Maybe you should stop looking at the scales and just do the best you can?

It seems you are truly terrified of the scale and it's ability to NOT MOVE. You just have to remember and BELIEVE that every move you make, every simple carb you pass up, is helping you on the way.

It may come off fast. It might not. Just do what you can and stop fretting about the things you can't change.

Maybe skip getting the digital scale for now and instead, buy yourself some fruit, a bit every day, if it makes you feel better. There are free to use scales everywhere. Heck, I'm sure someone you know might even have one they could give you.

I see in several posts, a lot of worry about not dropping weight fast enough.... stop stressing and do the best you can. It's better than doing nothing and definitely better than gaining and giving up.

If you are working out really hard your calories may actually be too low for weight loss. Is there some place at school you could weigh and safe the money from the scale?

Read this post:
http://www.roseyrebecca.com/2010/10/...h-weight-loss/

You have got to have patience. Weight is not going to fall off you. If the daily weighins are making you crazy, stop them.

Just assume you might only drop half a pound a week. And assume that some weeks you might gain. But the changes you are making in terms of eating healthy and exercising will stay with you for life.

Up your calories, under 1200 isn't healthy, especially if you are working out like crazy. But again, don't start freaking out on day 3 of 1400 calories if they scale hasn't dropped 3 pounds.

Just settle in. Pretend you are on a plane flight around the world. You've just taken off. If you start freaking out now because you aren't in New Zealand or New York or even past your state line you're going to be in a straight jacket and jumping out the door.

Relax.

Assuming you are counting your calories appropriately (ie measuring, weighing, being religious about not tasting things or at least adding that in), then it's just a time factor.

There is no finish line! ~ as someone who has maintained for 7 years except a brief break to have a baby, I can really say this. You have to eat like this forever, or it will come back.

So as seagirl says, sit back and enjoy the flight, it's going to be a very long one.

I agree to up the calories to 1400 a day, it sounds like your meals are high carb so I'd do your best to get more veggies and protein in. You say your mom does the grocery shopping- can you go with her and stick some veggies in the cart? Will she actually pull them out or something?

I'd stay from saltine crackers- salt is not your friend when you are trying to lose weight

Thanks, it looks like you are on the right path as well We all have those days where we get frustrated, angry, upset, but we stay on path and it all works out in the end

IMm going to add a different perspective..... if you ARENT LOSING FAT YOU ARENT IN A CALORIC DEFICIT

its as simple as that.... id be willing to bet you are eating a lot more than you realize (this is not an insult~ 99.99999% of do the same thing) youmight be over estimating your eyeballed portions...if you buy ANYTHING at schookl you really cant know for sure how many cals are in it, and it sounds like your momns meal are calorific! are you MEASURING all your food? Even bought from schhool? Ar eyou EYEBALLING some of it? Or are you WEIGHING yoou food, all of it, , on a digital scale..... this last method will bring you closest to the truth. I personally dont put anything in my mouth that i cant weigh on my scale first...... including lettuce....... im smaller than you, yes, but the original point remains the same...... if you arent losing you arent in a deficit, and the firts place to tlook is at the accuracy of your food counting and intake.... be honest, at least with your self!

What the poster before me said was true, however, as you already mentioned you measure and weigh everything im going to add this:

youve only been at this a week you said, a pound of fat is 3500 calories so eating at a deficiate works, but it takes time. Also i can think of 2 things that you mentioned that would cause water retention, making water weight replace whatever youve managed to lose in fat so far, sodium, the saltines and if your mom adds salt to the rice, beans and meat.

The second thing is, as odd as it sounds, working out. Your muscles use alot of water while they repair themselves, this means that when you start a new workout or add more weight or reps or whatnot they will start storing water, just keep drinking alot of water and it will eventually flush itself out and often cause a small 'woosh' on the scale.

As long as you are deficit you WILL lose. Sometimes it just takes longer to show on a scale