Getting discouraged...... :( Please help

xoalyssaox, Good for you for following the plan and exercising every day....... I have found it most important to stick with it when you are most discouraged. We all have those days! Do you feel better since starting your exercise program? I hope so! Also, good for you for going to the Dr. baseline bloodwork is so important. I hope you see results soon, hang in there! :flowerforyou:

Please don't be discouraged for not having lost anything yet, you've only given your body 7 days to get used to the new things you're introducing to it. This is a lifestyle change for you. It is not about starving yourself thin or exercising every day until you see results. If it is about that, then you'll easily get tired of this routine and surely go back to what got you here. Don't think of this as a "diet"... you should not feel deprived of things you love, just enjoy them in moderation. Instead of telling yourself you can't have any pizza, try telling yourself you can have 1 piece then get up and move your body by going for a walk or doing some light housework something to get your mind off of having another slice of pizza. Sometimes you have to start by cutting only a few calories, and working out in moderation. Remind yourself that the weight didn't appear in 7 days, so it can't be expected to disappear in 7 days:-) Good luck to you. This site is a tremendous help and a great source of support.

Allow me to cite from the classics:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/777-why-is-starvation-mode-so-bad

and there's more to choose from:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/23912-links-in-mfp-you-want-to-read-again-and-again?hl="you+want+to+read+again+and+again"&page=1#posts-217854

I suggest you don't compare yourself with others - everyone's different. Why get discouraged? Look into the future: you can become toned and healthier or you can always find someone who looks better (on the outside). You can also give it all up. What do you want your future to look like?

Good luck and stay focused! :flowerforyou:

Go get the tape and take some measurements !

If you haven't been very active in the past months or years, and are now doing strenght training, you might be developping muscles at the same pace your are losing fat. And that's good news ! because muscle burns fat

For about a month when I started exercising, the number on the scale didn't change AT ALL but I knew I was getting "tighter".

Keep going ! You can do it !

You're going to do fine. It is SO disappointing when you don't see those numbers change. But it has only been seven days. Don't compare your weight loss to your friends. Everyone is different (seriously) and some bodies lose weight quicker than others. Working out and eating right has never caused anyone to gain weight, so stick with it!!! The results will come.

If I recall correclty, I didn't lose anything my first couple of weeks, and was shocked when I went to weigh-in. Then I took inventory of everything I was doing, logged everything faithfully, started eating healthier foods, started drinking more water...then the weight started coming off for me.

Follow MFP, log everything faithfully and honestly, eat your calories + your exercise calories, and if you don't see any results in a month, see your doctor again.

When I first joined 2 weeks ago, I saw a post from someone (I apologize to whomever it was - can't remember!). Anyway, they were hard at it for 3 whole months before losing weight! I don't think I'd have made it. I'd have said to heck with it, and plowed my way through a bag of consolation potato chips.

Anyway, it's like one day it just let loose and she went on to lose a lot of weight, and is still losing, if I remember correctly.

I'm not saying it will take you 3 months - I think she was pretty rare. But I see a lot of posts from people who say it took them a coupld of weeks for the weight to start coming off. Here's my theory: they always say you lose a lot of weight at the beginning, but it's water weight. It could be that your water weight was already at a good spot, and you don't need to lose a lot of that. So you're skipping that whole phase and heading right into the true blue weight loss phase, which is slower, but is what you ultimately want to do.

I've lost 3 pounds in 2 weeks, which doesn't seem like a lot, but I have to remind myself that it sure beats the heck out of gaining 3 pounds in 2 weeks!

Sounds like you're doing splendid, though!

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE!!!!!!!!

I weighed myself this morning on the same scale I weighed myself on day 1. (Yesterday weighed on a diff scale), and the one from today which is the one I originally weighed myself last week, says I lost 4 pounds I AM SOOO excited!! I was so happy I went out and worked out at the gym for an hour and a half!!! YAYAYYAYA

Good old scales....Sooo not as reliable as a tape measure...When it comes to weigh ins my advice is no more than 1x time per week, always in same clothing-I prefer underwear only--always same time of day, always similar tummy contents--I prefer sunday afternoon/evening after my workout but before eating dinner. I also only trust my home scale--a pretty nice digital scale that alwyas gives the same reading which I bought to replace my old scale that gave different readings every time I stepped on it.

You'll go nutz if you weigh in more often than 1x per week. I have no logical explanation for this....I workout 7 days a week. 1hr cardio M-F and 1-2 hrs cardio Sat -Sun. I noticed a weird pattern...Pretty consistently I've found that if I weigh in Friday evening my weight is very close (w/in 1/2 lb) to the last sundays weight. But come Sunday I'll be at a loss for the week of 1.5-2lbs..I have yet to figure out why this happens but it's enough to keep me away from daily weigh-ins.

Agree. Same scale and once a week... it takes your body time to process the food you're giving it and the exercise you're doing to burn those calories.

Some people weigh in daily (I used to) but that can be so frustrating and illogical... once a week definitely works the best!

For myself, I have noticed that when my mental view of myself is not in alignment with my fit self, my body will not drop a pound regardless of my efforts. I now include meditations where I visualize and feel myself at my goal fitness level and weight. HTH.