Disappointed and disheartened!

Can you open your diary?

You're not weighing your food. All of your entries are the same everyday for things like bananas 100g. The average banana I eat is about 125-130 calories. Most apples are 5+ ounces, 70-100 calories, you're claiming 49. You have a lot of quick adds.
Unfortunately, you're eating more than you think. Tighten your logging and you'll lose.

Two weeks of no change? Two weeks is water weight, hormones, period cycle, eating sodium heavy a couple day, working out, poop hanging around a little too long or not long enough, etc.

My weekly progress has looked like this:

Week 1: 0
Week 2: 0
Week 3: 0
Week 4.5: -4
Week 5: 0
Week 6: 0
Week 7: -2

And so forth.

It's easy to get discouraged but it sounds like you are still making awesome progress like making food changes and exercising. Keep going, the changes will catch up

And I can't count 5 a day either! I don't mean to be harsh, but if you want this to be a change for health and longevity as well as weight loss you need to start putting better fuel in! I really recommend something like the Slimming World magazine for ideas, doesn't have to be elaborate or fancy cooking - it does need to be more nutritionally dense though. Good luck!

Hello Miss Disheartened...
I am too starting out, been at it for 4 weeks now and I am showing very slow progress, I have gone from 18 stone to 17 stone 12 so only 2 lbs so far, I have been eating much better (could still improve a lot though, but trying) trying to cut out the soda and sugary drink, adding veg and fruit etc, as I say can still do better (cut out the biscuits and sweets) but I am maintaining my daily goals every day bar 4 and 2 of them were only 30 over, my daily goal is 1890 but I have averaged around 1700 a day so far and I am set to 2lbs a week, so should be 8 lbs down now according to MFP. I have also added exercise, again not enough, but its a start, slow and steady I say)
All I can say is that I do feel better though, more energy, less bloated, enjoying my food more, I hope it will start to come off soon but at least I have started to change, as long as I keep that going then I will be happy no matter how much I lose, but ideally I want to lose 2 stone.
Keep at it, log everything, I used to not log butter on bread / jam / sauces, but its amazing how much they add up to, also I know its a pain but I have started to weigh my portions out too, that has helped me to understand portion control, which for me was hard, so I now think I will eat a small / medium meal, and have something later if I need it, instead of one big meal a day as I have for years....
Hope you don't lose heart too much, keep at it, keep the faith it will come and just remember that your doing good by eating healthier anyway.

6 spoons ( 6g) of sugar is about 132 calories So it is not nothing.
100 gram banana 89 calories
125 gram banana 111 calories and the difference is just 25 grams. You cant eyeball this. And to be fair i never had a banana yet that was 100 gram. Its always around the 125 gram or higher.

Plus all the other foods she doesn't weigh like the banana's etc will add up the calories quickly that she didn't account for.

My bet is she indeed eat more than she thinks.


Weigh All your solid food and measure your liquids.

fatjon73 wrote: »

fatjon73 wrote: »

My husband and parents are English, tea is the fabric of their lives, and they drink several cups a day just like this--one teaspoon of sugar and one or two tablespoons of milk. The effect of giving it up on their daily mood would not be worth the paltry calories it would save.

I too am English, I could rather stop drinking beer than tea !!! lol.
I too drink around 2 - 4 large (pint pots) of tea a day, I also work for a large coffee manufacturer so I can get cheap good quality coffee, so I drink 2 or 3 of them a day also, as well as 2 - 4 pints of water a day. I log them too as I realise I do drink a lot of the stuff, I have a large cup with 3 sweeteners and semi skimmed milk 25% of the drink, so I log them to ensure they are included....

yes there is nothing wrong with the fact you drink tea with sugar or eat that banana etc. The fact that you dont log accurate ( read weigh the solid food) is the point. It adds up over a day to hundreds of calories too much.

Looks like ur not working out hard enough.. If ur hitting ur calorie needs and doing everythin on ur diet then ur prolly lacking in cardio exercises... Do high intensity interval training

Abby2205 wrote: »

Ooci wrote: »

6 cups of sugary tea for breakfast every day? Is that really being kind to yourself?

Some of us are major tea drinkers and six cups a day (I figured OP is prelogging the whole day) is being kind to ourselves. Nothing wrong with that, it's hydration and at this quantity the milk adds a decent amount of calcium to your day. My husband and parents are English, tea is the fabric of their lives, and they drink several cups a day just like this--one teaspoon of sugar and one or two tablespoons of milk. The effect of giving it up on their daily mood would not be worth the paltry calories it would save.

Hey - I'm English too - I love my sugary tea as much as anyone! My issue is the OP is logging just 6 cups of tea with sugar for breakfast. Perhaps it is across the day so OK - might be an idea to replace the sugar with Canderel though. But a lack of breakfast when you're a midwife and have quite a hard active day is not good! It sets up major hunger and potentially awful choices for later on!

You mention exercise, but you do not say what you are doing or how much...

If you're not losing as fast as you think you should be, try reading this Logging accuracy, consistency, and you're probably eating more than you think.

I'm surprised only a few people here have mentioned this - weight loss is rarely linear or predictable even when you are doing the right things. You'll have to learn how your body handles it. For some people, it's every other week after working hard. For others, it's every third week and suddenly BAM! They get a big drop. The estimation of losing 2 pounds in a week doesn't literally mean that every 7 days you will drop 2 pounds. Keep working - track accurately and stick to the plan, and your body will catch up Good luck!

cheshirecatastrophe wrote: »

Two weeks of no change? Two weeks is water weight, hormones, period cycle, eating sodium heavy a couple day, working out, poop hanging around a little too long or not long enough, etc.

My weekly progress has looked like this:

Week 1: 0
Week 2: 0
Week 3: 0
Week 4.5: -4
Week 5: 0
Week 6: 0
Week 7: -2

And so forth.

Yep!