Open Diary, need (kind) advice!

Hon, you will need to open your diary to the public. Are you eating alot of processed foods rather than a "cleaner more natural" diet?

Your logging is inaccurate. Days/meals are missing, macros don't add up, you aren't using a food scale. You're probably eating more than you think.

I only looked for two weeks and you have so many incomplete or "over" days.
Weigh and measure everything! Be consistent with logging. Good luck!

I didn't even bother looking at your diary, because 2 pounds in 3 weeks is good. I don't see any need for any changes !!! Keep doing what you're doing

I didn't even bother looking at your diary, because 2 pounds in 3 weeks is good. I don't see any need for any changes !!! Keep doing what you're doing

I believe it's .2 not 2lbs. But since a lot of days are not logged, I suspect the OP is eating a lot more than she thinks.

OP, do you use a food scale?

Since your profile is private, which is perfectly fine , no one can see what your stats are. Yes, I can now see your diary, but how old, how tall, what weight currently. I'm asking because you are consuming a rather low number of calories according to your diary.

That being said, I'm sure in reality you are probably eating more than you think if you aren't weighing your food. I'll give an example...I looked a few days back and there as an entry for avocado, one half Hass, 100 cals. Yeah, nope. Bet if you weighed that out and used the usda weight to cal entry you'd find it's more cals than 100. I mean, think of it this way. How could every single Hass avocado be the same size and have the exact same number of calories? It isn't possible, which is why so many people on the forums suggest weighing out food when people are stuck and can't figure out why.

And P.S. - no, it doesn't have anything at all to do with "clean eating". BS term is bs. It's about how many calories you consume versus how many your body needs and if you are truly creating a moderate deficit. Feel free to check my open diary and the ticker below

I didn't even bother looking at your diary, because 2 pounds in 3 weeks is good. I don't see any need for any changes !!! Keep doing what you're doing

Its says .2 lbs with how much she says she is eating, she should have lost more than .2 lbs in 3 weeks.

OP logging is all over the place. Missing days. Be consistent and log everything you eat every day. Weigh and measure everything that goes into your mouth. Keep up with it!

Looks like a lot of gaps in logging. The devil is in the details so you really want it all on the table when researching your diary. One thing I do see is that you could be adding a lot more veg and fruit to your meals. It helps you feel fuller and gives you the nutrients you need. I know you want to stay low carb but you will have some good options with a hearty salad.

Ah I see the allergic to fresh fruit. I've known someone like that too and that stinks. Try broth based soups in addition to your meals to help fill you up and LOG IT ALL! Just keep going, it's a journey. You're not "fat" the same way as you won't be "skinny" by the end of this. You will just be "you" so don't get hung up on the lbs lost so much because that is what makes us feel like a failure when we aren't losing the weight we want to see.

Is there a reason you're going low carb? Personally for me, I LOVE carbs so I could never give them up and I haven't had a problem losing.

If you are set on going low carb, you still need to monitor your calories. A lot of people think going low carb is enough but if you are not eating at a defict, you will not lose. Make sure you weigh all your solids with a food scale and measure liquids.

Your logging doen't look consistant either. You really can't tell if you should expect a loss if you are not consistantly logging EVERYTHING.

I decided to go low carb because I love carbs too much! And the more I eat, I feel bloated. I know one of my big problems is not logging everyday, well usually weekends!I will attempt to work on that!!

I wish I could eat more fruit, but I am deathly allergic to 90% of fresh fruit. Sad.

I get that. Just remember if you want to keep the weight off, you need to do something that you can do for the rest of your life. If you love carbs so much, what happens when you hit goal? Do you plan to never eat carbs again? If not, you may what to think about trying to retrain yourself how to eat now.

That's how most people regain the weight after a diet. Most people will go back to eating the way they did before but guess what, that's how they became overweight to begin with. I'm not trying to get you to change your method, just food for thought.

Just to echo everyone else, consistency is key, track, weigh your food. Try to cut out the more processed foods. Low carb is fine but carbs are not your enemy, I have polycystic ovarian syndrome and try to eat low carb as well, this means cutting out white things, bread, pasta, potatoes, refined sugars, not fruits (that you can eat safely with your allergies) and healthy vegetables.

You are eating lots of processed foods. I would also drop the fast foods and high fat snack foods. The avacado and the eggs look good. Try less cheese and more lean meat (unprocessed), like skinless chicken breast and fish (baked or broiled, not fried, not breaded). Add some nuts (raw, unsalted) and more veggies, looks like you could use more fiber. Try to stick to or under your fat, carb and protein goals not just calories. Hope this helps. Good luck!

If you're doing low carb, this is VERY wrong information. I won't even touch the processed foods comment....

I would agree with the above commenters. You have too much processed food, especially salty foods like cheese and chips, which will make you retain water weight. One day you had 2 beers, which also causes bloating and water retention. You mentioned you were allergic to fresh fruits, but are you also allergic to fresh vegetables. Avocado was the only vegetable that I saw. You could fill up on salads topped with lean protein, feel full, and still be under your calorie goal.

Right now, the best thing you can do is get in the habit of logging. Don't worry about changing anything else, just practice logging everything, correctly, every day. Since you have a lot of incomplete days, you're not really sure what/how much you've been eating, so changing things right now is kind of a cr@pshoot. Give yourself two week or so to just focus on logging, then look back through your diary and see if you can identify one thing to work on. The act of logging itself can help you make choices that better fit your macros, without making it feel like you're on some crazy restrictive diet.

Just a note, because I did peek through your diary: it's more accurate to log the individual components of your meals than the full item, so I would log 1 raw egg + the amount of butter or oil you used to cook it (rather than finding an entry for 1 fried egg). You have your goal set pretty low, so being as accurate as possible will help you maximize the amount of food that you actually get to eat.

This. And here's some good info about logging accurately:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1234699-logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide

Processed foods isn't the problem. There isn't a reason to avoid them. Weight loss comes from a deficit. Simple calories in vs calories out. You could lose weight just eating ice cream and tacos as long as you stayed within your deficit.