Starting not to care

You can bust your *kitten* for weeks and not see results on the scale, but the key is consistency...STICK WITH IT, it will happen. It sounds like you may be doing too much and restricting your calories to the point that you're mentally fatiguing yourself. Only consuming 1100 and running 10 miles would kill me, I can't imagine keeping that up. Bump up you calories a bit and work in the foods that you love, there's no need to cut out entire food groups. If it fits into your calories, eat it You'll be much happier and more apt to stick to a healthier lifestyle.

Kayaking! I'm so jealous!

What @shamcd said. Well put. Agree that you're just pushing yourself too hard, too fast, and not giving yourself enough energy in the way of food to keep this up. And you're viewing your decisions re: food as "giving X up, giving Y up..." instead of looking at this as "eating A for my health, eating B for nutrition" or seeing that you CAN have A, B, AND X and Y, using your brain and intuition to guide you into the balance of foodstuffs that you need and like and can stick with.

This won't last, too, if you depend on "motivation" and "will power" to pull you through in the long term. Motivation and will power fade away, or come and go in fits and spurts. Instead, losing weight is a decision you make as a lifestyle choice. You don't have to motivate yourself to brush your teeth every day; you just do it, right? Decide what you want, and just do it. Be consistent; get off track on a day? Get back on track the next day, don't just hang it up if you mess up one meal or one day.

I would add it might be easier to do that if you made some specific goals. Do you want to lose a certain percentage of body fat? Do you want to maintain as much muscle mass as you lose? How much? That helps you figure out a plan of action. Don't forget: cardio helps you burn calories for weight loss. Resistance exercises like weight lifting helps you maintain your lean muscle mass while you're losing. A combination of both is one of the more ideal scenarios to overall health and longevity.

Good luck.

I used to run 3 times a week for like 30-60 and eat immediately after something easily digestible to recover muscle damage.
I ate 1300 calories and it melted off me. Less running and bump up cal just a lil and that might give you metabolism some more juice to burn fat.
Last year I ran 1 hour 2 times a week and ate nearly 3000 calories and was a size 4 and 130-132 pounds.
I don't know what your stats are but to eat pizza, drink beer, eat and snack what i wanted to and rock a bikini out! Thats awesome to be able to eat and look wonderful.
I don't run so I'm up to 145 (lost inches though) and still under my high school weight but anyways I'm working on my core these days through pilates and elliptically for resistance because muscles are important. If I can look good and eat and feel strong like i can kick somethings **** then that would mean success to me ^_^ I just try to watch my calories now since i can't run them off.

You are NOT "dieting correctly this time" either - you are setting yourself up for failure and doing a lot of damage to your system at a very young age...Go and read all the sticky's on top of the Weight loss and diet forum, and use it.....

When I started this journey 5 weeks ago, I hit it the same way as you, and wanted everything to fall off the first week! LOL, I felt the same way. "If I can sit on my *kitten* and do nothing and maintain my weight, or eat less and exercise three times a week, and maintain my weight, why the hell would I want to exercise and eat right??!!"
But my husband kept reminding me it wasn't a race, it was a lifestyle change. I was in it to improve my heart health, my overall health, and WHEN the weight came off, all the better. I resolved not to get on the scale for the first two weeks so I wasn't watching the "numbers". After 5 wks now, I'm down 10lbs. I eat 1100 calories a day, power-walk 30 minutes after my lunch 5xwk and go to the gym for an hour twice a week. It will begin to come off, but you have to do it correctly and choose something you can stick to. I knew I couldn't go to the gym everyday, I have too much else to do, but I certainly could walk on my lunch-hour for 30 minutes every day. Choose something you can stick to or it's too easy to give up. Good luck and hang in there!

A pound a week is pretty good. It's actually the recommended rate. You might want to try a weight charting app like Libra if you're feeling let down by it. It's based on the Hacker's Diet model and weights each weigh in and gives you an idea of the average calorie deficit a day that you're maintaining to hit that point. And then it draws a trend line based on your actual weigh ins and weight loss/gain. So you can see that even though your actual weight bobs up and down, there's a definite pattern of progress. It's really good for those days you gained half a pound after killing yourself in a workout.

I don't know your weigh in routine but try to make sure you're weighing in at the same time and in the same clothing and in the same condition every time. I know that seems obvious, but drinking a glass of water right before you weigh in will add weight. I can lose a pound by emptying my pockets and jeans weigh more than slacks, etc. I can gain two or three pounds by weighing while my hair is still wet.

I'm just pointing this out because if you weighed yourself a week ago when you first woke up (when we're usually at our lightest) and hadn't gotten dressed yet and then a week later, weighed yourself before you went to bed (when we're at our heaviest from eating all day) while wearing jeans and a t-shirt -- you probably lost more than a pound.

If you really want to be accurate and consistent, weight in naked in the morning after you've finished in the bathroom and before breakfast. That way, the scale won't be picking up whatever you just ate, variations in the weight of your clothing, etc.

And another thing you need to keep in mind is that you're working out hard. I mean really hard. And dieting hard. So what's going on is that you're losing fat and gaining muscle. Since muscle is denser and heavier than fat, if you replaced a fist-sized ball of fat with a fist-sized ball of muscle ... you gained weight. If you're building muscle *and* losing weight ... there's nothing to be discouraged about there. In fact, you might want to slow down the workouts a little (or up your calories) to make sure your body can support the new muscle while you're getting into shape.

Sorry you might be going through the motions, but you are on track to fizzle out because you havent prepared well enough for the journey ahead. Take a breath and rethink your approach otherwise you are going to have burnt out within a few weeks and thats entirely foreseeable and preventable. Dont make it harder for yourself than it needs to be. Think about the whole journey in front of you and this is only one week, dont expect instant consistent results, it doesnt work that way. You will also have some triumphs (dont let it go o your head) and you will also have some tougher times. Youve lost 1lb which is good, its 1lb further to your goal, unless you quit.

Patience, perspective and preparation will serve you well. Focus on your logging and weighing, exercise can come later, but the emphasis should be on consumption and deficit creation. 1000 calories is not enough it should be 1200 minimum plus some exercise calories. Giving up doesnt get you any closer to where you want to be.

You may be losing inches and not pounds. If you gain muscle mass you will not see a difference on the scale. Take your measurements.

I agree with Madeline_land plus 1 pound loss per week is about what is recommended. It's hard to lose more than that on a sustainable diet. Make some adjustments along the way and hang in there.

Sounds like you are working out a lot, possibly not eating enough. I would give up too if I was eating that little!

Do not just watch the scale...follow your body measurements, too. Muscle replacing fat might not be so noticiible on the scale but you'll really see it in your measurements, and feel it in your clothes.

A group of us are trying to not weigh in the whole month of May. Join us and see if the angst you're feeling about "only" losing one pound eases when you're not constantly thinking of your next weigh in.

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