Quit drinking alcohol, not losing weight

No it doesn't, your body will be healing it's self now that you have stopped drinking. It needs calories and protein to do that.

It's only been a week. Drop by another 100 and see how you get on but don't go to 1200.

Congratulations on stopping drinking.

No. Change nothing. A week isn't any kind of reasonable trial period.

And if you're at 2000 cals, why the desire to go 1200? Rethink. Lots of room to work below 2000 before you cut to 1200. Give it a chance

Beautiful__Ending wrote: »

I was drinking about everyday for a year. About 8-9 beers plus a bunch of junk food while intoxicated. I gained 40 pounds. It's been a week since I quit drinking. I've been counting calories but staying about 2000 just because I've just felt really hungry. I haven't lost any weight and I'm a little ticked off. I'm thinking of cutting down to 1200 calories starting tomorrow, having one maintenance days week, and working out 4x a week. Does this seem like a good plan?

First, did you plug your stats into MFP? What is the calorie target the system gave you? (I would suggest starting with one lb. a week because, as another poster mentioned, your body is healing).

Second, get yourself a food scale. There are good ones you can get for $15 or so at places like Amazon and Walmart. Getting an idea of portion size as well as a good handle on your macro mix through accurate logging will help for the long run.

Lastly, be patient with yourself. The best advice I was given when I first started out was: "you are NOT making a big change in your life, you are making a series of small changes". You have already changed one thing, stopped drinking. Make that a habit and move on to another thing (like weighing and measuring food). When that becomes a habit, then pay more attention to actual calorie and macro counts.