WHAT you are eating instead of how much, or maybe in addition to (like everyone else said check out macros) For me it was focusing on carbs and sugar but everyone is different (by carbs and sugar i mean pizza, cookies, brownies, cake, general junk food ...) but just experiment with you, and figure out what makes you feel good bla bla bla - basically what everything else said. Exercising helps for me Keeps me motivated in the food department because after a morning workout when faced with that cake at work I can easily resist it because i don't want to just cancel out all my hard work! GoOD luck don't quit!!!!!!!

and i'm jst saying what works for me you have to figure out you lots of experimenting week by week to figure that out!