Frustrated on NO Weight or Inches Lost

I am, by no means, a nutrition expert, but I checked out the food diary, and there are a lot of entries where fast food was logged, or days were incomplete. But also, I'm curious how the OP's calorie requirements are less than someone like me, who is 5 inches shorter and weighs less. I don't say that to be mean, at all! I promise! But I'm eating more calories than the OP and losing weight and inches.

Knowing that weight loss isn't a one size fits all, it could be that you might need to eat more foods, but cleaner foods, to get the results you're seeking. I know how hard it is to eat healthy when life is so busy, but maybe if you plan to bring your lunches with you to work, rather than grab a quick bite from a fast food joint, that might help the inches and pounds shrink away. Also, try to log every single thing you put in your mouth. I can say that from a personal standpoint, my weight loss was stalled when I wasn't logging everything. I may have perceived that I was in my calorie range, but if I'm gonna be honest with myself, I really had no idea. Once I started logging everything I put in my mouth, the weight started coming off...slowly...but it's working.

My opinion is that you could try to do a little more meal planning in your busy week, and work on getting the majority of your calories from foods that aren't processed. It's definitely ok to have those things once in a while, but maybe work on getting more of your diet from wholesome foods, and veer away from the processed stuff.

The best advice I can give you is no junk food, no fast food! Ditch McDonald's, don't drink sugary sodas, koolaid, "sports" drinks that are just sugar water, etc. That stuff is packed with sodium, terrible for your body, and actually addictive. Cook at home, prepare healthy whole foods like fresh meats, vegetables, and small portion of potato or rice. Measure/weigh everything and don't forget sauces and dressings and oils count. Everything counts. In my case to have success I had to do a total reset on what counted as food to me. Fast foods, chips, and soda do not count as food to me any more. That's in the "junk" category now. It may sound a little draconian, but weight loss is hard and requires sacrifices.

When you said all the "homemades" in your diary were yours that is really what I was asking in my post, did you personally actually make all these or did you just grab what someone else did. Like someone mentioned above definitely use the recipe calculator, it's a great tool and you can enter exactly what you put into the recipe.

The % you take off depends on what you want to do. I use 15%, it's a slower loss but I thought it was a more healthy steady rate.