trying not to get discouraged

stay strong, you are doing great, motivation is something you'll get when you see results, ehy not get your own scale and perhaps taking your measurements to see the change...

Filling in the food and eating well with your calories is a beautiful thing, and it works
I see all the hard work you are doing and it will pay off

I've started this journey on jan15th this year and have lost 35lbs and looking to lose a good 30 more. so it's working out for me and should be working for you...

I can help you and support you, email me if you'd like, I'd appreciate it...

keep that beautiful chin up :flowerforyou:

:flowerforyou: Make sure you get plenty of rest every night. Also be sure you are drinking enough water, especially when exercising. Stress will stop you from losing weight as well. Try not to psych yourself out too much. Personally, I weigh in on a Saturday morning because I always have better weigh-ins on Saturdays. That is the day I don't have to wake up to an alarm clock and am sure to get a good 8 or 9 hours of sleep.

Good luck, hon. Don't ever give up, it's a marathon--not a sprint. Hang in there!!! :bigsmile:

Also, throw a cheat meal in there every 7 to 10 days. You have to keep your body confused and not used to its new calorie level. Cheat meal, not cheat day. Stay strong!

it is probably a good idea to overvalue your calories consumed and undervalue your exercise calories lost.

for instance, if you walked for an hour outside and you inputted that you walked at 3.0 miles per hour for an hour and it says you lost something like 300 calories, there is a good chance you didn't actually expend 300 calories. if that is the case, and you are eating pretty close to your goal calories (let's say 1500 calories for ****s and giggles), but in reality you ate 1800 calories (because food is freaking deceptive like that), then in reality you are burning fewer than 300 calories and eating more than 1800 calories. you think you are hitting 1500 calories a day, but in reality you might be closer to 1800 net calories, or even 2000. that's going to slow down you weight loss.

i say this because for a while i was drinking what i thought was a cup of milk. i have these red plastic cups that i filled nearly to the top and thought that was 1 cup. i measured it the other day and it was 2 cups, not 1. that's 220 calories per cup rather than 110 calories.

i drink like 3 of those plastic cups of milk a day. that's 330 calories extra a day that i wasn't accounting for. that's just one food source. i surmised that all my other food sources were being under valued as well, so we might be talking something like 800 or 1000 calories per day i was consuming that i wasn't recording on my calorie counter.

so i started measuring everything else religiously. since then i've been able to shred fat off my body because i know for a fact i'm hitting my calorie goals.

You have to stick with it. I just read a book called "The Slight Edge" (highly recommend--very short too). It talks all about how your success in life is not from one huge event, it's from little things you do each day. If you don't eat veggies today of course it won't kill you today, nor in a week if you still don't. But eventually it catches up to you and the little choices you make throughout the day either lead you toward success or not. You're making the small changes and you're doing awesome!!! Good luck!

It's very easy to talk yourself into being disouraged! You have already seen a loss of weight in the first week, that is awesome....just think of your weight as something tangible you have lost..for example, picture a pound of butter...and then think of it as you imagine you actually SHED that off your body. (or 5lbs as a bag of sugar etc) It makes it seems so much more impressive than when you look simply at the number and get disouraged because it's small amounts at a time.

Keep up the steady progress and think of all the great changes you are making...mostly, lean on others here for support!!

I know the feeling very well. You've decided to get rid of the fat, and want it gone ASAP. But realistically we need to take things a bit slower, and just keep persisting and it'll all go eventually.
That said I've been pretty lucky with my weightloss, I've lost 10.7kg (24 pounds) in 9 weeks, but last week I only lost 100 grams. That's nothing really, but I'm just trying to keep working at it, and let it happen over time.

If you don't have a big loss, or aren't happy with with you do lose/gain just make sure that you don't take it out on your body and start over-eating. I've also done that, but again in the long run you just have to move on and know that next week will be better....

try tracking your sodium and sugar too...they can be killers. you are doing great

that's strange. can you write down what you eat every day as an example and tell us what kind of exercise you are getting?

Awww, I'm checking your food day by day... you're eating chips every day! what do you think chips do for you?? It's awesome you are exercising so much, but don't throw all that to the wind! Trash those chips and junk, woman!

I wouldn't jump into not eating exercise calories. I've eaten almost every single one I've earned and I've lost 46 pounds that way. I would suggest going through your settings and making sure you set up your account appropriately (sedentary, lightly active, etc). If that's not the problem, like a previous poster said, try cutting out any of the "junk" food. I shouldn't talk though, because I eat chocolate almost on a daily basis! But little changes like that might help jump start things for you. Don't give up though; just keep tweaking and find the combination of factors that works for you. Good luck!