Disappointed and ready to give up :(

You can do it! Wait 7 days to weigh yourself - that's a WW rule too Remember that so many factors affect weight so it can appear to fluctuate from day to day. I'm sure you're drinking lots of water - I wouldn't count other liquids as water even if some programs say it's okay. Stick with it! You're not alone. I started yesterday and have a long journey ahead. This is a team!

Remember the old saying.....ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT!!! Well, I think they wrote that for weight-loss in particular! Do not give up. I also gave up so many times only to start over again and again. Eash time for desperate and frustrated than the last! I had to put the scale away.....literally. I get it out every 2 weeks or so. That way I don't get discouraged so easily. Patience and Persistence are the keys to success:flowerforyou:

Don't give up! If I can do this, anyone can!

I'm now on Day 770 and have tracked almost every single morsel of food I've eaten every one of those days. I lost 50 lbs in a year, have kept it off for a year, and am now REALLY struggling with my old bad eating habits (junk food).....but I am NOT giving up!

If you lost 7 lbs the first week at Weight Watchers it was all fluid, it was not fat....you're much better off losing 1 to 2 lbs of mostly fat every week. The old saying "slow and steady wins the race" is certainly true when it comes to weight loss.

MFP is a great place to come for support and, sometimes, the kick in the butt we all need to stay on course. Stay with us, you won't regret it!!!!

Thanks for all of the responses......and the tough love. I understand where people are coming from saying what do you expect after 3 days......I am not expecting a huge loss but I sure as heck didnt expect a gain. I am basing it off of past weight loss attempts where the first week showed a bigger loss. I will take the sodium advice and try to watch that some. I take water pills daily for my blood pressure and sometimes I think i figure thats ok I can eat the sodium and let the water pills do the work and that is not the right way to think.

I had the same problem! I did weight watchers the first time I lost weight. I lost 70 lbs in 7 months. 12lbs in the first 2 weeks! The problem? It didn't work! Why? Because gained it all back and couldn't keep up with the lifestyle. I tried WW again right before I came to MFP for good at the beginning of the year. And this is the difference:

I took my Diary from WW and plugged it into MFP for 1 full week. I was eating 29 points+ (new program) and no bonus points for the week. I didn't eat the bonus points because I didn't have to. I calculated 1000 calories or less per day. I did the same thing for the old program (18-23 points and you can bank up to 5 per day) When I plugged in a few typical days from the old system 700-900 calories per day with 2 higher days of around 1800 calories .

You can do WW and lose the same way you do on here, but are you going to have someone look at your diet plan and say "your sodium looks a little high" or the best part Eat and still lose weight?

Don't compare the numbers. I keep the thought that I don't every have to diet again! Do you know how awesome that feels!! I am changing my lifestyle. I am going to enjoy food and exercise for the rest of my life. I never again have to PAY someone to tell me what to eat, I can do that on my own. And once the weight is gone it will not come back because I am not on a diet!!!

Don't give up it takes time you wont see much results after just 3 days. Try to lower your sodium that is what happened to me I cut down sodium and do not put salt on anything anymore. Don't look at the scale for 2 weeks and then go back and look. Please just hang in there it will get better.

High expectations in weight loss is the usual cause of failing when trying to lose weight. Quit weighing often and continue on calorie deficit. The weight will come off if you stay consistent.

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This too! I have failed too many times because of this!

Oh yes, it will definitely take time I try not to weight myself every week.

Drink plenty of fluids and just keep up the great work that you're doing

Before you know it, you'll be walking those pounds right off

what she said, pick a date a couple weeks out from now to weigh, also take measurements and make a little chart to log it. But don't weigh everyday or even every week if you can stand it.

This is my third day and im already ready to quit. I have been so good about what I eat and put EVERYTHING down in food diary. I have been under my calories and have been walking for 3 days now. I got on the scale this morning all excited and I gained 2 lbs!! How can that happen? When i went to weight watchers before that first week is the biggest loss like 7 or 8 lbs then it slowed down to 1-2 per week after that. Help me please :sad:

I don't understand getting on the scale after three days...i still do but you just started and your body will make adjustments. i will send you a link on MFP that explains it all.
dont quit

This is my third day and im already ready to quit. I have been so good about what I eat and put EVERYTHING down in food diary. I have been under my calories and have been walking for 3 days now. I got on the scale this morning all excited and I gained 2 lbs!! How can that happen? When i went to weight watchers before that first week is the biggest loss like 7 or 8 lbs then it slowed down to 1-2 per week after that. Help me please :sad:

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Lastly, the human body has a 5 lb swing daily. That means that on any given 24 hour period yo can go from 5 lbs above your "real" weight to 5 lbs below. Due to water weight, and waste we can swing quite a bit. The scale is a generalist at best, good for an Idea of where you are, but not very good at calculating exact measurements. I generally recommend weighing yourself no more then once every 2 weeks, at the same time, same day every week. Use other measurements along with this, I.E. size measurments, Body Fat %, and over all fitness level to make up the difference.

this was tken from communtity newbies. at the top of all the topics it says should read.

I second much of what has been said here. Three days is too soon to expect measurable results. In order to maintain healthy weight, healthy habits are what you need, and a habit takes 21 days to establish. This is not all-or-nothing. It's investment.

But: find out your basal metabolic rate to determine how many calories you burn "at rest" (during your typical day).
Don't cut out all fats from your diet. Your body needs them.
Log all your calories.
Then, exercise and log it. One lb. of fat is 3500 calories. So, if you want to lose a lb. per week, you need a 500 calorie deficit every day. 2 lbs., 1000 calorie deficit per day. Etc.
A woman's cycles affects weight.
Stress can prevent weight loss.
Sodium can cause water retention.

The best way to lose weight is to increase your metabolism, and do both cardio and resistance training (doesn't have to be "weights") together. Get your heartrate up to your max (your number will be based on your age), and keep it up there. The longer you do, the more calories you'll burn.

The secret is that there's no secret. It's mostly math.

Robin

When I started it took me 3 weeks to lose 1#. Glad I didn't give up (see my ticker below). You can't control the scale. You can control what you eat and how you move. So focus on what you can control. The scale will eventually be forced to cooperate.