1200 calories and not loseing much??

Not much? You're losing 100g a day! If you kept that pace, you'd reach your goal in only 100 days. :flowerforyou:

Do not give up, slow and steady wins the race, look at the bright side you LOST weight :-)

Some weeks it will be less some weeks a bit more , also if the cardio / weight training is more intense you will loose more, try mixing light jogging with your walking

Little steps before big steps. You have no room for reduction in calories because you are starting out at the bare minimum. Think about how long it took you to gain that much weight.

Try this http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html and subtract 200-500 from your TDEE and keep adjusting as you lose weight. Everything starts and finishes with proper nutrition.

Hi,

You’re not going to believe this but my average is 850calories a day and i also have trouble loosing weight. I’m on the Dukan diet that’s why the calories are so low.
I started a few weeks ago and immediately hit a plateau, for at least tree days I didn’t go down 1g but didn’t give up easily and gradually but slowly I’m loosing. It really depends on your metabolism, it changes over the years so don’t worry about not loosing as much as you though you should. Just stick to it, continue doing what you are doing and eventually things will pick up.

Two or three things spring to mind, how accurate are the scales you are using, did you weigh at the same time, on the same day of the week, on the same scales, on the same surface, all of which will dictate how accurate you are weighing. If all of those factors are the same or pretty close, then the second thing is portion control. (I let myself down so often on this myself so I know of what I speak)

Take breakfast cereal according to my packet, 40g is a serving. In the bowl 40g is not enough to cover the bottom of my breakfast bowl, I have, according to my cereal pack, twice as much as they recommend. Same for a portion of salmon 75g which is about the same size as a credit card, and 15mm thick. Portion control comes from experience till you get it, use scales to weigh your food, if you want to “accurately” control your calories. Having said that 700g is over a pound weight and is really good to drop after just one week. Well done for that.

1200 Calories seems really low, i would suggest calculating your TDEE and subtracting 500 calories per day.

If you go too low you will hit a plateau very early and you wont be able to drop further. Your body will also enter starvation mode and you will stop losing weight. 1lb per week is the optimal weight loss amount.

You sound like you are making great progress!

You should be proud that you are doing what you are doing and you are off the mark. Expect the worst when it comes to weigh in then anything lost is a bonus. You should be able to tell from your clothes once you are a few weeks in that MFP does work and you have the support here.

I've come back (after a year I've had things changing and put weight on blah blah) I think this site is really good (not to mention free). I thought by paying weightwatchers it would give me the oomph to work it, but I just found it confusing point counting and the site I don't think matched the enthusiasm of MFP.

Good luck anyway and keep on keeping on... feel free to add me if you want motivation

ok thanks just people say you loose alot at the start so expected a bit more then that lol

That depends how much you have to lose as an overall proportion of your total weight. Someone weighing 250lb can easily lose 10lb in their first week, however if you are not very overweight and don't have huge amounts to lose, the weigh loss will be in smaller increments.

Ive stuck to this religiously and am nearly at my target weight but its taking me weeks to even lose a lb now which is really disheartening and making me make silly decisions with my eating and exercise. It just seems the more I exercise the more I weigh the next day. How do I kick start the weight loss again to hit my target? I've only got 8lbs to go!

Show your diary, otherwise noone can tell you!