Good-bye MyFitnessPal

Don't you go anywhere just yet! As one person said, water weight! All that lifting and moving, I bet you were also drinking a LOT more water that day, weren't you? Eating foods that had just a small bit higher of a sodium content that day also? Come on now!

June 25th isn't that long! Heck, I only just now saw my first loss since I first started working out at the beginning of June! Look at other things instead. Didn't you just say your pants were falling off your butt? Is that belt a bit looser too? Can you walk a bit farther than when you first started? Is your breathing at night a bit better? How about your snoring? Are you still waking yourself up every night from snoring too loudly?

The hardest thing you'll ever do is to just START losing the weight. Once you start, you're over the biggest hurdle. Right now, your body IS changing. Keep it up. Don't give up just yet. Quit measuring your success by the scale and start measuring it by how you FEEL!

Look at your picture! There's no better reason to not quit than that little girl in your arms. Open up your diary so people can see them and give some pointers. Get some more MFP friends because they are an amazing source of love and support. There are answers and reasons to all of this stuff. Don't just walk away. I was 408 and after a week was ready to quit and continue my unhealthy life, as short as it was gonna be. I'm down to 280 now with the thanks of mfp!!!!!

YES - what he said!

Don't give up!!! First, I can tell you that last week I had a 5 lb. gain over a 3-day time span! We were on vacation and I ate out a lot and the salt & water weight did it. I drank water like crazy for 1-1/2 days and miraculously peed the entire 5 lbs. gain away!!

Myfitnesspal isn't going to do it for you! I guess if you are not ready, then quit and come back when you are. It shouldn't be a diet...it needs to be a complete attitude and lifestyle change.

I sincerely hope that you really think it through and give it another chance. I have lost 30 lbs in 3 months on my goal of losing 100 lbs. and every minute, good and bad have been worth how great I am feeling. You can do it too!!!!!!!!!!

quitters never win... winners never quit.

wow, I hate to see you give up on your desire to loose weight. It's not easy (I know, as well as all of us on here) Yes, sometime when I eat the best and exercise regularly I too gain (not sure why) then I have a bad day and get up and have lost weight??? Go figure. This website is here for support and advice. No one can do it for us... We have to want it and figure out what works for us. I hope you look deep inside and realize all of us are really the same, we want to be healthier, loose weight, feel good and look good. But some of us it takes longer and we have to work harder. Don't give up on yourself, it takes time........

I'm sorry to read this and i can feel a lot of pain and frustration coming through your post.
There is so much more you need to take into consideration ..not just muscle gain and starvation. for exmp. you can retain water from i nflamed muscles- you have been lifting so much heavy stuff- your muscles could be inflamed and therefor retain water- which than shows gain on the scale- but that is not " fat gain " it's a short period -it will go away . The scales are bad they don't show you muscle increase, water retention or fat loss.. you could drink 3 gallons of water today and it will show you that you have gained, now is that true ? You know it's not.

Losing weight is not an easy task, but it is worth. Is it worth to you ? what does it mean to you ? What is your motivation ?
Just plain " i want to be thinner " doesn't cut it, it's not real motivation , it's not something that makes many of us suffer and do all that we do .. it has to have a more meaningful goal, end to it.

Once you attach your feelings to that" more important end " than it will be a little bit easier. It took me a long time - a decade - to understand that " i want to be skinny " wasn't good enough.. .. i didn't have a personal emotional investment in that goal. Yes - smaller size clothes are apealing etc.. and buying clothes was frustrating and depressing. but somehow didn't get me to the goal.
Now i have finally figured out " what is it that i WANT " ..
What do YOU want ?

Staying " fat " is just an excuse out of the life,.. if you don't try you can't fail.. and failing hurts.. we all fail, but we keep trying, no one will think less of you if you try and fail.. the only way you can fail is when you give up.
Don't give up. If losing weight was that simple- everyone would be skinny. It is hard, it is frustrating, devestating, sometime depressing.. i have fallen of the wagon more times than i can count, i have lost 80 l bs, gaine 50 back, lost 15 gained 10 back.. i have lost tons of weight in my twenties.. but one thing i have never done- GIVE UP . I can't give up on myself ! And you shouldn't either. Never give up .
We are here to help and support- yes you are still the one that has to do the work- each one of us has to do it- but it' s allready hard enough , don't make it harder by leaving the support you have here- because i'm sure you ( like most of us ) don't have this type of support in your environment.
Take it- do the best you can. Keep trying. Learn from mistakes, learn from other peoples mistake and successes.. but don't give up.

Wish you the best

Please reconsider. This is a long process, you have to find what works for you, but it takes time. It sounds like you have already made some changes, now you need to give your body the time to adjust.

You can do it.

http://youtu.be/oNQLClLLIYQ

- You can not gain 3 lbs of fat if you have been working out and eating right. Something else is going on. DO NOT GIVE UP!
I believe in God and I also believe satan wants you to fail. Do NOT let satan win!!!!!!

Could it be that you're eating back too many of your exercise calories? Once I got a heart rate monitor, I found that the MFP estimates for calories burned were WAY more than I was actually burning, so eating back most of your calories based on what the database tells you might be too much. It could also be water weight gain, as many have already suggested. Without being able to see your diary, all anyone can do is guess, but you really should give it a little longer before you pack it in. You need to give it time to figure out what works for you and your body, because right now, it sounds like you have no idea. Just hang in there!

The day to day is hard and overwhelming when you have a lot of weight you want to lose, but days turn into weeks and weeks turn into months. If you make the decision to stick with it, you will never regret that decision. If you decide to quit 6 months from now will you be happy with that decision? I hope you decide to stick with it!

I know it's been said before, it is probably water weight. And I don't want to butcher this theory or body process, but there is something about muscles retaining water to help them repair themselves after a hard workout. I'd say building a brick wall would be a hard workout for anybody. If you are only eating half of your recommended amount, you really could be in starvation mode. Try eating 75-80% of your recommended amount and see if it gets any better. And don't weigh yourself every day - it will make you crazy.

:mad: I'm actuallyl appauled at some of the responses to this. The Quitter stuff is the kind of stuff I used to get from my Dad, and it only made me want to go to the kitchen and gorge myself!! Sometimes tough love isn't what's needed, it's a kind heart and compassion that we need to succeed!!!!:mad:

if you're lifting that much (I think I read that right), you might have gained muscle weight. you gain muscle faster than you lose weight. the more muscle you have, the faster you'll lose weight. good luck!!!

Not to start a controversy, but this isn't true. It takes weeks to build muscle (and BTW it takes weeks to go into starvation mode). What happens is that during the process of building muscle, the body retains more water to protect the muscle from the strain of expansion. So in a sense, his weight gain was probably the result of his body storing water around newly developing muscle.

Muscle retains water to repair itself and with all that hard work you have been doing it could just be water. Drink lots. Stick with it. I stuck at my weight for weeks but lost inches.

You can do this; you have proved it by losing 10lb already.