I don't understand, please help

Is the walking 15k steps a day a new thing for you? Were you very sedentary before starting the 15k steps? Are you earning calories from cardio or strength training exercise? Is this also a new regimen for you?

Has it only been a week? If you were very sedentary before and are now becoming more active, your body is retaining some water to heal up some of your muscle damage from using them your muscle more than before. This can mask your weight loss. Had you maintained a sedentary lifestyle and just ate at a deficit, you may have seen a big loss on your first week... but it sounds like you prefer being active.

Be patient. Keep doing what you're doing now and look at how your weight has changed over at least 2 - 4 weeks. Some suggest up to 6 weeks. If your weight hasn't changed at all over that period of time, or if your rate of loss is less than expected, then lower the amount of calories you're eating.

TracyRexroad wrote: »

Lifting4LS....I eat what the it tells me to eat...like if it says that I have 500 calories left for the day, I may not be able to eat 500 calories because of the time of day or because I'm not hungry, but I try to stick to what it says to do. So your saying that it gives me 1,200 calories a day and then it will say +238 for excercise, and then the excercise calories will go up depending on how much I move. But to stick to my 1,200 calorie not to include the excercise calories? How do you enable the negative calorie adjustments? I'm just trying to figure this out. Thank you for your help.

NO, I'm saying you have what your tracker shows, (again, have negative calorie adjustments enabled), you eat those. But you made it sound as if you're logging exercise through MFP as well. I was just clarifying NOT to eat those. Log all exercises through your tracker, to avoid doubling up on them.

I don't have a fitbit or any of the weight loss gadgets, so if people say you can't do both, I believe them. You really cannot eat the same exercise calories twice, so manage that however it's supposed to be done.

The app is designed to have you eating those exercise calories (once, lol) so try doing that. Give it a few weeks. If you lose nothing, eat 75% or half of them and see how that goes.

Many people take pride in not eating them, which is fine for them, but not the best way to go. The best thing to do is to eat as much as you can while still losing.

You have to adjust as you go along. See what works and what doesn't. You're going to learn a lot about your body, your eating habits, etc. it's really interesting, but you cannot learn anything until you try something (like using the app in the manner it was intended to be used) and see how it goes.

Give it a shot and a little time to work.

Good luck.

I'd half the calories you're eating back from exercise; mfp is notorious for over-estimating
Good changes though! Just keep plugging away & good luck!

Congrats on getting started & moving more. Isn't it amazing how quickly you can feel better?! Read all the sticky posts at the top of each MFP forum. They contain lots of good info that will help answer your questions.

Only eat half of them back.