Plateauing already?!??

Sweet_Misery_
Sweet_Misery_ Posts: 29 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I am starting out very heavily morbidly obese and with awful food and exercise habits. Starting weight: 420. MFP gave me a calorie goal of 2300. For the first 7 days I stayed at 2100-2300 calories eaten AND exercised a solid 30-60 minutes each day. I lost 4 pounds in one week! Great!! Week 2 and for days 7-10 I continued doing everything the same. And on day 10 I had gained back those 4lb and back to 420. Days 11-14 kept doing the same and still at 420 :( Granted...I have not been doing super intense workouts, but I have been walking or doing exercise bike for a good amount of time every single day. I have not been eating super healthy....but nonetheless a huge improvement from my prior eating habits of fast food multiple times a day, eating as much as I want, box of cookies for a bedtime snack, etc.

I am so discouraged. What am I doing wrong?? I really thought that given my size ANY change would be good to start.

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  • DustinAllgood
    DustinAllgood Posts: 7 Member
    edited March 2017
    Weight loss is mostly about your diet. Eat tons of veggies and eat lean proteins and healthy fats. Id also recommend cutting out sugar because it cause cravings and spikes insulin witch keeps you from burning fat. If you have Netflix go watch sugar coated and tell me what you think.
  • STC02
    STC02 Posts: 48 Member
    I thought that too, and technically it would work eventually.

    I realised it's everything in moderation. If you realise you snack at night, have a 200-400 cal breakfast, 400 cal lunch and 600 cal dinner, leaving 600-800 for snacks at night.
    Trust me just keep going, it works eventually. For two weeks straight I stayed the same, 3rd week I lost 4lb. It is ups and downs all the way but coming through the downs is key.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Sweet_Misery_ wrote: »
    I am starting out very heavily morbidly obese and with awful food and exercise habits. Starting weight: 420. MFP gave me a calorie goal of 2300. For the first 7 days I stayed at 2100-2300 calories eaten AND exercised a solid 30-60 minutes each day. I lost 4 pounds in one week! Great!! Week 2 and for days 7-10 I continued doing everything the same. And on day 10 I had gained back those 4lb and back to 420. Days 11-14 kept doing the same and still at 420 :( Granted...I have not been doing super intense workouts, but I have been walking or doing exercise bike for a good amount of time every single day. I have not been eating super healthy....but nonetheless a huge improvement from my prior eating habits of fast food multiple times a day, eating as much as I want, box of cookies for a bedtime snack, etc.

    I am so discouraged. What am I doing wrong?? I really thought that given my size ANY change would be good to start.

    Sounds like you're just being impatient. Are you due to get your period?

    Do you weigh everything you eat with scales?
  • cordney
    cordney Posts: 73 Member
    Are you weighing your food?
  • bigdreamer252
    bigdreamer252 Posts: 1 Member
    You might be retaining a lot of water from starting to exercise, you muscles might be tearing and your body is retaining water to heal the muscles. This happened to me in the beginning of my journey where the scale didn't move for three weeks. Drink lots of water to combat the water retaintion
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
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  • Duchy82
    Duchy82 Posts: 560 Member
    First keep going you're doing great.

    Now you have 2 weeks of food log have a look back, where can you improve? make one or two small improvements it could be as simple as some of the following:

    Use a food scale to measure what you are eating it will improve accuracy and is a bit of an eye opener (if you don't already)

    Be critical of which entries you use from the database some are less accurate than others, double check against labels where possible.

    I did things like slowly removing added sugar from my porridge to shave off some calories, trying new vegetables or recipes that were lower calorie than my usual foods.

    Also be aware we ladies do have to contend with water retention at different parts of our cycle, new exercise also causes water retention and it could be a fair bit (10lbs worth has been my worst).

    Don't give up, battle through this and you will see the results.
  • Muscleflex79
    Muscleflex79 Posts: 1,917 Member
    are you weighing everything you eat??

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