1 week on 1200 calories diet and want to lose1.5 lbs/week.

Okay, what do you mean?
If you followed your meal plan consisting of 1200 calories per week and burned 500 calories in the whole week then you SHOULD have lost weight. If you did not lose weight, you are doing something wrong. I suggest you look at your meal plan again and fix those numbers because something ain't right. Nutrition is EVERYTHING.
If you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight
If you eat less calories than you burn you will lose weight.

geekmob wrote: »

Okay, what do you mean?
If you followed your meal plan consisting of 1200 calories per week and burned 500 calories in the whole week then you SHOULD have lost weight. If you did not lose weight, you are doing something wrong. I suggest you look at your meal plan again and fix those numbers because something ain't right. Nutrition is EVERYTHING.
If you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight
If you eat less calories than you burn you will lose weight.

She isn't necessarily doing something wrong (although if she's netting 700 calories like her post reads that's a different story). Weight loss isn't linear, and if the exercise is new it's quite likely she's retaining water that would mask any weight loss.

The important thing to remember is you didn't gain it over night you won't loose it overnight. It's taken me two years to loose 40 pounds and still going. I'm no longer on medication and the difference in my energy level is amazing! I dropped four pant sizes in two years. It is a long process but has totally been worth it. I was extremely over weight. Set goals and results won't happen overnight.it takes time but eventually it will happen and don't give up. Just because you don't see results now doesn't mean you won't you have to push past that point. Try unsweetened green tea and sweeten if with some honey. It worked wonders for my metabolism. I started out in a 4x and now I'm an xl and you can to. Add me.

Jmbean84 wrote: »

seska422 wrote: »

geekmob wrote: »

Okay, what do you mean?
If you followed your meal plan consisting of 1200 calories per week and burned 500 calories in the whole week then you SHOULD have lost weight. If you did not lose weight, you are doing something wrong. I suggest you look at your meal plan again and fix those numbers because something ain't right. Nutrition is EVERYTHING.
If you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight
If you eat less calories than you burn you will lose weight.

Calorie counting isn't like counting money. A calorie deficit will result in weight loss over time. Women are especially prone to weight fluctuations due to hormones. If you run what you think is a calorie deficit for a month or two and don't lose weight, then you need to start troubleshooting.

Here's a recent 3 month trend line for me where every day was at or below my calorie goal:



Weight loss takes time and patience.

This post helped me a lot. I know I should not worry about the scale. But I do. I get upset to even see it go up 1 or 2 lbs even though I know it can fluctuate that much and more in the course of a single day. This graph was an eye opener for me. I need to look at a graph of my long term.

Fluctuations are normal... especially for women!!!!

I weigh myself daily (which isnt for everyone) because I like to see how my weight evolves from one day to the next.

For example, saturday mornig I weighed 278. I went on a long walk the same day, burned 1200cal, ended up with a 1000+ calories deficit for the day on top on my set deficit (-1.5/week like you). Sunday morning... 281. Did I do somwhing wrong? Absolutely not. My muscles were healing so I am retaining water. As of this morning it is down to 279.

As everybody said, lots of factors will move your weight up amd down. Keep doing what you are doing. Weigh and log everything, exercise and DRINK a lot and you will loose weight as long as you keep under your set calories/day.

Remember it's a marathon, not a sprint!

Also weightloss. Some weeks I do all the right things, exercise plenty (netting 900 cals a day) and GAIN weight.