2nd day on MyFitnessPal....does it get easier?

Hi, all! I'm Mary, gonna be 41 in a few weeks, would love to lose 45 pounds, and am living in Missouri. I started this two days ago and have not been within my calories yet, but I figure I will have to get used to the idea of eating less, right??

How long did it take you to get on board with the program and start staying within your calorie range the majority of the time? Any advice?

Thanks.

Hello,
I began beginning of May. I did not lose much at first, but I was looking and feeling better with each passing week. That got me hooked. It takes a bit to adjust to all the newness. Your body and hormones adjust to the proper amount of calories, especially if you'd been eating too much, as I was, and too many carbs/sugar.

Everything is new....don't get frustrated or anxious. Just do the best you know to do, and keep adjusting until you get the results you seek. EVERYBODY learns as they go, and you reap all kinds of benefits...NSV's as we like to call them (Non Scale Victories). When you have questions, there are the forums and the friends you make along the way. It is totally fun and hard work.

I was just realizing that I have finally found my own weight loss zone. I have been trying to lose a pound per week, and I have been doing that!!! In the last 4 weeks, I have lost at least 5 pounds! I love the friends I have made, the feeling of self control and fitness i've gained, and more. Bottom line, have fun, get fit!

:)MinMin

Oh and I know my ticker says "0" but I gained about 20 lbs from when I first made this to when I actually started to use it (a 4 month difference). Since I started back up with this three weeks about I have lost about 8 lbs so far. It won't show up on my ticker until I get back to my previous weight- grrr lol.

Best to take the first week to just look at what you are eating now, then start planning for changes, look at other diaries, read a bit, start planning some exercise time (a walk is absolutely a good start if you have been pretty sedentary). Don't try to "kill it" right off, seems to me most folks I've see really get frustrated hit it hard, didn't get instant results and got angry. Patience is the key, you didn't get fat overnight it isn't going ot "melt off". Hard work, patience, and finding what works for you will get it done. If you already lead a busy life then be sure you have a grip on BMR, TDEE, and where you want to fall in that area. Also, measure, I think that was my biggest mistake, I didn't measure back at the beginning, if I had I think I would have been happier when I hit plateaus since that was usually when I would drop a size. Surround yourself with friends on the same track at first. Later you can add folks on other trains of thought and not get distracted by them, just support their journeys. Research nutrition, no fad diets, just eating healthy, watch the junk food, restaurant food, and sodium, I think extreme sodium is one of the biggest hidden pitfalls I've seen.
Anyway there's some ideas.

I hit about the third day after staying under 1200 calories, and then I just didn't feel compelled to eat.
The first three, I couldn't even keep my mind off food.
But now after a week I'm kind of not bothered.
I look forward to my dinner and try not to eat at all before it.
So then I can have a little munchy in the evening at about 10 or 11pm because I'll only have eaten 2/3rds of the days calories by then.
There's something about daylight, makes me feel like crap.

1. Yes it gets easier. The first few days of eating under calories stink. I was hungry all day. But now only a week later I am rarely hungry because my body is used to the new intake.

2. When I started couting calories and watching what I ate, before MFP, I went WEEKS, maybe even a couple months, of ONLY tracking. Noticing my habits. Considering what I could cut out. I did a lot of learning in that time. Eventually decided to jump in with both feet to under 2000 calories and thats where my first point happend.