Discouraged by weight

You also might want to try a weight trending program like Happy Scale (iPhone) or Libra (Android). You weigh daily and log it. The program uses a predictive algorithm to show you the overall trend of your weight loss (once you have at least a few weeks of data).

It helped me:
* Understand normal daily weight fluctuations due to food, hormones and exercise so I stopped freaking out.
* Take the pressure off weekly weigh-ins.
* Keep the big picture in mind as it would show me where I was headed (sometimes) in spite of where I was. Knowing I was headed in the right direction helped me chill about being a few pounds up from where I thought I should be.

I used to hate the scale and would build up all this anxiety around weigh-ins. Now, each time I weigh is just one small data point in a tool to help me stay healthy.

Don't be discouraged, face reality head on. You may only see progress if you know the weight you are working from.

The calories needed for someone starting at 140could be enough of a difference that if you are eating for someone starting at 150 you don't have enough of a deficit to see a loss.

As @macgurlnet said 'us shorties need to be accurate'. This is so true.
Weigh yourself- knowledge is power.

Use a digital scale for all foods, this too will help with your accuracy.

I am 5'1 and lost from 130 to 105 and have been maintaining within my weight range for over 7 years.

Cheers, h.

I understand where you're coming from. I was weighed by my doctor about a month before starting MFP. This was last September, right before a month of Jewish holidays with about 14 big meals spread out over 30 days. (By big, think Thanksgiving banquets). At that point, I finally decided to do something about it, but for half a week, I didn't get on the scale. I used my SW from the doctor's office, even though I was sure I'd packed on about ten more lbs over the course of the feasting. A few days in, though, I gave myself similar advice to what @DebLaBounty gives a couple of posts above me. And I started to think about how I'd even know if I'd gained, lost, or maintained if I didn't know my start weight. I think it was Day 5. And I forced myself to get on and found myself about a pound less than the SW I'd used.

Yeah, a lot of explanations. Could've been water weight. Could've been that my daily overeating wasn't that much less than the feasting; it had just been healthier food but comparable calories. Could've been TOM or 'Weight loss isn't linear' or Someone up there deciding I'd suffered enough Who wanted to encourage me. Doesn't really matter. I had a solid number to work with and I hadn't made things much worse than they'd been a month ago.

You're here. That's a big first step and it's amazing that you took it. Now you need a way to mark your starting point so you can begin charting your progress. If you don't want to use a scale, use a tape measure (for that, you should check every month or so; it's slower). Judging how your clothes fit is less reliable. I have plenty of clothes that stretched as I spread until they couldn't anymore. So if I dig out that old Size 14 and find I can get into it now? It might really be a 16 or an 18. The scale, for all its inability to tell water retention from fat, is probably most accurate.

Good luck. You can do this.

I too thought I was eatting well and moving. Then I started to log everything and weigh myself and got a fitbit. I learned I was not eatting well enough or moving enough and weighed much more then I thought. Log. Stay in budget. Move more. Weigh yourself. Unless you have a medical condition, your weight will decrease. Sounds like you need a better plan to understand where you're at and what exactly you're eatting. Scale is just a number. Face it and then overcome it. Then the trips to the scale will become rewarding when you see your progress.