I started changing my eating habits two weeks ago, deciding to eat by a strict CICO diet based on what I've read online. I'm eating at a 500 calorie deficit and made a lot of changes to my diet: eating bread once or twice a week instead of every day, eliminating all drinks besides water and my morning coffee or tea, cutting out all fast food, avoiding added sugar, strict calorie counting, etc, etc. I'm also doing 20-30 minutes of cardio 6 days a week. I've had more energy and been really proud of the commitments I've made to weight loss, for the first time in my life it feels like I'm taking it really seriously.
I stepped on the scale this afternoon, knowing that just losing one pound would have made me happy (I'm 200 lbs and trying to lose 1-2 lbs a week), and nothing, no changes. I know I'm probably just being impatient or comparing myself to others, but when I looked online for solutions as to why I hadn't lost any weight, I saw all the rhetoric about how CICO doesn't actually work, it's all about insulin levels/metabolic rate and how basically nothing I do will really make a difference.
I know that can't be true because of all the wonderful success stories I've seen on this sub, but man, am I feeling down about it. I'm going to try making my calorie deficit bigger (going from 1600 a day to around 1400), as now I'm wondering if it was too small in the first place. I'm proud of the changes I've made but can't help but feel discouraged; just losing one pound would have at least let me know I'm doing something right, yanno?
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