Slow, slow, slow

How many calories are you consuming daily? Have you seen any weight loss?

I started Jan 22 and lost 4.9# so far. I'm not a big exerciser, mostly walk my dog. I track everything and even go over some days. I was hoping to lose more but I'm not willing to drastically restrict my calories. So I'm happy with slow steady loss and yet feel satisfied. Big goal is losing the weight and learning moderate portions to maintain it. A big feat!! You can do it!! Like bubblegum said, the simple math of more burned than intake is the straightforward answer. I even gained a pound middle of one week as just too much over a few days negated any loss. It's a fine balance. But over time you must eat less calories to lose the weight. Especially if you're not into crazy exercise to offset your calories.
Decide what balance is tolerable for you and you will see results!!

I am a 50 year old female, 5'2" tall, and would like to lose about 50 lbs of fat. I started on 1/3/17 lifting weights 3 x a week, 30 min of Cardio Dance DVD's 2 x per week, upping my protein a ton, I weigh and measure everything, am eating 1300 calories 6 days per week and eating anything my heart desires 1 day per week. I have lost 1 pound per week.

cupcakes8kr wrote: »

Alloutof_Bub According to the reports on MFP i have been eating between 1190 or so and 1500 calories since 1/23 Exercise I have been doing 500 - over 1000 calories burned .
Kyladefranco - nope no loss.

You're not eating *enough*. 1190 calories is below the absolute minimum anyone should be eating, which is 1200 calories. But even at 1500 calories, with the amount you currently weigh and the amount of exercise you're getting, your body has gone into famine mode--it thinks it has to hang onto every little ounce of food/calorie because it's not getting enough fuel. Try upping to 1500-1800 calories for a week. Better yet, do that for a week and then on the day after that, eat *more*. You may just see a drop. I did that and every single time I weighed myself after the day when I could eat more, I'd lost weight.

Not sure how tall you are ? 20 pounds by June 3rd should be doable as I am assuming you are most likely in the obese category? It is harder to lose weight when you are closer to your ideal weight . I agree you are not eating enough . I am eating around 1500 calories a day and I am losing 2 pounds a week consistently and I am a grandma who has had a full hysterectomy so although weight loss might not be easy it is doable at your age

Yeah I agree with everyone else here. I started on Jan 1 and I'm down 12, from 220. At first I wasn't getting any results only a couple pounds lost within the first few days which I soon learned was water weight. MFP recommended me to eat only 1100 calories, yet I am 5'11 and 220 pounds male(well was to start). I was waay under eating, I can't even imagine to what extent I was starving my body as I was going to the gym 4-5 days a week. I didn't start seeing results until I upped my calories to 2,000 after some research. Now I'm gradually loosing 1-2 pounds a week. Kind of ironic when I realized I wasn't loosing weight because I wasn't eating enough. Might be your case as well, you'd have to test it yourself. Maybe try a different DCE calculator('s) to figure out how much calories you should be eating instead of MFP, and that way you can add a custom calorie goal to the app.