Starting my Journey and already getting discouraged
35M currently 268lbs which is the heaviest I have ever been.
I decided to do something about it and I started going to the gym on my lunch breaks. 4 days a week 25 minutes of cardio (typically at 3 incline and 3.0 mph). I try to get in some additional 20 minutes of free weights or machines to not really build muscle but more to not lose any and help strengthen my body.
I have an app that tracks all my protein, carbs, calories, fat, and fiber. I looked up a BMI calculator and did all of that and found I could do 2000 calories a day and be in a deficit and that should get me 1-2 lbs a week of weight loss. Most days I do between 1500-1800 calorie intake which is below my 2000 deficit and the 3400 calories I was told was what I needed to consume to keep my body the same.
It’s been almost a week of doing this, and I weighed myself and lost nothing. Still have a today and tomorrow with weight loss in Thursday but I have literally lost nothing. And now I want to give up cause I expected even a tiny amount of difference.
Maybe my expectations are too high. But it really hit hard when I stepped on the scale and so no change. So now I’m just depressed. 😔 but I’m still not giving up I just don’t know how to get passed this depression