No progress, feeling discouraged.

You're not doing anything wrong. Trust the process, just keep doing what you are doing and you will drop weight. Let us know in another month how you are doing. Just take one day at a time...

What has helped me throughout losing and maintaining was patience and persistence......endless patience and persistence.

You are only 2 weeks into this and realistically you did not gain the 40lbs you wish to lose at a rapid rate at sadly, thus it is in reverse.

You sound as though you have made some major life style changes, along with adjusting your eating patterns....maybe you are feeling a little bit overwhelming with the apparent lack of "nothing" from your body, despite this transformation, so perhaps ease back a little. Perhaps revisit the MFP settings and check that the 1300 cal alloment you have, hasn't come about because you have put in a too aggressive lose per week goal, maybe you wouldn't feel so discouraged if your calories were higher.

Keep logging and weighing your foods, don't be too strict with yourself and go down the route of depriving yourself of your favourite foods because they now rank as "junk/bad" whatever.....deprivation will not help you last the distance nor is it a sustainable healthy way to live.

I agree with the other poster about protein and watching sodium intake and keeping well hydrated. I do suggest that you familiarize yourself with this forum, read as much as you can and get inspiration from success stories etc etc. Perhaps branch out and get to know like minded people such as yourself with similar goals with which to share the journey.

Good luck

Dont worry just keep your head up. You will see results! You just gotta keep up the good work. Summer bodies are made in the winter. Dont stop now.

chgodvr wrote: »

If you are logging accurately and eating at a deficit - you will lose weight. Depending on your current weight, you could see your metabolism slow as it adjusts to a lower calorie intake (i.e. your body thinks you are starving, so it goes into survival mode). It took me a few weeks as well. After a few weeks, I started to see some bigger losses. After I hit about 11 pounds, it took about another 3 weeks to lose again. I have recently broke through another plateau and dropped about 4 pounds in the last two weeks after not losing for 2 weeks. Patience and Persistence - don't give up. Log accurately, limit sodium & processed foods/carbs and drink water. Also, remember to get adequate protein since you will lose muscle as you lose weight -which will lower your BMR -so, added protein will help with muscle retention (but, doing some strength training will help as well).

Good Luck!!

Well, I agree with the first and last sentence of this. Also, make sure you are weighing all of your food. Everything...even prepackaged foods. Accurate logging is key. If you don't log accurately and are off on serving size by several grams here and there those calories add up quickly. Most of the time when people aren't losing, it's because they're not accurately logging and eating more than they think. Also, hit your macros. Don't skimp on things like fat or protein. These help with satiety among other things.

I would start by reading some of the stickied posts in the forums, starting with this one:

Logging accuracy, consistency, and you're probably eating more than you think.

My personal motto on this journey: If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up!

Good luck!

Hang in there girl! My wife got me on fitness pal three months and be leave me I didn't go down easy. Like you the first two weeks nothing! My wife kept telling me to hang in there. Out blue I stated losing a pound or better a week! I just completed my first goal simply break 200. Weighed this morning 199.00 on the money that's 26lbs in three months. That would not sound like a big deal but my weakness is cooking and eating what I cook! I was my on worst enemy!
So I say agin in there it will happen!

chgodvr wrote: »

If you are logging accurately and eating at a deficit - you will lose weight. Depending on your current weight, you could see your metabolism slow as it adjusts to a lower calorie intake (i.e. your body thinks you are starving, so it goes into survival mode). It took me a few weeks as well. After a few weeks, I started to see some bigger losses. After I hit about 11 pounds, it took about another 3 weeks to lose again. I have recently broke through another plateau and dropped about 4 pounds in the last two weeks after not losing for 2 weeks. Patience and Persistence - don't give up. Log accurately, limit sodium & processed foods/carbs and drink water. Also, remember to get adequate protein since you will lose muscle as you lose weight -which will lower your BMR -so, added protein will help with muscle retention (but, doing some strength training will help as well).

Good Luck!!

survival mode is a load of *kitten*.

I found that tweaking my calories according to my workouts has helped. There was a week where I could not work out and kept to my calorie goals and was losing weight. The following week I started back on my workouts, kept the same calorie goals and didn't see any progress. I found that I had to up my calories when I was working out. I also found this website useful as far as calculating how much calories you need to maintain your current weight and how much you need to lose (according to your weight loss goals and level of activity.) http://www.healthyweightforum.org/eng/calculators/calories-required/ So calorie to maintain current weight was like 2300 and to lose about a 1.5 to 2lbs a week, with exercise, was like 1600. The week that I was not working out I was only consuming about 1300.
Keep at it and you'll get there. We, including myself, are always looking for quick results. Doesn't happen. Be patient.