I need help please!!!

0.4 lbs could easily be water weight. When you increase your activity levels, the body will hold on to a little extra water for a bit, to help your muscles recover.

Keep drinking your water and I'm sure it will come off quickly. Make sure you're compensating your calories for the exercise you are doing so your body doesn't go into starvation mode.

While you can sometimes see progress within a week, you need to do something for at least a month in order to judge its effectiveness.

Eliminate sugar and grains from your diet, also referred to as south beach diet, primal diet, paleo diet, I follow this way of eating and I enjoy it. Try it for one week and I think you might.

1. first off, despite one of the comments, you did not gain muscle after one week of exercise. its extremely hard to add muscle and, unless you're lifting heavy weights and eating at a surplus, chances are you did not gain muscle.

2. second, as many folks have said, water retention is likely the culprit. Its possible for retained water to cause your weight to fluctuate by as much as 5 pounds...and oftentimes, 2 pounds of water retention is not uncommon. don't sweat 0.4 "scale gain".

3. if you open your diary to the public, folks can give you some advice about your food choices. but, if you stick with lean protein, healthy fats and carbs with a low glycemic index value, drink 12-16 cups of water, you'll generally do fine.

This. Also don't sweat anything from week to week as others have said water retention can cause some serious swings. Commit to your program for at least a month before comparing back to you starting numbers.

Its the added exercise water retention.

A few weeks ago I had a week off work so i thought I would try harder in the gym and I ate in my calories, did a spin class every day, some days did two gym classes, or weight, end of the week lost nothing. About 2 weeks after that, after I was working out LESS and my body had recovered and I had let go of some of the water, I look much Leaner.

Always happens to me especially my legs, soggy with water until I recover.

I need advice i eat 1200 calories and i exercise my clothes are getting looser but the scales says i haven't lost any weight its been 3 weeks

I don't have any answers, I have the same problem. I know everyone says the number on the scale doesn't matter as much as how you feel and inches lost. Just wanted you to know you're not alone.

You're weighing yourself once a week, right? Even if you're losing weight, your daily weight fluctuates so much that you may just have been unlucky. Maybe last Monday you had less water weight than average, and today you had more.

Here's a suggestion for getting a better sense of how things are going: weigh yourself every day at the same time, and calculate an exponentially smoothed weighted average of your measurements. (You don't have to do it yourself, there are websites that will do it.)

As long as your daily weights are mostly below the average, you are losing weight, even if your weight one morning is 3 lbs. heavier than the previous day. Your daily fluctuations are almost all water weight; the average lets you identify the long-term trend behind it.

The chapter on "Signal and Noise" in John Walker's free online book "The Hacker's Diet" explains the math (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/). Walker's website lets you set up an account to track weight and calculate the average. Beeminder (www.beeminder.com) also lets you do that; the average is the "skinny purple line" in a Beeminder weight loss graph (you can see mine at https://www.beeminder.com/brianogilvie/goals/weigh). My biggest daily gain was a whopping 2.6 lbs.! But it was gone in a couple of days.

Some people find that daily weighing is too psychologically distressing or triggers obsession, but for the rest of us, it can be useful, even though it flies in the face of what most weight loss books recommend. It also can help when you reach your goal and need to maintain: if most of your daily weights are above the average, then you're slowly putting on weight and you can nip the gain in the bud, before you've regained a substantial amount.