2 weeks and only .6lbs lost. What am I doing wrong?

sheesh am clearly asleep over here. You posted 0.6lbs. Maybe you are giving your exercise too many points. I often think the machines in gyms etc over estimate. Have you tried eating but not eating your exercise points? Make sure you dont eat too little though.
In any case you may find it all comes off in a rush next week!

are you eating all your calories even the extra ones you get from working out? sometimes your body needs more calories even than is suggested when you're exercising...hope that helps!

Only 6 lbs in two weeks? Are you serious? Thats great! You should be proud, not beating yourself up. Have you weighed that out in measurement and picked it up? - bags of sugar or packs of butter in the supermarket?

Honestly, dont feel bad you're doing very well! Chin up!

xx

Not sure how tall you are, but since you're goal is 18 lbs to lose, it doesn't seem like you're extremely overweight. That's awesome, but you have to realize that it's going to come off more slowly than it will for someone who is 100 lbs overweight doing the same amount of exercise and eating the same number of calories.

MFP grossly over-estimates my calories burned vs my heart rate monitor. Yesterday, for example, I mountain biked for 3 hours. Heart rate monitor said1257 calories and I think MFP said 2100. That's a big difference if I ate it all back. I notice a lot of people on here put up what seem like really high calorie counts and I can only assume the same thing. Unless you're using a heart rate monitor, you don't really know what you're burning.

If I use MFP to estimate calories, I keep the time, but adjust the calories to half because that's about what it works out to with the heart rate monitor if I compare all the different types of exercise I do.

As for sodium, I personally find it doesn't make a huge difference in my weight numbers when I'm drinking a lot of water, but your body may be more sensitive to it than mine. I'd try changing one thing at a time until you figure out what works for you!

Hope that helps and good luck :-)

Only 6 lbs in two weeks? Are you serious? Thats great! You should be proud, not beating yourself up. Have you weighed that out in measurement and picked it up? - bags of sugar or packs of butter in the supermarket?

Honestly, dont feel bad you're doing very well! Chin up!

xx

Apparently some people don't know what a decimal point is! at 0.6 lbs in 2 weeks, you'd still be at a pound a month, but I think we all want to progress faster than that, so keep adjusting until you get it!

I started off this year and only had 14lbs to lose I thought no big deal I will have that off by March. Well...its way harder to lose the smaller you are. Water and more water and measure yourself its a great NSV if you aren't seeing it on the scale. If you are at a plateau do all your exercises backwards. Good luck I have been fighting this for a couple months now.

Your protein is super low. Try increasing the amount of produce and lean protein in your diet.

Well, you're only two weeks in. That's probably part of it.

Secondly, as long as you're taller than 5'5, you're not technically overweight (BMI greater than 25) and you will lose weight slower than someone with a BMI of say 29. Half a lb a week is a reasonable goal.

Thirdly, water weight fluctuates a lot (2-4 lbs a day normally, I've seen 8+ lbs a day in hospitalized patients with congestive heart failure that were put on a high dose diuretic). The best way to get around this is to have a steady salt intake (eating no salt for a few days then eating a moderate amount will change your water weight drastically, consistency is key) and weigh yourself the same time each weighing. I weigh myself once a week first thing in the AM after I pee.

Fourthly, I didn't look at your journal but it sounds like you aren't eating much in the way of veggies. Don't go overboard on the fruits, they do have a lot of sugar. Sure, it's natural sugar but the physiological effect in your body is the same as a piece of candy. Vegetables are typically not calorie dense and are loaded with nutrients. Try recipe that incorporate more veggies. Soups, chilis, stews, and salads are a great way to accomplish this. When you eat a meal, always start with the veggies.

Water intake is important, drink an 8 ounce glass of water about 20 minutes before you eat. This will cause your stomach stretch receptors to send signals to your brain that your stomach is being filled and will help prevent over eating.

Additionally, the advice about varying your workout routine and adding weight bearing exercises is great. The advice about canning your exercise for light walking is bullocks and I would ignore it (it would be more useful if you had a BMI so high that it was preventing you from exercising). If you aren't exercising you're losing just as much muscle mass as you are fat when you calorie restrict. Muscle burns more calories than fat, a key to long term weight loss is building and maintaining muscle. Yes, muscle weighs more than fat, blah blah blah but I will guarantee you, if you are losing fat it will show up on the scale.

Lastly, I do agree that focusing on measurements is a more accurate way to determine what you're losing. You'll care a lot less about what the scale says when your pants start falling off. But like all good things, it takes time. Hang in there!

looks like u are not eating enough
lots of days u are eating less that 1200 calorie

you should NEVER eat less than 1200 calories:bigsmile:

1) 6lb is NOT a small amount in 2 weeks. As you are not massively overweight I would say thats pretty good!

2) go to a butchers (the one in the supermarket will do) and ask him for 1lb of fat... you will be surprised how big it really is

Good luck x

Set your goal to lose .5 lb a week- if you don't have too much to lose, you don't want a huge deficit. If I lose slowly, I always increase my calories, especially if I am not losing. I know it sounds counterintuitive, but it works! I usually never go below 1500. Use the BMR tool on this site and don't eat below that.

Good luck and be patient!

2 weeks and only .6lbs lost? it's not ONLY.. i think you are doing very well!

2 weeks and only .6lbs lost? it's not ONLY.. i think you are doing very well!

The OP means 0.6lbs, she isn't satisfied with that.

Eat less. If you want to lose weight you need to eat less not more. This is common sense

Didn't read the Topic posts, did ya?

Common sense doesn't mean you understand body energy needs and metabolism.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/539980-people-who-have-had-success-by-upping-their-calories
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/518533-major-sucess-with-higher-calories
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/531583-an-easier-way-to-setup-goal-calories-eating-for-who-you-wi


And many many more of people realizing what doesn't work beyond a short time, and being given advice by those wiser that experienced the wrong direction.