Hey, seasoned folks! I was hoping to get a little advice or reassurance or both, whatever this situation calls for:
I started eating at or within 200 calories of a 1200 calorie budget (600+ below TDEE) 12 days ago, completely cold turkey. I've cut out bread/desserts/processed sugar/pasta and upped my veggies/lean protein/fruit intake. Usually I have a protein fruit smoothie for breakfast, salad for lunch with raw baby carrots as a snack, and some form of grilled chicken with roast veggies for dinner. No soda or coffee, just water! I'm pretty sedentary with an office job, but I try to walk around a bit during my lunch break and then walk from my office to my house every day (2 miles-ish?). I've just bought a food scale to start using. If I do go to the gym (a unicorn-rare occurence), I don't eat the calories back. My one cheat day so far had consisted of eating one big, cal-rich meal on a weekend and then straight not eating for the rest of the day. I log everything on MFP straightaway after meals and drinking water.
I am probably doing something horribly wrong. The scale has budged maaaaybe half a pound in the right direction since I've started about two weeks ago? It's also not an even decline; it goes up one day, down another. I'm hoping with the food scale I'll be able to better track the actual calories I've been consuming, but I feel like with a target budget of 1200, I should be losing more even if I'm going a bit over budget.
Do I need to be adding a better form of exercise? Is it just too early into the thing to be expecting steady results? I did just start my cycle - could that be contributing to the weight staying on? (Blame that pesky uterus for everything. >:( ) I'm also not starting with a lot of weight to lose to begin with (152 SW), maybe that's why? Is it that progress is going to be slow at the start and I'm being an impatient mess??
tldr I am painfully new and know nothing, and eating at 1200-1400 cals (600-400 under TDEE) doesn't seem to be giving me the results at the pace I'd like to see. HELP. D:
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