Gotta lose 50, so far no movement! Advice?

You said you're watching your calorie intake, but how closely? Do you know your exact numbers? Have you done the math to figure how many calories you need, based on a very honest assessment of your activity level?

Colleen, your diary's closed. If you've been watching your calorie intake in a meaningful way, there should be six months of entries we can look over if you open it. If it's spotty--missing entries, incomplete entries--then accurate logging is where to begin. Most underestimate what they eat, and while you can easily lose weight without exercise, it's difficult to out-exercise a poor diet.

With 15 weeks until July 4th, a 16-24lb loss is quite possible! Get comfortable with weight loss being an endurance event and not a sprint. You can do this if you set your mind to it!

If you accurately count calories and eat at a deficit, you will lose weight, period.

You probably are eating more than you realize.

I would have to agree, without a good look at your diary I won't be able to help to much. You should be working in a deficit and not eating back the calories that you burn with exercise. It is ok to add your exercise in if you want (I usually don't just because it confuses me) but you just need to ignore the extra calories it gives you to eat. Proper food measurement and honesty is going to really help you loose the weight. Also having the proper macro % entered in your MFP goals will really help you (the ones MFP defaults are more for muscle/weight gain) I sent you a friend request and will be more than happy to help you further if you would like! Hope you have a great day and I hope to hear from you soon!

I monitored my calories and lost nothing for 6 weeks - exercising 3 times a week for 30 min. I saw a nutritionist who recommended I give up diet pop - I normally had a can or two at lunch and the same in the evening, so 4 to 5 a day. They're zero calorie so I figured it was fine. I gave up the diet pop and lost 4 lbs the first week! I learned that diet pop can mess with leptin - do a search on artificial sweeteners and leptin.

You may not use artificial sweetener but my point is sometimes they're bad things lurking in our diets that sabotage us. Keep a good diary and have someone take a look you may be under counting or missing something. Good Luck

I suspect you'll get a lot of comments that essentially add up to my advice, but here goes...

1. Log what you eat. EVERYTHING. Weigh it. Count it. This has multipurposes. First, it makes you AWARE of where you stand. Second, it helps you make informed decisions as well as understand how your body is acting and reacting. The only person you lie to is yourself, so, being as honest as possible only HELPS you. If you overeat, so be it. Write it down. Learn from it, and go on.

2. Move. This doesn't mean do crazy 10 mile runs every day. But, be AS active as possible, AND.... Be CONSISTENT. If you have a daily step goal, then make THAT a prioritization, not a re-run of "Housewives of XXX". If you cannot make it to the gym on a day, then MOVE. Walk about the house. Walk back and forth to the mailbox 5 times. Park WAY far away at the grocery store, so that you have to do that distance twice. Turn on some music and DANCE for 5 minutes. The MORE you move, the more you burn.

3. Start with reasonable and achievable goals. But after you beat those, increase and challenge yourself.

4. As has been said before, and will be after... Burn more calories than you take in. If you do this consistently, for long enough the weight WILL come off. Wake up every day with THAT as a main goal. "How am I going to succeed in this, today?". If one day you aren't as good as you want or expect, get over it. Tomorrow is a new day.