Want to hear stories of your first few weeks

JennyJeneralGraves
JennyJeneralGraves Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi people. I am at the end of week 1 and see no weight loss - strangely I am exactly at the same starting weight. Normal? I am not cheating and I am a large portion of the time hungry.

What's your experience/insight?

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  • capaul42
    capaul42 Posts: 1,390 Member
    Are you weighing all solid foods with a food scale? That was a mistake I made my first few weeks.
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    I made lots of mistakes in my first few months. I didn't weigh food, I "forgot" to log bites and tastes I took of foods, I didn't even try to be accurate a few days out of the week. It took me a long time to learn that accuracy helps me understand my body's needs. I still only averaged 20 pounds of loss per year.
  • emdeesea
    emdeesea Posts: 1,823 Member
    usmcmp wrote: »
    I made lots of mistakes in my first few months. I didn't weigh food, I "forgot" to log bites and tastes I took of foods, I didn't even try to be accurate a few days out of the week. It took me a long time to learn that accuracy helps me understand my body's needs. I still only averaged 20 pounds of loss per year.

    Yep, me too.

    I started out, as so many people do, using cups and measuring spoons to measure. I estimated a lot, or I went strictly by the packaging. I never recorded tastes, bites here and there, etc. As a result of all of that, I got very down on myself when the scale didn't move.

    But hey, the important thing that I did learn is to keep going and learn from the information posted on these threads. Believe me, I read all of them lol! And the key was that I didn't quit.
  • capaul42
    capaul42 Posts: 1,390 Member
    I also forgot to log what I cooked in when I started, like butter and oils. That adds up quickly!
  • no_day_but_2day
    no_day_but_2day Posts: 222 Member
    It's been a week... Give it time.
  • girl_inflames
    girl_inflames Posts: 374 Member
    I believe it took me a couple weeks to see any progress. I cut down to 1200 calories and stuck with it. in 4 weeks I lost 14 pounds (probably a lot of water weight) and 4 months later I'm down 37 pounds. It takes *time* just keep on the wagon!
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