I've been following this for 2 weeks now and not lost a sing

Are you exercising and eating those calories burned during exercise? That could be a reason.... Based upon the info you put into the site...what is your calorie number for the day? Maybe you are eating too much sodium?? There are many different things that could come into play.

two weeks is not nearly enough time to begin feeling disheartened and frustrated. We all want the weight to come off fast but sometimes the key is patience and it's ALWAYS consistency. Make sure you use all avail categories to monitor other things such as sodium, fiber, etc. Weight loss is about more than just calorie counting. (you can eat a mcdonald's hamburger and fry and stay under calorie goal if that's all you eat all day) You have to find the right balance in diet and exercise and sometimes it takes more than one try to get there. You can do....just hang in there. How is your exercise routine? Do you do something regularly to get your heart rate up and make you sweat? this will always help bump up the weight loss a notch when it seems slow. Re-evaluate your eating habits and try to find the missing piece. you may just need to be a lil more patient with yourself. Hang in there.....

I am having the same trouble. I found this quote and went "aa ha".. Maybe helpful to you maybe not.. but here it is..

"You cannot override the laws of thermodynamics and
energy balance. You must be in a calorie deficit to burn
fat. This will force your body to use stored body fat to
make up for the energy deficit.
There are 3500 calories in a pound of stored body fat. If
you create a 3500-calorie deficit in a week through diet,
exercise or a combination of both, you will lose one
pound of bodyweight." ~ Adam Waters/Tom Venuto

I am going to calculate what my caloric deficit has been in the past 2 weeks and see if I have had at least 3,500.... I am anxious to see what I come up with..

Yeah i have been on here for probably about a month and havent lost anything, at first i actually gained, and now i am dropping back down to where i started.

BUT i know what i am NOT doing... i am always under my calories, and for excerise i do alot of walking. Even though i am under my calories i know that the foods i am eating are not 100% the best choices. So maybe it isnt the fact you are under the calories but maybe what you are eating...

I dont know but dont get frustrated

no problems here ... but i advise watch your sugar and sodium you will see great results.

Hi -- I totally understand your frustration as I went through some of the same things. I echo all of the responses that are out there as they are great suggestions -- one of the things I'd like you to check is also your sugar intake. This is what did it for me as I would do well on calories, proteins, fat, etc. I was running and exercising MASSIVE amounts and STILL staying at the same weight. Out of frustration I saw a personal trainer a few months ago, she looked at my foods (and recommended this site to start tracking), altered my sugar intake, and a few years of frustration are now down the drain.

Each person is different and responds differently to things but of course, check out your sugar intake, replace at least 50% of what you burn in exercise with good foods/snacks (not all afterward at one time, planned throughout the day of course), and get in as much water as you can.

The support here is great -- just stick with it. YOU can do this!!

If you were losing before and now you aren't, then most likely you were operating at a calorie deficit before and now you aren't. So think about what is different now than before. Are you eating more? Exercising less? Drinking less water? Consuming less protein? More sugar?

Also, I think it's important not to take the numbers any online program spits out as gospel. They are just estimates and are based on averages based on the numbers you input. They may be spot on for you, but they may be way off.

When I first started losing, the online sites were telling me to eat WAY more calories than I should. They had me eating more calories than I was eating before I started watching my intake! So clearly that was wrong. I think they were over-estimating my BMR which was below average due to a years of yo-yo dieting. I know they were over-estimating my calories burned during exercise because I had a HRM that was giving me more accurate numbers.

But, as I got fitter and thinner, the problem eventually flipped over the other way. Now the online programs tell me that I need to eat way less calories than I need to in order to maintain. If I listened to MFP, I'd be skin and bones!

Now the problem is that they under-estimate my BMR because they assume that, as an older person, I have a slow metabolism and not as much muscle mass when actually it's now faster than average and I have a lot of muscles. I also now burn more in exercise than MFP estimates because my VO2Max is higher than average due to being more fit.

What you might want to do is adjust your age and / or activity levels in MFP so they give you the numbers you were using before and then go from there adjusting up and down until you are losing the amount of weight you want to lose.