Please Help!

Dont worry--you are going to hit a plateau or you going to gain because it is fat turning into muscles. So when you see a gain, dont worry about the scale--just look at the way your clothes fit. I did this for a week and I am starting over to help a buddy lose weight as well. When I started I lost 7 pounds in one week but then it stopped. I got discouraged but looking at how my clothes fit different helped. Good luck :happy:

is it a week before or during your time of the month? Sometimes that can make the scale go up..i know it has for me today.
Otherwise, i was looking at your diary and i noticed your sodium daily is pretty high, i'd watch the processed food, even though the calories may be low, ultimately sodium is the devil when it comes to weight loss.

Thats just my 2 cents,
Hope others can help figure it out too

I agree measurements help. I weighed the same last week as the week before. This week I was up .5 pound. But The belt that fit two weeks ago needed TWO new holes put in it. The scale can be your best friend or worst enemy, but the waistline never lies.

You are starving yourself. You need a daily NET (calories in, minus calories burned) to be AT LEAST 1200 calories/day. You put your body into starvation mode and you are holding onto everything.

Are you switching up your workouts? Make sure that when you are doing cardio it is difficult to talk. Also, try incorporating more clean foods into your diet. Veggies, lean meats, try to stay away from stuff that comes from a box. I know this can be tricky though. Good luck!

You NEED to eat all or most of your exercise calories! You are functioning on way too few calories! You need to eat a minimum of 1200 but also your exercise calories too. MFP gives you 1200 cals a day. If you burn 400 calories, your body is only getting 800 calories. You are starving your body. 1200 is ALREADY a deficit to lose weight. By not eating all of those plus not eating your exercise calories, you are doing damage to your body. I know it sounds wrong, but trust me, it works! Good luck!

My suggestion to you would be try to stay away from processed foods, which now seems to be a lot of what you are eating. That would insure that you are eating all you need closer to its natural state. Processed foods have a lot of sodium, which contributes to water retention, but also conservatives and other unnatural chemicals that your body cannot process and that also affects how your metabolism works.

Most fast food chains now have great salads to choose from. Make sure to get the dressing on the side, and add the minimum you can. Also, it may help if you try to see if there are any foods that your body doesn't process well - I've noticed that too much dairy doesn't work for me and that my body processes better sheep/goat instead of cow milk products.

Good luck!

I don't think you are eating enough either!


http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/61706-guide-to-calorie-deficits


"Generally someone with a BMI over 32 can do a 1000 calorie a day (2 lbs a week) deficit
With a BMI of 30 to 32 a deficit of 750 calories is generally correct (about 1.5 lbs a week)
With a BMI of 28 to 30 a deficit of 500 calories is about right (about 1 lb a week)
With a BMI of 26 to 28 a deficit of about 300 calories is perfect (about 1/2 lb a week)
and below 26... well this is where we get fuzzy. See now you're no longer talking about being overweight, so while it's still ok to have a small deficit, you really should shift your focus more towards muscle tone, and reducing fat. This means is EXTRA important to eat your exercise calories as your body needs to KNOW it's ok to burn fat stores, and the only way it will know is if you keep giving it the calories it needs to not enter the famine response (starvation mode) "