On day 6 need to lose 56lb. Need some help and support please

Remember, you didn't put on the weight over night so it does take time to take it off. Lean on your MFP friends, but remember to focus on the positive and make sure you take the time to motivate them as well. You got this

Hi Stacey. I had like 80lbs to lose and started last year. I'm at the halfway point. debubbie is right. The first thing I recommend is just start logging everything to see how much you are actually eating. When you set up your goals in MFP I recommend the lb per week option. If you select to lose 2lbs a week it gives you like 1200 calories and that makes things pretty rough when starting out.

If you chose the "sedentary" activity level in your setup make sure that you are eating back at least some of your exercise calories. Just take things slow. Otherwise it is too easy to sabotage yourself. Feel free to send me a friend request.

Make some friends here on MFP. It will help keep you motivated. You can add me if you like

The best advice I can give you, from my personal experience, is to log your foods ahead of time. Don't fret - that doesn't mean you have to log all your meals a week in advance. Just try logging all the meals you want to have in a day that morning or the night before. You don't have to follow that meal plan exactly, but it gives you an idea of how you're meeting your calorie goals. It also gives you an idea of whether you can squeeze in a bowl of ice cream, and/or it gives you the opportunity to swap out one of your healthier meals for a sweet treat or skip breakfast if you're planning on having dinner at a steak house.

Second-best advice I can give you is to never be too hard on yourself and accept right now that you're going to make mistakes! Everyone does. If you get a surprise visit from friends who live out of town and they want to have a steak house dinner with you, you may find when you get home and log your meals that you're 800 calories over for the day. Or, if you have such tendencies, you may find that you had a binge day and went a good 1500 over your calories. It's okay! And it will be okay either way, but you can choose if you want to let that day go or try to make up for it throughout the week. If you choose the latter, I don't recommend you try to make up for it all in one day. However many calories you went over (say 1500), divide that number by 6 (which is 250), and just come that many calories short every day for the next week (so if your normal goal is 1600 a day, you might instead aim for 1350 each day for the next six days).

I always pick out what I'm going to eat (and log it) before going to a restaurant. Loads of places have their menus and nutritional info online.

Try to get as much exercise as you can, even taking the stairs a few extra times or doing laps around the office. When you've been truly sedentary (especially with an injury) you will want to start slow.

My advice is to stay focused. Whatever you have to do - remind yourself often that you are committed to this, why you are committed to this and how you are willing to do what it takes. For me, staying focused and not letting myself get distracted by food that is off-plan and then justifying why I "need" it just now is the hard part. What's helped me so far is tracking my food, walking (or doing whatever you enjoy for exercise), drinking more water, making sure I sleep enough and not eating anything I haven't made myself. In other words, I don't eat out, don't drink soda, avoid most sweets, and don't eat ready-made food. But my circumstances are different than most folks, so that may or may not work for you. But it's been working for me. Also I don't eat after dinner (even if I get hungry) and most importantly I take this journey one week at a time. My goal is to lose one pound a week, not 25 lbs. in 6 months. I work from Sunday to Sunday to lose one pound. That's all. If I lose more than one pound - Yay! But all I want is to lose one pound by Sunday. I've only been at it for 3 weeks now, so I'm still early in the game but so far since Feb. 1 I've lost 5 lbs. I'm 59 years old and weight doesn't just fly off me anymore so I see it as one pound at a time.

Good luck with your journey. Stay focused and remember why you want it.

Stacey, my goal is 2.2 lbs per week. I am on a 1700 calorie goal and have no problem reaching that and not getting to hungry, I have only been at this steady since the beginning of the year make time to exercise even if nothing more than walking the dog. I have lost just about 30lbs and have another 65 to go. Think positive, and give yourself a treat now and then just remember tomorrow get right back on the wagon.

I'm hitching a ride with this thread as I'm on the same page. Great inputs everyone.