I know the first few weeks are the hardest.

[Jae0]

But blah!

I've technically only been on my new workout and food plan for a week (first time ever using weights), and i'm still adjusting my diet (finally cut out every juice except OJ, its mostly water and skim milk now).

I know I should focus on my accomplishments right now and not so much on my scale.

But I feel like I should be making more progress on the scale.
I know its bad to obsess over it. But I figured I could lose 1 or 2lbs a week easy. I only 'officially' count my weight every Friday, and last friday showed a 3lb weight loss. But this whole week I havent lost any. I've stayed within a few ounces of 232.

Since I workout about 2 hours a day, i'll assume its my diet thats the problem. I usually eat some cereal, fruit, or oatmeal for breakfast. Then I workout for an hour. When I get home I have a tuna sandwich or turkey and cheese with some chips (mmm still fighting my battle with those). Then when my husband gets home, we go back to the gym for another hour.
Dinner is anything from turkey tacos, turkey burgers, baked chicken, pigs in a blanket, so on. I think dinner is the hardest meal for me to control because i'm making food for 3 people and not just me.

I'm trying to drink about a gallon of water a day and atleast one glass of skim milk. My only complaint about getting that much water is that i'm running to the bathroom a whole lot more than I used to.

I keep trying to tell myself that this first month is a time for adjustments and getting used to things and I should relax and calm down. But its hard.

I'm thinking about having my husband hide the scale.

 

[KaraCooks]

First of all, yeah, definitely readjust your expectations as far as results. And keep in mind that some people *don't* lose steadily at 1-2 lbs a week. I don't. If I eat perfectly on plan for 6 weeks, I might lose weight 3 of those weeks. It doesn't mean that I'm not losing or reshaping my body, but it means that for some reason my body is one of those that doesn't have that long lovely diagonal line down the scale. I lose in fits and chunks ... nothing for 2 weeks and then *boom* suddenly the scale is 4lbs down.

Also, even though you've cut out juices and so forth are you tracking your calories? Until you really know how much you're eating, you're likely to still be eating too much - especially if you're still eating chips and things like that. I'm not saying you have to cut out everything at once ... I still eat chips once in a while with lunch, but I know when I do I REALLY have to cut back on dinner - because even a small serving of chips is around 300 calories.

I really do suspect that might be part of why you're not seeing super fast results, despite the hours at the gym. I know it's really easy for me to underestimate what I eat unless I am meticulous about measuring and documenting.