It's discouraging.

I have a spreadsheet that tracks the amount of calories consumed and the amount of calories burned for the month and I am at about -26000. If you go by the traditional 3000 calories = 1lb. math, that should give me an 8+ lb. loss.

I was so excited to jump into the program, I didn't take initial measurements. So this Sunday I'm going to take all the measurements before the 2nd month kicks in. Hopefully at the end of month 2 I'll see some changes on the scale and on the tape.

If you haven't taken measurements, let's go and take it now. Also if you gave not taken a before pic yet, it is time.
Do you have a BF% scale? It greatly help to actually see what is going on.

Scale by itself can be really discouraging. Lots of people gain a lot of water weight when they start strength training, because the muscle glucose stores fill up and hold onto water. It can take a couple of weeks, sometimes upto 2 months to get rid of that initial excess water , and that is when the real weight loss shows up.

I just finished week 1, and I am 3 lb heavier than when I started. However my scale shows water level % as well fat % , and I am definitely have much higher level water in my body now.

When I started I was 94 kg , with 42% BF. This means I had 39.5kg fat and 54.5 kg lean body mass prior starting. During this past week, the total weight was creeping up, and the BF% was dropping. Today the scale showed 95.5 kg with 40.2 % BF. Which means now I have 38.4 kg of fat and 57.1 kg of lean body mass. This means my LBM increased by 2.6 kg , which I know it is not true muscle gain just water retention in the muscles. I had much lower carb intake prior to the program, and upping carb plus strength training etc lead to significant water retention.

Anyway , lets see what happened to my fat: 39.5-38.4= lost 0.9 kg fat ( =2 lb) , hurray! If I just has basic scale, I would be mopping about gaining 3 lb weight. But there is no mopping here, for me losing 2 lb fat within a week is awesome. Plus it seems that my baby belly overhang is less droopy.

If you haven't taken measurements, let's go and take it now. Also if you gave not taken a before pic yet, it is time.
Do you have a BF% scale? It greatly help to actually see what is going on.

Scale by itself can be really discouraging. Lots of people gain a lot of water weight when they start strength training, because the muscle glucose stores fill up and hold onto water. It can take a couple of weeks, sometimes upto 2 months to get rid of that initial excess water , and that is when the real weight loss shows up.

I just finished week 1, and I am 3 lb heavier than when I started. However my scale shows water level % as well fat % , and I am definitely have much higher level water in my body now.

When I started I was 94 kg , with 42% BF. This means I had 39.5kg fat and 54.5 kg lean body mass prior starting. During this past week, the total weight was creeping up, and the BF% was dropping. Today the scale showed 95.5 kg with 40.2 % BF. Which means now I have 38.4 kg of fat and 57.1 kg of lean body mass. This means my LBM increased by 2.6 kg , which I know it is not true muscle gain just water retention in the muscles. I had much lower carb intake prior to the program, and upping carb plus strength training etc lead to significant water retention.

Anyway , lets see what happened to my fat: 39.5-38.4= lost 0.9 kg fat ( =2 lb) , hurray! If I just has basic scale, I would be mopping about gaining 3 lb weight. But there is no mopping here, for me losing 2 lb fat within a week is awesome. Plus it seems that my baby belly overhang is less droopy.

What kind of scale do you have?