Grrr!! Getting discouraged!

Water weight - Take measurements instead.

At a quick glance I would double check the numbers on some of your homemade, some seem a little low.

I took a look at your diary... you aren't eating enough! Eating only 700 a day is a big NO NO. You HAVE to eat at least 1200 calories or your body goes into starvation mode and turns whatever you eat into fat. So go have some healthy snacks and give your body the fuel it needs to run for the day.

Well first off, it's been what - less than a month? Gotta give it time.

Second, after looking at your diary, you are not eating nearly enough. MFP has you set at the bare minimum of a 1200 calorie goal. And goal means GOAL - not 400 under, not 500 under, not to mention all the cals you burned through exercise. :noway:

Your daily goal has a deficit built in already - meaning eat to goal, the full 1200 calories, every day and do zero exercise, and you would lose weight. When you exercise and burn more cals, you're creating a HUGE deficit, which is not good. Food is fuel, and you gotta fuel that furnace if you want it to burn. Eat too little for too long and you're giving your body a reason to store fat rather than burn it.

Looks like you have about 45lbs to lose? If so, set your weekly loss goal to no more than 1 lb a week. Eat your calories, drink plenty of water, exercise, get good rest. Take progress photos and measurements - these will often show progress when the scale doesn't. And be patient - we didn't gain the extra weight in a few weeks, and we won't lose it in a few weeks. It takes time, but it's worth it. And slow and steady is the way to go if you want to keep it off. Develop good healthy habits that you can stick to, so it's a lifestyle change, not a temporary diet or exercise plan - temporary changes = temporary results.

You need to eat more... I looked through your diary and your eating on average around 700-800 net cals per day... you should be netting at least 1200 on the low side meaning you eat 1200 calories, but then if you exercise and burn, lets say 300 calories, you have to eat those calories too, with a total of 1500 calories net to cover your exercise. Your body will fight you, and even though your metabolism can not "stop" from eating to little, it will slow down in order to protect itself. My second week here I was eating only 1200 calories and didn't lose anything, I upped my cals to closer to 1400 and started losing consitantly... Starving yourself to lose weight is a myth, and makes this a lot harder than it needs to be Good luck!

1. Your not eating enough. Yesterday you ate a net of 200 calories. I also am not sure if your tracking correctly or all of it. You wrote that you had spaghetti sauce made with turkey and garli toast but did you not have noodles with it?

2. Sme of your homemade items my be inaccurate also. You said you ate a half ham and cheese sandwich ( I don't remember what day) and that it was something like 140 ish calories. There is no way that's true. The bread alone should be around 90 calories a slice, cheese around 100 and then add the ham and whatever condiments.

3. Eat more! Your odd needs nutritious flourish. Your protien lacks considering your workouts. Try to recalculate your macros to 40 % carbs 30% fat 30% protien it wil get you eating m ore lean meats and protien dense foods. Also I noticed a lot of shakes and snack type foods. Add some more veggies and and fruits

Nope, no noodles. Not a big fan of spaghetti noodles. I like pasta once in awhile but not all the time. I actually prefer the sauce on top of the cheese toast better.

There was no cheese on the sandwich but I couldn't find that option. Just plain. It was a whole wheat junior bun and a slice of ham.

So the better way to log your sandwich would have been to break it down rather than trust the foods already entered. S enter in the bun separately and the ham seperately. It take slime to build your recipes but you can get much more accurate data. Lots of the foods already listed are completely wrong as seem people like to fool themselves when entering to stay under thier goal.

But all that aside the real problem you have is your not eating enough. You need to make sure that your NET calories are at the goal given you by MFP. S if you eat 1200 and then burn 400 you need to add another real to equal 400 to get back to 1200. Your net is often below 500-700 a day.

1. Your not eating enough. Yesterday you ate a net of 200 calories. I also am not sure if your tracking correctly or all of it. You wrote that you had spaghetti sauce made with turkey and garli toast but did you not have noodles with it?

2. Sme of your homemade items my be inaccurate also. You said you ate a half ham and cheese sandwich ( I don't remember what day) and that it was something like 140 ish calories. There is no way that's true. The bread alone should be around 90 calories a slice, cheese around 100 and then add the ham and whatever condiments.

3. Eat more! Your odd needs nutritious flourish. Your protien lacks considering your workouts. Try to recalculate your macros to 40 % carbs 30% fat 30% protien it wil get you eating m ore lean meats and protien dense foods. Also I noticed a lot of shakes and snack type foods. Add some more veggies and and fruits

I definitely agree she should be eating more But about the sandwich, my bread is 50 cals per slice (natures own 100% whole wheat) but your point was a good one, she should be putting in her specific ingredients for the foods she makes otherwise shes relying on the idea that someone else's food they made was the exact same brand, and calorie dense.

Well first off, it's been what - less than a month? Gotta give it time.

Second, after looking at your diary, you are not eating nearly enough. MFP has you set at the bare minimum of a 1200 calorie goal. And goal means GOAL - not 400 under, not 500 under, not to mention all the cals you burned through exercise. :noway:

Your daily goal has a deficit built in already - meaning eat to goal, the full 1200 calories, every day and do zero exercise, and you would lose weight. When you exercise and burn more cals, you're creating a HUGE deficit, which is not good. Food is fuel, and you gotta fuel that furnace if you want it to burn. Eat too little for too long and you're giving your body a reason to store fat rather than burn it.

Looks like you have about 45lbs to lose? If so, set your weekly loss goal to no more than 1 lb a week. Eat your calories, drink plenty of water, exercise, get good rest. Take progress photos and measurements - these will often show progress when the scale doesn't. And be patient - we didn't gain the extra weight in a few weeks, and we won't lose it in a few weeks. It takes time, but it's worth it. And slow and steady is the way to go if you want to keep it off. Develop good healthy habits that you can stick to, so it's a lifestyle change, not a temporary diet or exercise plan - temporary changes = temporary results.

Well spoken advice. I totally agree.

If you can't find the exact option you are looking for in the database, you would be better off piecing the meal together by ingredients - i.e. putting in your bread, then putting in the meat in your sandwich, then condiments etc.