In need of advice, today

If you are 100 pounds overweight, eating 1400 calories per day and NOT eating back your exercise calories, you are not eating enough. Your body will not shed weight if it feels it is being malnourished. Eat ALL of your 1660 calories....every single one of them. And if you burn 500 doing Zumba, eat more. eAT!!!!

Shut up! Stop spreading such nonsense. With 100lbs to lose, starvation mode just ain't gunna happen, especially at 1400 cals for 2 weeks.

I wouldn't call it 'starvation mode'...there's to much nonsense to what that even is. However, the low cal diets tend to lead to stalls, and problems that the alternative does not:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/572503-why-you-should-eat-more-a-lion-s-tale?hl=a+lions+tale
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/419136-what-am-i-doing-wrong
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/419393-need-serious-help-please
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/420759-gaining-weight-on-a-low-carb-diet-please-help
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/421412-so-fed-up-there-has-to-be-an-easier-way
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/446248-why-am-i-gaining-weight
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/447513-disillusioned
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/448803-not-loosing-weight-or-inches
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/454374-gaining-with-scrict-diet-and-workouts
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/455392-no-results-at-all-despair
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/457566-why-cant-i-loose-weight-or-inches
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/457037-feeling-disheartened
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/467001-why-1200-c-a-day-and-still-no-weight-loss
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/480698-assistance-please-this-is-getting-ridiculous
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/480186-tiredness
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/487729-the-scale-wont-move
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/493331-i-need-some-straight-up-advice-on-this-dieting
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/503342-mfp-lied-help
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/509836-i-can-t-seem-to-lose-any-weight
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/517635-what-is-wrong-with-me
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/526497-1000cal-day-diet-daily-work-out-not-losing
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/552142-giving-up
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/557832-why-am-i-not-loosing-weight-help-im-doing-everything-i
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/585081-help-working-out-and-eating-1200-calories-no-change
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/589043-sick-of-trying-with-no-results
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/665625-could-someone-look-at-my-logs
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/668039-why-haven-t-i-lost-weight-in-2-weeks
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/680195-helppppp
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/705854-hair-loss
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/713154-900-calories-a-day
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/713967-not-seeing-any-progress
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/721909-1200-every-day-and-no-change-demotivated-completely
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/739340-1200cal-daily-for-3-weeks-and-havent-lost-a-single-pound
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/854231-calorie-problem
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/854236-stuck-fat
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/867360-i-m-scared
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/873449-need-advice
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/890176-not-losing-with-1200-calorie-plan
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/892991-4-weeks-dieting-and-haven-t-lost-1-pound
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/901715-anybody-busting-their-butts-and-seeing-no-results
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/905033-why-am-i-not-losing
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/905493-daily-600-net-calories-no-weight-lost-what-s-wrong
(most of those links were found by Taso).

Personally my logic goes the less I eat the less nutrients I get, the less protein I eat, the more likely I am to lose LBM where as I'd prefer to lose more fat.

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I don't disagree, but none of that has anything to do with the OP's post (frustrated from losing nothing this week after losing 2.5 last week compared to lots of rapid weight loss on previous diets). Eating too little isn't causing a stall for her at this point. Could it in time? Sure. But all things considered, I doubt she's goign to get to that point, and she certainly won't any time soon.

So again, are we addressing her post/question, or are we advising her on what she should be doing in general?

Yeah I tend to throw out advice all over the place. Welcome to the internet. I advise you to calm down. She didn't ask a question in her post. She just said she is new and felt lost and needed advice. So yep, I went with that. No need to troll.

Yes Dear.

I am replying as a woman who gave up in her 30's, 40's 50's 60's - and finally in my 70's I have realized if I give up all I will do is gain weight. I have finally listened to my body - am eating right - and if am lucky I lose about 2 - 3 pounds a MONTH! At that rate it will take me 2 years to get to the weight I can live with! No - it is not easy! Yes - it gets very frustrating! But in the long run it is worth it! It has taken me since Oct 2011 to lose 28 pounds. Not very promising results - but I fit into some clothes I have not worn in 20 years - people are beginning to notice the difference - I feel 100% better - I have incredible energy - and the best part of it is - I really feel good about my progress - be it slow! DON'T GIVE UP! Be honest and think what will happen if you give up! Good luck to you - and if you need a friend to motivate you sign me up!

Thank you for posting this! This is why I am determined not to give up. I'm 32, and I knew that when I got in my 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, I would look back and wish that I hadn't given up so quickly in my 30s. I have gone on diets before where I lost weight quickly but gained it back even faster when I stopped. I knew what I had to change was the REASON I wanted to lose weight. I had to want it for the right reason, which for me is health and fitness instead of fitting into the "right size clothes" (that's just an awesome result of the hard work instead of being the sole reason like it was before). Since I'm doing it for health and fitness, seeing the scale go up slightly doesn't make me quit anymore. I FEEL better even though my progress is SO SLOW this time. I'm ok with it.

To the OP - I hope that you don't give up! You might look back on this a year from now and think, "if I had just stuck with it then...". Imagine the guilt ten years from now imagining how much easier it would have been to stick with it ten years ago, if that makes any sense. Somewhere inside you KNOW you're doing what you should be and should therefore be seeing results, so just keep it up regardless of what the scale is saying. The scale WILL start to move in the direction you want it to if you don't quit.

Are measuring yourself? You may already be losing inches, which is a definite sign of progress. If you're not mreasuring yourself, I recommend you start. If I hadn't measured myself in the beginning, there were times when I wouldn't have known that I was making progress because the scale wasn't moving, but I was losing inches. Good luck!!

My 2nd week on MFP is coming to a close and I am feeling very discouraged. I have been on a diet, of some sort, every year for the last 21 years, since my freshman year in College. I have literally done almost every diet out there at least once. Each time that I have started a diet, I would always lose a significant amount of weight the first couple of weeks. But not this time. I lost 2 1/2 lbs the fist week and this week it looks like I might gain a lb...ugh I have been exercising, Zumba 4 times a week. I am eating less than the recommended calories. I eat between 1350 - 1400 calories (recommended 1660) each day and I don't eat the additional calories given when I work out. I have 100+ lbs to lose and I am already feeling like throwing in the towel.

I can say that I am eatig more Sugar than recommended, but I am staying below the total Carbs. I am also eating more protein. I am feeling like since I turned the the big 40 this year, things are different and I will not be able to make it work. I have never felt so discouraged during the first couple of weeks of making a change.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Feeling Lost and in need of help

I hope this comes across as tough love and not as being a jerk.

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-2 weeks is nothing. A blink. That is .0018 of your adult life. If you can't give this change a month or two, you're not ready. There's nothing wrong with not being ready, but don't waste your time/energy if you're not.
-Things are different this time? Maybe that's because you are doing something different. Unless you're happy with the way those 21 years of dieting left you, give something different a chance.
-Calories - at 100lb overweight (been there) it doesn't really matter how many calories you are eating.
--if you eat at a huge deficit, you will get a jump start on your weight loss (over the course of several weeks) but you will eventually stall and feel miserable
--if you eat at a smaller deficit, it might be a more sustainable change (this is my preference)
-Good job on the protein. Try harder on the sugar.

Don't weigh yourself. Easy enough. Hide the scale, take pics and measurements and only weigh once a month. If you are so easily discouraged after only 2 weeks, that scale is going to be your enemy. I gained 2 pounds since my last weigh-in but lost 4+ inches overall in the same time frame. If I only counted on the scale, I'd throw in the towel, too.

Either way, even if you're not losing weight, you're eating healthier and exercising, chances are you're sleeping better, have more energy, and just feel better overall. Focus on that, not on numbers.