Strength Training with no weight loss!!!

Is it possible you are overestimating calories burned from your workouts? Or, underestimating calories consumed?

I am going through the same thing. In the beginning I lost an average of 1-2 lbs. a week. This was so exciting for me and then after a ten lb. loss I decided to start with light weights (5 lb.) and working out 2-3 x weekly. I also included 2-3 wkly cardio, but last week oh wow I hit the scaled on to see an increase of 3 lbs. I was shocked because I don't eat back all of the calories because I don't know if the exercise calories burned is as stated. Some of these exercise calories per age and weight are unreal in 30 minutes I find it hard to believe that I exercised 423 calories off of 45 minutes of Zumba. So what I do is half the calorie amount or eat most of it "if I am hungry". Some of these comments on here say "eat the calories back" others say "no don't" but use 20% of TDEE. So I get real confused. I talked with a nurse today and she said it is "water weight" and to drink more water and in a couple of days I will see the scales go down. I pray so. So now I am adding more water and will wait this out for a few days and see. IF that is what it is and I pray it is I will repost my results. Hope we both drop!

Help! I am not sure what to do. I started with MFP in June and cut calories down to 1400, I workout 3x a week with strength training and cardio (I do eat my workout calories back). The problem is I am not losing any weight and it is the middle of august. I like lifting and strength training, I can see the definition in my legs and arms and now my weights are like childs play and I need to go buy heavier ones, but I am not dropping any pounds. I have lost only a half inch around my waist and hips and my pants are snug. They fit differently but they are still snug I am frustrated and don't know if I should quit lifting until I lose 20 pounds are keep trucking along??? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

So on a farm with that level of work - I sure hope you didn't select Sedentary as your MFP non-exercise level, because obviously you aren't.
Active would probably be right.

Then your 2 lb weekly weight loss.

Then log your lifting using MFP estimate. It may seem low calorie burn compared to cardio, but that is absolutely true, it is during the workout.
If done right, the repair burns more fat later.

And yes, that will end up you eating more. With your stats and given activity level outside exercise, you are seriously underfeeding for that amount of a workout.

First weight drop was probably half water, if not more, depending on how much sodium you ate less compared to normal. That's false weight loss.

And yes lifting will leave you hungry to a certain degree, not massive, but your body is trying to make great improvements and you aren't going to feed it enough to do so, rather forcing it to use fat.

But if you don't eat enough, you'll just force your system slower because now the gap is too great, and body is going to protect itself.

That will usually be seen by progress stopping after initial improvements. Bigger the deficit, faster the plateau. Some keep going for a good long while, slowly losing less and less, wondering why their 500 cal deficit is still not causing 1 lb weekly loss on average.