Getting discouraged

julimclaughlin133

So the past two weeks I haven’t lost anything I actually gained weight.. I’ve been eating my points correctly I eat healthy and I work out 4 times a week .. I’m wondering if I should lower my calorie count and work out more.. I am 7 months post partum and I know it going to be harder for me at the moment but I need hope this will get better

MamaBear5445

Are you nursing? For some women it is very difficult to lose weight while nursing. Keep your calories up when nursing and just exercise.

AnnPT77

It's too soon to worry about this!

Two weeks really isn't long enough to know - isn't enough to get a fair average. That's especially true if you increased exercise or radically changed the foods you eat (more fiber or something). Follow a new regimen for at least 4-6 weeks (whole menstrual cycles if that applies) before you evaluate it based on average weekly results.

Bodies are weird. Our bodies can be up to 60%+ water. A little bit of water retention shift, and "poof" easily two pounds or more weight change from one day to the next. Water fluctuations are part of how a healthy body stays healthy: We best let it do that, because it knows what it's doing.

Also, if we change our eating, that can not only affect water retention, but also the weight of digestive contents on their way to being waste. Neither of those things are body fat, so they're not worth worrying about.

After 4-6 weeks, there's been enough time to see a trend in weight over the whole time.

May I suggest you read this thread, especially the article linked in the first post?

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10683010/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-fluctuations/p1

It will explain why short-term results on the scale may not be the same thing as fat loss . . . which is what we really want, right? It's reassuring to understand why
scale weight changes by multiple pounds ever day, while fat loss happens in much smaller-magnitude steps, hiding in the background.

You can do this, keep up the effort, and you'll soon have the personal experience data you need in order to adjust goals, if necessary. Wishing you success!

kshama2001

If the exercise is new you are likely retaining water from that. Other reasons: