Impatient or Incorrect? My weight isn’t decreasing

So I’ll be very honest. I’m not good at the whole diet and working out thing. I reach a point, lose weight, then stop, then slowly gain the weight back, then start dieting and stuff again, so on and so forth.
In summer 2017 I was about 130 something pounds, and lasted around that weight for a while. In October I took a birth control (depo shot) that kind of contributed to my weight skyrocketing. Eventually I stopped taking it because my weight was going up by several intervals (130 to 140 to 159). It still hasn’t worn off completely, and currently I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been (170s, which is a lot for a person only 5 ft).

Anyway, it made me get serious about my health and weight loss, and even as a sugar and carbohydrate addict I’m trying to incorporate more healthy things into my diet while staying between 1200 to 1400 calories a day. I started taking a spin class, walking more now that the weather is clearing up, and I’m even trying to learn how to swim. It’s all in great fun, and I’m happy that I’m attempting to do something about my health, but something feels off.

I’ve been logging results for 15 days now, and I kind of expected different results. 15 days ago, I was around 176, teetering around 177 or something. At one point when I started my weight was going down to 172, then it went up to 173, and for the last few days it’s been around 175. Maybe it’s too early to say, but I expected a little more progress than this? Maybe maintain that 172? What am I doing wrong? I’m trying to lower my dairy intake. Should I lower something else, too? What can I do to see consistency? Am I getting way too worked up too soon? And how can I curb my sweet tooth? I love fruits and stuff, but I love chocolate, too. However if the sweets are doing this to me what can I do to curb the train?

Thanks for your help!

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  • jelleigh
    jelleigh Posts: 743 Member
    Im not sure if it's been mentioned yet but you should also kniw that your weight will bounce around a lot and it dowsnt mean you are doing anything wrong. Hormone changes, sodium intake, how much food is in your system being digested etc all will make your weight fluctuate by maybe even 5 lbs. You can still be losing fat in the background - you just cant see it on the scale yet. If you get a weight trend tracking app (like Libra or Happy Scale) and weigh every day , it will show you overall whats happening and you will be able to even anticipate spikes and valleys in the number on the scale.
  • Theo166
    Theo166 Posts: 2,564 Member
    edited March 2019
    Focus on logging ALL your calories, and you will know exactly what is doing it to you.

    Since you have a sweet tooth it's extremely important that you log all the sweets, to build your awareness of the calories they give you. I just started logging again a few days ago. Being honest about my fast food yesterday and then donuts today at the staff meeting is really helping me make better decisions. I'm already starting to skip fast food on the way home and only had two donuts this morning, all because I knew I had to log the calories.