please help...i don't get it

okay, so i have changed my diet and activities completely. in the past, i would eat fast food for dinner EVERY DAY (i know its gross, but im NOT exaggerating), and i never exercised. but since the beginning of summer i have not eaten any fast food, i have been eating WAYYY healthier, and im following the diet plan of eating small meals throughout the day. then for exercise i have been working out 45 minutes a day on an exercise bike burning about 350 calories, along with cleaning the house, and walking to places rather than having my mom drive me.

what i dont understand is why i havent lost any weight? i havent even lost ONE POUND, and i have been working so hard for the last two months. i just dont get it. im eating healthier, exercising, and im trying very hard, but im not getting any results. my mom keeps telling me to be patient and that the weight wont just come right off right away, but i dont think that two months of hard work is "right away". i think its pretty reasonable to expect to have lost at least one pound in two months.

please help me figure out what im doing wrong, im sick of working so hard and not getting any results and feeling like im never going to lose the weight.

what are your stats? how are you trying to lose weight?

im 15 and im 5'2 and im trying to lose like 30 pounds

basically im trying to lose weight by eating healthy and exercising? is there something more i should do?

Original Post by thisbrokencitysky:

im 15 and im 5'2 and im trying to lose like 30 pounds

basically im trying to lose weight by eating healthy and exercising? is there something more i should do?

I'm gonna hold off on telling you that you're undereating until you tell me your weight & your daily caloric intake.

im 160 and i eat around 1200 calories a day

Original Post by thisbrokencitysky:

im 160 and i eat around 1200 calories a day

It's most likely you are in "starvation mode" or in a situation where many teens trying to lose weight and sometimes adults encounter when trying to eat so little; when you eat too much of a deficit which you probably are (~1000 deficit). When you feed your body too little and your body goes into shock and it starts thinking, "Woah woah woah! Stop processing all these calories and burning the fat! We're going into a famine or something, store all the fat you can to survive!" Your body does the opposite of what you want to do, it hangs onto every little calorie you have and it doesn't help you one bit trying to lose weight. Your body has adjusted your metabolism and so used to what you have been eating it just wants every little calorie to keep you alive and that's not good at all and won't be helping your weight loss. It's actually hindering it.

What I'd suggest you to do is search around for a TEEN calculator for your daily calories and set a deficit that is healthy (~500 calories). Slowly increase to the desired number, and you will see some pounds gaining, do not worry about these. These will go away soon enough, and you will then see the pounds starting to drop off and make sure you lose them slowly and steadily. If you lose them too fast you might just make them right back. Eat a healthy amount, eat good and you will be much more energized than before of eating 1200 calories (you will see the huge  difference) and doing your body good. 

:] Have a nice day.

jester602 pretty much covered it.

But I'm going to add to it anyway. Eating more calories from what you're eating right now won't hurt you, incase you're wondering. So don't worry about going over 1200. Someone told me once that the metabolism is like a fire: if you feed it too much wood, there's not enough fire to burn it. If you feed it too little wood, the fire will run out of fuel. What you want is the right amount of fuel for your metabolism so it starts becoming burnin' up a lot more wood, and works in your favor to help you lose weight. Right now 1200 is the *minimum* for older adults, not for a growing teen such as yourself.

Here is the accurate calculator you should use to figure out your calorie needs.

G'luck darlin'!

I started eating healthy/working out in January, and only lost 3lbs by April. Then from May to June I lost another 2 pounds. Then all of a sudden in July I lost 6lbs. Like Magic, poof!

The only thing I changed was that I was stricter with my diet (no cheat days, eating strictly between 1200-1400 calories, I try and zig zag to keep my metabolism up), and I also got a trainer one a week for 30 min. to show me how to lift correctly. Apparently I had been doing it wrong, and ever since then I've been seeing better results.

So don't give up! The same thing happened to me!