Struggling to know where to start.

[Someonesayroadtrip]

So I'm obese and need to shift some weight. I thought to myself, sure this is easy enough, so I downloaded the my fitnesses pal and started walking with some yoga. I've been really strict with myself and watched loads of YouTube videos and googled to try and figure out what's best, but I'm finding all the information very contradictory.

So I have been on my "weight loss journey" for 10 days or do. I lost 1.5kgs quite quickly the forest few days and now it's not moving. I lost some weight on my breast and arms but gained some on my thighs 🙈

I have been calorie counting and eating between 1000-1200 calories per day. So it's very frustrating that I'm not losing quicker especially this early on. Been upping my water intake, trying to stay very active, and taking vitamins etc, making sure my veg intake is 2/3 of my diet etc.

I'm not into things like weight watchers or diet fads, I've done juice fast before and I did lose a lot and maintain it for awhile but it's just a lot of work and I don't actually think it's the best long term.

Any advice or companionship on this journey would be welcome.

@Shedtheload

Agreed.

This in no way resembles

'You body needs enough calories to begin to lose', which is potentially very misleading to a beginner like OP, and that's why I called it out.

Well I have lost 5kgs since I wrote this. Which makes a total of around about 10kgs. Doing a mix of everything and still keeping my calories low. I do think it's going to get a lot harder as I lose more though and I'll need to rethink things a bit more.

@Someonesayroadtrip. This video is really interesting - shows up the flaw in the whole 'eat less/move more' or 'calories out must exceed calories in' approach.

It also uses some of the data from The Biggest Loser that @Shedtheload references.