FRUSTRATED!!!!!

Your diary is private so we can't analyze your food.

It could be a few things but the main thing....TIME!

You've only been really at it for 2 weeks and you've added a lot of exercise. Your body is adjusting.

My advice:
Remove as much processed food from your diet
Drink more water (your weight divided by 2 gives you the MINIMUM daily oz intake)
Lower your sodium intake
Take measurements
Take pictures
and
Give it time

Best of luck

Yes! Take before and after pictures! Sometimes the scale doesn't show the true results about your accomplishments, and a photo will

Last summer I spent about 3 months at the same weight but getting thinner by the tape measure and I assumed I must be gaining lean body mass (muscle) at about the same rate I was losing fat. Since getting my new aria wifi scale at christmas I have weighed myself every morning. My weight has stayed pretty much the same - it cycles up and down every 2-3 days going down to 66.1kg and then back up to 67kg then back down. However, three weeks ago when I was 67kg, that was split at 43.6 kg of lean and 23.5kg of fat. Today, at 67kg that was split at 45.5kg of lean and 21.6kg of fat. So in the past 3 weeks, although my weight has stayed the same, I have lost 2kg of fat! That's 4 pounds. There you go! Proof that the weight alone is a poor indicator of fat loss. I am gaining lean muscle and losing fat at about exactly the same rate. But as lean muscle takes up less space, pound for pound, then I am getting thinner. Maybe consider that aspect too.

With that amount of exercise, you are most likely retaining water. Being a woman, this is going to happen more than you would like. But notice that the majority of people who get frustrated over not losing anything are women?

I went through this, too, and I did a lot of research to figure out what was going on. Bottom line is, if you maintain a caloric deficit, you will lose weight. During the journey, however, you retain fluids for one of a dozen reasons, and it will show up as a gain on the scale.

This article explains it rather well (scroll about halfway down the page to the header, "Water Balance"):

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/the-energy-balance-equation.html

If you know you are eating correctly and exercising enough to create an appropriate deficit, then this is more than likely what is going on. It would be nice to lose in a linear fashion, but sadly this does not happen for the majority of women.

I have also found the following article interesting as well. It talks about how your loss appears to stall and then suddenly "woosh."

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/of-whooshes-and-squishy-fat.html

If you can't take the scale number with a grain of salt, stop weighing every day. You don't gain 2 pounds of fat in one day, but you can gain far more than that in water.

Have you found a lifestyle and eating plan that you can do forever? If you have, then it won't matter so much what the scale says. Focus on achieving excellent health and then the weight will look after itself. Over TIME.

Every single time I do the 30DS I gain in the beginning. Every. Single. Time.

The most I've lost is 3 lbs throughout the program but you can totally see a difference in inches. Check out my picture below to see how big only 3lbs can be

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/photos/view/9992654

i've been busting my bum for the last two months and the scale pretty much goes up and down two pounds over and over and over and over and over.

If you are doing the right things, you will see the right results. Don't let the scale dictate what your progress is.

keep your measurements. notice your increased strength, endurance, agility. Notice that you FEEL better. Make sure you are eating properly (because diet really does make a difference)....

enjoy the process and don't stress.

It's true that stress makes your body hold onto weight.
(do i need to cite this, or can people let me say something I know from years here without having to google it???)

Your diary is private so we can't analyze your food.

It could be a few things but the main thing....TIME!

You've only been really at it for 2 weeks and you've added a lot of exercise. Your body is adjusting.

My advice:
Remove as much processed food from your diet
Drink more water (your weight divided by 2 gives you the MINIMUM daily oz intake)
Lower your sodium intake
Take measurements
Take pictures
and
Give it time

Best of luck

Yep...this ^

I would also suggest that you up your cardio. 10-20 mins is short. If you have more time, try to get to 30 mins and see if that makes a difference.

I go up and down all the time but I don't give up but it's hard!

You're probably building muscle which weighs more than fat. A good test on how you're progressing is in how your clothes are fitting. Hang in there!

Sorry but you don't build muscle while on a calorie deficit... especially women. For a woman to build muscle she needs to be lifting heavy, eating maintaince or above and even at that the best gain after the beginner gain would be 0.5lb a month.

To the OP, if you aren't the biggest fan of cardio stop doing it besides once or twice a week. Lift heavy weights! 30DS is not a lifting program, it is actually a cardio routine. Do that a few times a week and than lift heavy every other day. In order to have maximum progress from lifting heavy weights you do need to eat close to maintance if not at it or above. Do that for a few weeks than drop down and do cardio for a few weeks... do the cycles and you will build muscle and cut fat if you do it correctly. Should you do this make sure to increase your protein. Lots of protein will help your body build muscle along with lifting heavy and increasing food intake.

Also, add sodium to track in your diary. You seem to eat a decent amount of processed foods and you will probably notice once you start tracking it that you are eating too much sodium. Sodium willl cause your body to retain water. Not sure if you just aren't tracking it all but if you are drink more water as well. Water helps flush the water out of your body.