When did you start seeing the weight come off?

When you burn everything you eat. Maintaining your weight means not eating past 5pm and eating less than 1,000 cal. Sorry but its the only way! Truth is the less you eat the less you weigh. Its hard but trying to eat less will help.

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MFP has strict guidelines in relation to promoting unsafe eating practices - it does not recommend eating below the minimum of 1200cal per day, for women. The rules of not eating after 5pm, and eating less than 1000cal a day IS NOT the only way. Eating less than you burn is true......but the rest of what you have said is really promoting disordered styles of pedantic eating and encouraging starvation.

You are replying to a young girl here looking for answers that are going to help her not engender fear and push her into starving herself and following your rules that have NO scientific basis. I am very sorry that you are experiencing this in YOUR world. Perhaps it is the result of your body fighting back from such low calories and your metabolism has slowed. Please get help!!!!!

Dear OP: Don't lose heart.....you are starting out as you....some lose quickly at the beginning others not so much. Sticking at what you are doing, trying to increase your protein (to fuel your workouts) and investing in your HRM and a food scale are all great ideas.

I honestly didn't think I'd lose as much weight as I have. I dieted and exercised before, but didn't really get the results I was hoping for. But I've lost 26lbs and I'm almost at my goal. I noticed that my weight started to really go down when I was 1-2 months into it. If I start to feel as if I'm not losing 1-2lbs a week like I have the past few months, I make my workouts more intense. The more I challenge myself and my exercise, the more the weight dips.

When I went low-carb, high quality.....I know there are lots of bashers on here, but try it and check it out for yourself. Everything doesn't work for everyone, but something should work and that can take an open mind and lots of experimentation.

I also exercise a lot [always have].

Good luck.

The food scale will help a lot. The HRM too! I noticed that my weight loss was more constant when I bought those two.

As for my personal weight loss, it was quite fast. I think my metabolism is fast to begin with so that's probably why I lost 5 pounds per month instead of 2 (i was set at .5 per week)

I started at 188, and mine was VERY slow. I started in Jan, and lost 10 lbs the first month. Then gained it back in a week. It took 2 more months to lose it again, and keep loosing. I gave up the fast food, fried foods, mayo, sausages, all the fatty stuff that I love, and replaced it with real food. Then once I started exercising (didn't do any in Jan) it came off faster after I hit the six-month mark. It sounds like such a cliche, but veggies and water and exercise! But find exercise you like, it makes it so much easier.