Help, please

I've been here about 5 weeks and I've only lost 14lbs I started at 215 and I'm trying to lose 65 but my first week I felt kinda crappy also. I have noticed that the days that i ate a little more I felt better and had more energy.

Try getting in a few extra calories with nuts or trail mix. I found it helped with feeling sluggish and gave me the extra that I need.

I have found that DRASTIC changes in diet are not a successful way to lose weight. You feel horrible, you get discouraged and you quit. I started my diet at 252 pounds. I reduced my calorie intake to about 1800-2000 a day to start. I really reduced portion sizes, but didn't really change WHAT I was eating at first. I've been losing about 2-3 pounds a week since I started (which I think is awesome considering I haven't worked out once! But I do have a job that requires a lot of walking!). But as time has progressed, I find myself eating more fresh fruits and vegetables, less fats. I would say the only thing that I have cut out is fried foods because that extra 300 calories of grease just doesn't taste good enough to take that kind of calorie hit. Now I'm down to 213 and I feel better, but I'm still obese, so of course I'm not going to feel like a thin person does! If I would feel as good at 213 and I will at 150, then what would be the point of losing all this weight! And your body will go through an adjustment period, it's more drastic at first because the changes you made are drastic, but it will start to even out. However, once you get to that even out period you will probably also plateau in weight loss and have to make some minor changes and go through it all over again. it's just your body going through food withdrawals. Withdrawal works like this: when you don't have a substance, you get the opposite effect as it provided you. Like people that use cocaine use it for energy and speed, but when they come down they are exhausted without it. Cigarettes relieve your 'stress', but as you soon as you don't have one you feel stressed again. It's your minds way of getting what it wants and we have to fight it! That's the only way. So food makes you feel relaxed and happy and content, so without all that high fat and sugar and carbs we will feel run down and a little grouchy and tired. But eventually it will pass! And I can already tell you that the health and wellness benefits you will feel down the road will be worth a few months or a year of withdrawals!

I'm coming from Weight Watchers and they always taught us that you have to "eat your points" in order to lose. I'm using that lesson and 'eating my calories' that MFP gave me. If you're eating under what MFP gave you, the you may want to eat more but healthy filling foods. Fruits, veggies, yogurt, etc. that may help you feel better.

I just read in a book that people do often feel like that for the first week or so at a new calorie level. So I think it's normal. Re-address your calories if you're going under MFP recs or if the symptoms persist.