Please help me. I'm 18 and MUCH over my calorie goal :(

You're never too fat to exercise. Laziness is something you have to get over. I am the laziest person... can't be bothered doing anything. But you know how I've lost my weight? Just by getting up, putting my shoes on and going for a walk. Just go around the block. Tomorrow, go a bit further. Once you get started, believe me, you won't stop.

You can do it.

i agree with stronglikebul, you either have to eat less, or eat healthier, or exercise..
Its not going to just happen..

I know how hard it can be some days to get motivated, and i know how hard it is not to eat things like chocolate..
But if you really want to loose weight bad enough than you can do something, even if its only 10 minutes exercise...
Its better than nothing.

You can't beat yourself up for not being perfect on your first day. I went over my goal for many weeks before getting the hang of this. Don't worry and make tomorrow a better day.

I'm 19 & I used to be the same way. You are TOO young to feel that way. If you want something to change, YOU have to change it. Get up & move.. You'll begin to love exercising. You deserve to be happy AND healthy. Make a change!!

You can change your goal to be less aggressive to get more calories, ie. 1lb a week instead of 2. If you look at your settings and what they calculate you burn on average with daily activity...as long as you are eating below that, you will still lose weight, it just may take a little longer. You just started, so just logging is a good habit. You can actually see what you eat so you know where you've gone wrong and what to do better. Exercise will help a lot since 1200 is hard for a lot of us to eat that low, so I exercise more to eat a bit more. Don't get discouraged. One day at a time, change a couple habits until you are comfortable and naturally inching toward a healthy lifestyle. You will start to want better food that happens to be lower calorie and you can eat more volume when you do choose that instead.

*Edit, your daily activity is under your "goals" tab. It says I burn over 2000 calories a day, so eating less than that will help me lose weight even if I'm over the 1200 that MFP designated for me in order to lose about 2 per week. It will just add up in smaller increments.

Feel free to add me if you need some extra support. :flowerforyou:

I know how hard it can be to get started. You get into that attitude of "I'm fat, I hate myself, what's the point of even trying."

The fact is, you can ignore it for as long as you want but eventually you have to realize that YOUR choices are the only thing that can change your body.

You say you can't be bothered to exercise? Try. Try to find something you like. I personally HATE exercising, but I love video games and started out by playing Dance Dance Revolution for 30 minutes each day (it burns a surprising amount of calories). I love that game and it made working out so easy. Just try a lot of things. Do you like to swim? Bike? Dance? Play tennis? It does take some effort but eventually you'll find a form of exercise you don't hate. Exercising is great, because the more calories you burn, the more you can eat!

As far as trying to eat fewer calories... it sucks. It's something I still struggle with. But it WILL pay off. You just have to really think about your choices. For example tonight I was planning on having a healthy snack of celery and ranch, then my boyfriend called and offered to bring me food because he was stopping to get some. I came SO close to saying yes, but I really thought about it and realized that accepting his offer would cause me to go over my calorie goal, which would mean more weight for me to worry about, which would mean lower-self esteem and slower results. So I told him no and stuck with the celery. Would I have rather had fast food? Of course! But I'm proud of myself for making a healthy choice. You'll get there, too. This is your first day; don't sweat it! Just try to make small healthy choices every day and soon, you'll start being within your calorie goal.

I know it's discouraging at first, but it's SO awesome when you start seeing results. You'll be proud of yourself and wonder why you didn't start sooner. MFP is awesome and the community here is so nice. If you have any questions, hang around the forums. And good luck!

If you were hungry and you ate over, maybe 1200 is too low and you need to eat more. Don't panic about going over or you are gonna be done with this whole thing really soon.

I say increase the calories and eat, but that's just me.

Also, if you think 400cals is MUCH over, you would freak seeing my diary. I've been 2000 over before. Loved every delicious minute of it.

So, today wasn't a great day - although you are probably still in a calorie deficit and should still lose weight even with 400 cals over today, it's not the end of the world.

The way I see it, at this point you have two choices -

1. to tell yourself: "see, this proves it is too hard and I will never succeed at losing weight. I may as well stay on the couch and eat the rest of that chocolate"
or

2. to tell yourself: "well, that wasn't a great day. BUT, today I know how much I ate. That's a victory. Tomorrow I'm going to be closer to my calorie goal" then walk out that door for 10 minutes, turn around and come back. That's exercising, I bet you can do that!

No one says you have to be perfect everyday and expecting that you will be is the quickest route to failure. Just try every day, make small changes (1 sausage tomorrow not 2), exercise a bit (a 10 minute walk is a good start) and you'll find that it falls into place in time.

Also, if you think 400cals is MUCH over, you would freak seeing my diary. I've been 2000 over before. Loved every delicious minute of it.

This!