I blew it!

Hi guys, I signed up here about a week ago because I wanted to lose some weight and wasn't really sure where to start or what to do.

I've been working a desk job about three years, and have put on about 50 pounds without making any lifestyle changes during that three years. (ate the same foods, did the same amount of "exercise", etc. all that changed was I worked at a desk instead of on my feet)

So the past week I've been eating pretty healthy-ish, or at least a lot more healthy than I had been previously, and I guess it has ONLY been a week, but in the past week of doing usually an hour of exercise a day (from 0 seconds a day previously), and cutting back from a 5000-6000 calorie a day diet to usually 1000 or less, I have gained twelve pounds. In a week.

Any protips?

"So the past week I've been eating pretty healthy-ish"

So me the diary on how you can put on 12 pounds in one week - unless its water weight - sodium

I am sorry, when I posted my reply, your dairy was closed. After looking at it, you should try and make some changes. Breakfast try and eat more protein - plain yogurt, milk, fruits - even make a smoothie (yogurt, milk, banana, peanut or almond butter) throw in some cereal) very filling and more nutritious than what you are having right now.

Lunch: large salad with chicken, meat or fish, even eggs (whatever is your fancy) even a slice or two of bread.

Dinner: smashed potatoes with any of the above or rice with the same, couscous, home made bake sweet potatoes fries along with mixed vegetables. You could even give yourself a treat with dinner (that's up to your and your daily calories). If you fancy ice cream, exercise for 30 minutes more - that's what I do. Make sue that you eat 1200 calories or more, otherwise you are going to feel very lethargic (trust me I went through this), now I am on 1400 and eat back some of my exercise calories so that I am able to exercise every day if I want to.

Don't forget the water, flushes out your kidney and go easy on the sodium - some people on here do not see the reason for this, but sodium and my scale are best friends.

Hi guys, I signed up here about a week ago because I wanted to lose some weight and wasn't really sure where to start or what to do.

I've been working a desk job about three years, and have put on about 50 pounds without making any lifestyle changes during that three years. (ate the same foods, did the same amount of "exercise", etc. all that changed was I worked at a desk instead of on my feet)

So the past week I've been eating pretty healthy-ish, or at least a lot more healthy than I had been previously, and I guess it has ONLY been a week, but in the past week of doing usually an hour of exercise a day (from 0 seconds a day previously), and cutting back from a 5000-6000 calorie a day diet to usually 1000 or less, I have gained twelve pounds. In a week.

Any protips?

"So the past week I've been eating pretty healthy-ish"

Can you give me some advice. O 4/9/13 I weighed 363lbs. I started going to the gym and stopped drinking soda on this same day. I dont eat fast food any more. I have dropped 30 lbs to this day. I just feel with all the exercises and food sacrificing im doing, I should have lost more. What am I doing wrong?

What scale did you use to measure yourself the first time? If you are getting consistent results now on two scales it could be that the first measurement was the one that was wrong.

Either way i'd just forget that it looked like you gained 12lbs and just work from the weight you have that has proven consistent and move forward.

Dude, you NEED to track your recipes. You have no idea what was in the recipe or how big a serving was when some random person put in a food.

It is a huge pain but you have to do it. Weigh and input each ingredient, divide by how many servings it makes.

Because it IS such a pain my meals are usually really simple, like a steak with a salad or something and I just make a single serving of it at a time.

My first measurement was 235 pounds on Wii Fit, one week ago. I hadn't used the game in years, so after doing my Wii Fit weigh in I used my actual bathroom scale to make sure it was accurate, the bathroom scale (one week ago) also said 235 on it.

This morning, right when I got up, which was the same time I did this a week ago, I got out of bed, went to the bathroom, had to poop REALLY bad but figured if I let that out I'd be "cheating" so I hopped on the bathroom scale all excited about my week of "doing good" and it said 247, and I was like 247, what the ****! So I clenched 'em tight and walked to the living room, turned on the Wii, weighed in, and it also said 247. I was like, gained 12, weird, how is that even possible? And then I came to make this post.

My sister did that when she got her first desk job and gained 100 pounds in a year. It's been 30 years and she never lost it. So good for you for starting.

You're eating too little. And I wouldn't worry about the little weight fluctuation. And it is little.

Put your stats into MFP. Say you want to lose that 50 pounds at one pound a week. Set your activity for sedentary. Log any extra calories. Eat the calories MFP gives you.

Don't forget to measure, weigh, or estimate everything accurately. I mean everything. Mayonaise. Salad dressing. Everything.

It will come off. You haven't blown it.

Yeah, normally I cook everything myself, but I've been eating a lot of prepackaged "healthy foods" like granola bars and whatnot because they're easy to report and log, because they product is already in the database.

Some of the stuff I'm not sure if I'm reporting it correctly, like I've made bruscetta a couple times in the past week, and I've been just adding the thing in the database, but I'm not sure if that's doing it correctly, like some people consider bruscetta to be the tomato topping that ends up on the bread, some people consider it the bread and tomato combination, how do I know if the bruscetta item I'm adding from the database has the bread it's sitting on included in it or not and whether I should also be logging the piece of bread, etc.