Help! I cannot lose any weight!?

I'm a 24 year old female, 5'1" who has been eating unhealthy my entire life, not monitoring anything I put in my body. Lots of soda, LOTS of fast food, pizza, big portions, etc. I decided to make a change with changing my eating. I started doing this at 251.5 pounds. I started doing a 1,200 calorie/day diet. Lots of fruit, veggies, leafy greens, water, FIBER, good breakfast every morning, no greasy/fatty/fried foods, yogurt, grilled chicken, started eating organically as well, NO soda and NO red meat, which was pretty much a part of my daily diet before. Those changes were HUGE for me.



In the first 7 days I dropped 7.5 pounds and was ecstatic! I now weighed 244 pounds. I then looked up this calorie intake calculator. It said, for my weight, I would need to eat 2268 calories a day to maintain it, but 1361 for extreme weight loss. A lot of people told me that I should eat the 1361, because 1200 was too little. I didn't listen. I kept doing 1200, doing awesome the whole next week every timetime I weighed myself I was 244.5. By the weekly weigh-in, I was still 244.5 so there was a 1/2 pound gain that week. Discouraging.



Now I'm on my 3rd week. I have not started an exercise regime yet, but will very soon. I assumed just dietary changes alone would take some weight off. I started the 3rd week doing the 1361 calories like every said, thinking maybe my body was starving itself. I know you aren't supposed to, but I weigh myself every morning JUST to see, cus the weight loss encourages me to continue. And every morning I have been EXACTLY 244.5. No change in almost like 2 weeks! I feel like I'm doing all this healthy eating for NOTHING. You'd think someone of my size, who had such horrible eating habits, who has changed them drastically...that the weight would just come off. I don't know what I'm doing wrong or could do better. BESIDES starting to exercise, what is my problem here? I've never had any willpower or determination before and cheated on my eating but it's been hard the past 3 weeks and I was so proud of myself for not giving into 1 temptation but I feel like I have so little to show for it.Help! I cannot lose any weight!?
Your problem is that you started off too extreme and expect miracles, and you know it. It's also easy to drop dramatically at first when you stop bad habits and then the weight loss will become more normal and slow. Most people give up at this stage, the dramatic drop is fun and makes them feel great and then they grow tired of it all when the "miracle" stops.



If the daily weight loss is what encourages you to continue, then you need to start by fixing that idea. Things don't work that way. You say that you are doing all this healthy eating for nothing... that's so wrong too. You need an attitude adjustment before you move on because this is part of the problem too. You are not Cinderella and a starvation diet will not magically turn you into a princess in a glittery dress over night. Get used to it.



Adjust your diet, you might need to go to 1500 calories or more for a while so that your body can get back in balance. Start to exercise, but take it easy if you are very much out of shape, you don't want pain and injuries to stop you in your tracks.



Focus on doing this all for other reasons than what you can see when you weigh yourself in the morning. Better health, better sleep, happier life, being able to do things that you can't at this point, that type of things should be your main goals.



If you insist on weighing yourself daily then make a chart where you add notes for each day about what you have done (exercise as well as daily activities and if it's "that" time of the month). It might seem pointless when your weight stands still or if you gain but there is much to learn from it and you can also see patterns.



As an example I can say that I always gain weight one week every month. Always. No matter how hard I work on it. Once I figured that out I feel better about it and I can focus on catching up with my weight loss the next week instead. Another thing that stands out is how I gain weight when I don't get enough sleep. Not sleeping enough makes me sluggish and I don't move around during my daily activities in the same way as when I'm fully rested.Help! I cannot lose any weight!?
Ok, firs of all your expecting weight to off very fast its not going to happen like that its going to take a lot of time. I wouldnt be weighing yourself everyday just see how you feel the number shouldn't matter. My mom always ate really healthy but about two years ago she dropped all sugars except for natural ones she dropped 13 pounds doing that alone. 7 pounds is a crazy number to drop that fast and its awesome but dont expect it to keep happening like that. The less unhealthy food you eats the more you wont crave it so that will get easier. drink a lot fo water stay active. good luck:)