Why didn't I lose?

^100% CORRECT Give it more time. At least 3 weeks.

Unless you have an underlying medical issue, if you aren't losing weight, you aren't in a caloric deficit. This is especially true at the beginning when it's easiest to lose weight because it's mostly water.

When you say that you "have not posted meals everyday" does that mean you aren't logging your food? If so, how do you really know you've stayed under 1800 calories?

One week isn't long enough.

Have you just started FocusT25? Are you getting enough protein? When you start a new regime it'll take your body time to adjust. The weight you gained will probably be muscle that you have gained in order to deal with FocusT25. Don't worry as it will settle and then your weight will start dropping again in a few weeks.

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MFP tells you that you can have 2200 calories a day and you'll still lose a pound a week? How tall are you and what do you currently weigh? What did you select for your activity level? How much do you ultimately want to lose?

If you didn't lose, chances are that you are still taking in too many calories than you are expending... If you didn't track, how do you *know* that you were under? You need to be honest with yourself, because it's YOUR weight loss--you are not going to fool your own body.

I would suggest cutting your calorie intake (to what? Can't say without some idea of your current weight/age/height) and being more diligent about tracking every single day.

cwolfman13 wrote: »

If you're new to your exercise, you are going to retain fluids that can easily mask any fat loss you may have had. Not to mention, you have natural weight fluctuations that can mask scale losses...most people will fluctuate 3-5 Lbs from day to day. This is why a mere week or whatever is pretty much worthless in figuring out what's going on...this stuff takes time...you need time to accumulate data points for any kind of meaningful analysis.

Give it time and track the trends.

This. I used to weigh daily when I first started, and it was really brutal -- though I eventually began to recognize that while I fluctuated up and down a lot, it did trend downward. Now I only weigh-in every two weeks. It's long enough that I'm watching the trend rather than the day-to-day fluctuation, but not so long that things get away from me if I get a bit lax in my eating habits.

Are you weighing or measuring all of your food? To be reasonably accurate you need to do this and log everything you eat otherwise it's just guesswork and research has pretty clearly established that when self-reporting we have a tendency to underestimate our caloric intake (inaccurate portion sizes).

Like others have also suggested, give it a little more time too. Weight loss is not linear.

Amianne wrote: »

mitch16 wrote: »

MFP tells you that you can have 2200 calories a day and you'll still lose a pound a week? How tall are you and what do you currently weigh? What did you select for your activity level? How much do you ultimately want to lose?

If you didn't lose, chances are that you are still taking in too many calories than you are expending... If you didn't track, how do you *know* that you were under? You need to be honest with yourself, because it's YOUR weight loss--you are not going to fool your own body.

I would suggest cutting your calorie intake (to what? Can't say without some idea of your current weight/age/height) and being more diligent about tracking every single day.

I am 5'10" and weigh 280. When I didn't track I pretty much the same things as the other days. I do understand that I need to track everyday to keep it right. I am trying to better with that.

That's a good start. Are you also weighing your food? I can't see your diary to be sure, but it's hard to be accurate if you're using the entries like "medium banana" or using someone else's entry for a meal that may be made using different ingredients than your meal.

1. To get a true calculation of weight don't just weigh once a day. We can fluctuate by a pound or more on a daily basis. Weigh in every day and average your weight at the end of the week. It provides a much more accurate scale than a once a week deal. Also weigh yourself right after your morning pee and before you eat/drink anything. You're at your lightest then.

2. A single week is never an accurate measurement of weight gain or loss. Your body goes through various changes all the time. Women more so than men (partly due to women stuff, but you fluctuate more without "women stuff" as well), but we all do. It takes about 30 days to really gauge what direction you're headed.

3. Are you really tracking accurately? Are you measuring all your food? Bro, do you even food scale? Probably not and it probably shows in your tracking. Get 100% accurate.

4. Don't change anything yet and don't give up. Weight loss and/or muscle gain is a long process. Stick with it.

Amianne wrote: »

mitch16 wrote: »

MFP tells you that you can have 2200 calories a day and you'll still lose a pound a week? How tall are you and what do you currently weigh? What did you select for your activity level? How much do you ultimately want to lose?

If you didn't lose, chances are that you are still taking in too many calories than you are expending... If you didn't track, how do you *know* that you were under? You need to be honest with yourself, because it's YOUR weight loss--you are not going to fool your own body.

I would suggest cutting your calorie intake (to what? Can't say without some idea of your current weight/age/height) and being more diligent about tracking every single day.

I am 5'10" and weigh 280. When I didn't track I pretty much the same things as the other days. I do understand that I need to track everyday to keep it right. I am trying to better with that.

That's only about 12 lbs more than what I started at. I have my daily calorie goal set at 1600, which is supposed to let me lose at two lbs a week. I would recommend setting your goal lower.