Less Calories isn't equally weight loss... HELP

Because I'm not aware if your diet is physician directed, I will not comment on the low calories. Just be prepared for some aggressive comments that may come your way.

To answer your question, the big variance in your weight in a 24 hour period is most likely fluid. My weight can fluctuate 5 lbs a day.
I would drive myself nuts weighing all the time. Now, I just weigh every other week. This let's me see trends instead of freaking out over normal fluctuations.

I used to do the same, but weight fluctuates a lot so it is advisable to weigh only once a week and you have to have 1200 calories a day from healthy food to keep your metabolism rolling....its really disheartening , when you dont see changes on scale...so its better you keep a day of the week on which you do your weigh in..that way you will see result...All the Best..you can do it!

Step away from the HCG and begin a diet plan that will get the weight off AND keep it off as maintenance is the harder part of the journey.

You are setting yourself up for muscle loss, a depressed metabolism, and a flabby unappealing "skinny" body.

So in conclusion, EAT. Eat the recommended MINIMUM of 1200 calories (and more if you plan on exercising). HCG will most likely NOT get you to your goals.

eating waaaaaay too little.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/23912-links-in-mfp-you-want-to-read-again-and-again

educate yourself (and I mean that sincerely, not to be mean)

Way to few calories!!

Your body needs more calories otherwise it will go in to panick mode < which bacsically it will try and hold on to anything u eat to get energy from.

Also cos you are eating so few calories you will be slowing your metablisim down so there for hardly any calories will be burned as your body will not be getting what it needs,

Eventaully ur body will go in tpo starvation mode and you will become ill.

Try this and see how it goes;

250 Cals for breakfast
250 Cals For Lunch
600-700 cals For dinner

and then 200 cals for a snack in between

Choose healthy options and you will see the difference within a few weeks.

Good luck

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Try 600-700 calories for breakfast then a lower calorie dinner.

Definitely need more calories if youre going to lose weight consistently.. you might see more to begin with but eventually your metabolism will catch up.. it's better to start 200 below what youre used to eating then drop by 200 a week until you get to 1200. Otherwise your body thinks its not getting enough..

As for the weight gain through the day.. probably the food in your system and fluid retention.. calories arent an automatic gain or loss, it happens over the course of several days so the recommendation is to only weigh yourself every week at most.. I personally weigh myself 2x a day and the scale is ALWAYS at LEAST 2lbs higher in the afternoon.. so just be aware of that if you are going to weigh constantly..

Way to few calories!!

Your body needs more calories otherwise it will go in to panick mode < which bacsically it will try and hold on to anything u eat to get energy from.

Also cos you are eating so few calories you will be slowing your metablisim down so there for hardly any calories will be burned as your body will not be getting what it needs,

Eventaully ur body will go in tpo starvation mode and you will become ill.

Try this and see how it goes;

250 Cals for breakfast
250 Cals For Lunch
600-700 cals For dinner

and then 200 cals for a snack in between

Choose healthy options and you will see the difference within a few weeks.

Good luck

Add me x

Try 600-700 calories for breakfast then a lower calorie dinner.

It doesn't make any difference how you spread them out, it's the same total.

Hi Latinabubbles! I can totally relate to where you're coming from. When I first started my weight loss journey I weighed in several times a day, too. It's incredibly frustrating to see that number go up when you know you're doing the right things-e.g. working out. I learned the hard way that these folks are right-weigh once a week. Our body weight just naturally fluctuates throughout the day. No matter how good we are, it's going to go up during the day. In fact, it will go up during a workout due to perspiration and water retention (a friend told me that-who knew?). I'm still guilty of weight more often sometimes, but now it's just for curiosity and I only pay attention on Friday mornings, which is my official weigh-in day.

Here are some lessons I learned about true lifestyle change:

1. Starvation doesn't work-we do have to eat enough calories of good food. That means about 1200 calories. I find it hard to do some days (amazing that!), but I can usually get around 1100 with healthy meals and snacks. Since it's all estimates I don't stress about the rest. This gives the body enough fuel to start burning away that fat on my thighs, belly and love handles.

2. Exercise is good and it feels good. It takes time to show, however. It really did take about 3-6 weeks before I started seeing true weight loss from this. But it did happen.

3. Water is the magic pill. A personal trainer told met this close on 20 years ago and he was so right. If you drink at least 8 glasses of water per day your body does so much better at everything. Weight loss is much better when you're well hydrated.

I hope this helps you as much as it helped me, LatinaBubbles. Love ya and happy journey! Feel free to add me as a friend on this journey. It'd be an honor to share it with you.

LatinaBubbles,

I am sure you will get a lot of negative comments that you are eating too few calories. I did a VLCD that was medically monitored at the Medical University of South Carolina. It was a very effective program and I lost 85 lbs, so it is not completely bad. However, you do need to be careful and make sure that you are being monitored in some way. It needs to be a consistent program. Its not going to do any good to only consume 500 calories today, but then take in 2000 tomorrow. The way a VLCD works is at first your body will go in to a type of starvation mode, which I am sure most people will tell you that's why you will not lose weight because the body is not getting rid of the stored fats it's trying to preserve them because you are in starvation mode. However, after doing this for several days, your body will begin burning stored fats and you will begin to see a weight loss. You will lose a lot the first couple weeks, and then you will see a steady loss after that. The diet I did was 900-1000 calories a day, and it was a great program they had group support meetings once a week, you weigh in once a week (which is great for accountability), and you learned how to eat right and read labels. You need to be careful with exercising though with only taking in that few of calories, it was several weeks in to the program before they recommended exercise.

Part of the program I was in they did teach us to weigh every day, but only once a day at the same time of day on the same scale, usually first thing in the morning before or after you shower or get ready. There are a lot of people who disagree with weighing everyday, however, this was very helpful in my maintenance program, so when I would see a discrepency in my weight I knew it was time to buckle down again. The one thing to keep in mind your weight will very throughout the day, it can fluxuate from day to day as much as 4 or 5 lbs, so do not let that discourage you, it could be water retention, it could be that particular time of the month, their are a lot of factors that effect it. Also, you need to think about what type of food you took it, although it was only 450 calories did it contain a lot of salt or was it healthy, etc...

Anyhow, I hope this helps and good luck on your weight loss journey....remember it's not a diet, you have to make a change in your lifestyle and it's not something you do now and it fixes your problem, its something you have to work on the rest of your life. I can testify to this, I lost 85 lbs in 2008-2009 and I did good for the first year of my loss...this past year I have gained 50lbs back and went back to my old habits, I am back on the wagon again and I am working towards losing the weight again and I am hoping that I am able this time to keep it off. I always tell everyone that eating and my habits are comparable to that of an alcoholic and it is a very hard thing to change and stick to it. Having a group to talk to and others like yourself is a big help in the journey and having family and friends as cheerleaders is a big help too!!