Help Im getting discouraged

Don't give up! :happy: Some bodies don't take well to a change, especially a drastic change like adding new diet and routine in the same week! You WILL benefit from your hard work! Please give yourself more time, and if needed, hide that scale! Don't let the LBS tell you that you aren't winning.

Make sure to choose healthy calories to fill your day
drink PLENTY of water!
get 8 hours of sleep each day (this is often overlooked and SO important!)

You are doing AWESOME and I think you should keep it up!! :flowerforyou:

Give it some more time. Make sure you get plenty of water and watch your sodium - you should shed some water weight easily.

did you measure yourself? Have seen quite a few posts on here where someone thought they werern't losing till they measured,

Totally there too! It's amazing how fast we can put the weight on, and yet it seems to take 3 times as long (or more!) to lose it. We just have to stick with it and judge by how our clothes are fitting us and not just by the scale. Here for ya!

Hang in there! It's only been a week and you didn't gain weight overnight so don't plan to lose it that way. It might be a bit before you SEE changes so focus on how you FEEL. How great do you feel after a workout? After you eat a balanced meal instead of drive-thru?? That should be worth it.

The EXACT same thing happened to me, but at week 2, I had lost 4 pounds and 2 more at week 3. Hang in there!:happy:

"I have been working out, eating right and running like crazy for about 1 week straight "

Do you have an exercise plan? Its as much your mind as it is your body and if you can't see where you are going, you won't know when to turn.

Strength training + some cardio = sucess, but you have to have a baseline and work up from there. When I started with weights (NROL/Women), I think I could deadlift 10 pounds. OK maybe it was more, but you get the idea. Same thing with bench presses and pushups....I felt like a 6 year old who didn't have ANY muscles! but at least I had a starting point.
And yes, I had to reorganize my thinking that I COULD eat more and <gasp> have fats and eat late at night...in order to prepare my body for the next days training.
It's amazing. I started at size 18 and I am an 8. I love the definition I have...while my muscels are at rest! I think I've lost 6 inches in my bust, but instead of saggy boobs, my chest muscles support them and they look better than ever! I used to run 5-6 miles every other day but now I do 13 minutes intervals and plyo a couple times a week on non-training days and thats the only cardio I do...yet I went out and did 6 miles just the other day cause I had the time. It was a breeze. I hadn't lost any endurance and my legs felt like they could go forever.
I deadlift 135 now...my goal weight! Its been 7 weeks, almost time to start a new strength cycle and I am looking forward to whatever that cycle brings me!

The point is, take some time to plot out a roadmap for whatever your goals are and keep on it. Sometimes your results will be actual pounds and sometimes it will be inches....if you are always going longer, faster, harder and heavier, even if it is incremental, you WILL be making progress and that WILL be noticable.

Toss the scale idea for the moment. Concentrate on: you feel better, you are doing great, you are doing fantastic, you are consistent, DO NOT stop doing what you have started because some silly number at your feet. Defeat the scales. You sometimes gain muscle and are loosing fat. Muscle weighs more than fat. Muscle is compact takes up less space! It is harder heavier, a pound of fat (a blob), a pound of muscle,(square cube). Just an example, think these things: eat right, exercise, healthy, happy, progress, changing HOW you live your life is better. You will be happier and when you are happier with you, others will add immeasurably to your happiness, and likewise. It is just a better you. Don't forget you are changing and it takes time. Sometimes it takes awhile for the change to really kick it up in, clothes, scales(forbid) don't use them too much to WEIGH your success. Let your attitude of "I'm healthy, I'm fit, I feel good, I love me, I love my family, they love me. Enjoy life, be patient for the change to physically show. Think of yourself, imagining in your mind, how you want to look, OK, got that picture in your mind. Now, look how you walk, look in the mirror, oh you like what you see!, like the way you hold your head up, posture is better. Now, you keep all those and more. Start carrying your self like you are already there. It will come to pass all that you can imagine, when you keep all the positive in front of you and not a set of numbers. Who knows in another week or maybe the next you body will kick into high gear and the metabolism will be off the chart. Not all of this is physical. Mind set is really the most important and then following through, being consistent and committed to what you have set your mind on. There is a formula for eating also, you have to eat enough and enough of the right combinations, at the right times. The before and after work outs , combining protein carbs, getting the right amount of the healthy required fats. If you do not do this your body will actually feed off of itself. Meaning it will eat your muscle off before the fat. Drinking water also. NOT worrying this is a NO NO when trying to loose fat. Sleep is a must. Especially you are working out hard, IT IS MUST. I am not a speller, not a grammar person, not an expert at this stuff. I have just experienced a lot of this. Learned a lot on videos on the Internet, this one guy is really good, I have joined this to get in shape. I think I wrote this more to me than to you I hope it helps you. PLEASE, just keep doing your workouts, eat right, think right, sleep right, it will be right. ++++++++++++++remember ++++++ positive. :flowerforyou: Do not speak negative of any of this.:flowerforyou: Always always say positive. You did the right thing , if you need encouragement yell HELP, in need encouragement. Change even how you say it. : Look at this see if you think it makes a difference, ( things have been taught to us negatively, to even without knowing say it negative). Tell me if you see a difference" Help I'm getting discouraged." Help, I need encouragement." I am working on this. Someone pointed it out to me. Like I have to go to the store. You don't have to. Instead, "I am going to the store, to get milk, a few groceries, or whatever, to pick up the things on my list." This is probably way more than you wanted to hear. Just sharing my thoughts. I am a jabber box. Hang in there Baby, you are doing great!!!!!! A little embrassed:blushing: to post of this but I will, in hopes it will cheer you up and encourage you to keep positive. Being positive is the very most important part of being consistent and committed. I needed this thank you:happy: