I AM NOT LOSING WEIGHT UGHHHHH

I HAVE BEEN WORKING OUT AND EATING PRETTY GOOD FOR THE LAST WEEK AND NOT A SINGLE POUND DROPPED ! WTF
MUSCLE MASS SHMUSSLE MAASS I AM SOOOOO FRUSTRATED

OPEN YOUR FOOD DIARY- NO ONE CAN TELL WHAT IF ANYTHING IS HOLDING YOU BACK UNLESS WE CAN SEE WHAT YOU ARE EATING/BURNING.

Also- 1 week won't have you lose much of anything. 1, maybe 2lbs tops. Chillax. You got a long way to go- and it will be longer if you mega freak every time you go 1 week without a loss.

^^What she said.

really did we act like that every week we over ate, didnt exercise and didn't gain weight!!!!!!!! give yourself and your body a break. go slow or it will go back on twice as fast

Try treating this as a learning experience. Whatever you're doing isn't working, so it's time to look at it harder, and decide what you can try next. I was doing great until I started upping the ante, then I just hit a sudden plateau. When I started digging into the numbers a bit, I realized that my exercise reporting may have been doing me in. A lot of people out here have noted that some of the exercises seem to over-report calories burned by significant amounts. So, I dug into some other calorie-burn calculation methods and found that, in particular, my time spent on the elliptical was showing far more calories burned than could possibly be. As I had more than tripled my elliptical time in that time, Considering that it seems to be over-reporting calories burned by more than half, I'm going to probably add a new elliptical exercise calculation, specifically for that. My walk calories are in close agreement to what other calculators say, so I'll report those as usual, and I'll calculate other exercises as I'm about to add them.

I have found that staying focused on what I'm learning, rather than what the scale says, is more satisfying, and gives me goals I can always achieve - even if it's "well, I learned today that tiramisu was a REALLY bad choice for dessert!"

Some times it takes a bit for your body to adjust. I wasn't losing at first even though I was very consistent in meeting my calorie goal each day. Then when I mentined that to my doc, she reminded me to also pay attention to the balance of sodium, potassium and my fats, protien and carbs. When I started eating to reduce those high sodium numbers weight started going down. Also try weighing only once a week. If you weigh everyday it will drive you nuts. Keep at it, you'll get the right groove going. Lots of luck and stay focused!!

You guys need to understand that many people, especially just starting, are prone to a bit of overkill. You start working out like a fiend, often eating like a bird and putting in all this effort and expecting the scale to immediately confirm you are heading in the right direction.

That's really just not quite how it works. You need patience and you need to slow down. Here are some of the reasons jumping right in won't work:

1) If you drop your calories and add in workout, your body will be mega confused. Sometimes it will drop a bunch of weight really quickly, sometime it will be like "What, you're starving and working super overtime and you want me to LET GO of my safety fat stores? WTF?" Moderation will help you take off weight consistently, if slowly, and will give your body time to adjust itself accordingly (shrinking skin and other organs and such).

2) Working out hard makes you retain water. You aren't gaining hoardes of muscle right away, you are actually creating tiny tears in the muscle that your body needs to repair, which it needs water to do.

3) Seeing your diary would help because we could see how much you're eating- people often try to eat very little or try to appear as though they are trying to eat very little- so this means they are either eating enough which see above re:body freak out, or are eating too much but not recording accurately and likely overeating. We could also see if you are eating a lot of processed foods which even if you stay in your calorie goals will cause your weight to fluctuate very much because they have high sodium and take a long time for your body to process and expel (sorry if thats gross, but it is what it is).

Some times it takes a bit for your body to adjust. I wasn't losing at first even though I was very consistent in meeting my calorie goal each day. Then when I mentined that to my doc, she reminded me to also pay attention to the balance of sodium, potassium and my fats, protien and carbs. When I started eating to reduce those high sodium numbers weight started going down. Also try weighing only once a week. If you weigh everyday it will drive you nuts. Keep at it, you'll get the right groove going. Lots of luck and stay focused!!

I have been weighing myself everyday and I don't think it is such a good idea. I am going to take your suggestion and only weigh myself once a week. I will let you know how it goes! Thanks!!