Getting kind of frustrated..

When you first start, as you saw, you can lose alot of weight from your body flushing out. You didnt lose 8 pounds of fat that first week, much would have been plain water weight, nor did you gain 4 lbs of fat/muscle when you started to exercise.

When you start to exercise more intensefly the muscles will retain more water to help function/rebuild.



Once you are on a more routine regimin of exercise you will start to see the weight go down even with that extra H20 in the muscles.

Stay with it with the exercise and eating better and it will all start to even out

Are you weighing and measuring all of your foods and liquids?

Two weeks isn't enough to see results. The 8 pounds the first week was likely a lot of water weight lost, and the 4 pounds the second week was likely water your body is retaining to help your muscles repair themselves. This is typical when you first start working out. Consistency is key.

Also make sure you're tracking accurately, which means using a food scale to weigh your portions. The other day you logged a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's really unlikely that entry is accurate. There are too many variables, such as the brand of bread you used and how much and what brand of peanut butter and jelly you used. It's much more accurate to track and log ingredients separately. It's a pain when you first start, but you get used to it quickly.

If you're confident in your logging, this is probably just water retention due to implementing a new exercise routine. If so, the weight will come back off with a little time and patience.

Looking through your diary, I noticed the following:

-You're over your daily sodium most days. You could be retaining water
-You appear to be using measuring cups. I see a lot of items with 1 cup, 1/2 cup, 1 tbsp. I recommend weighing your food. 1 cup of rice can vary by a LOT of calories. Food scales are more precise.
-From April 20th- May 5th, you were over your daily calories 11 days. That's 11/16 days. You're over your calorie goal 68% of the time.

In general:
-One week to one week is not enough time to see if you're gaining OR losing.
-When you lost weight, did you adjust your daily calories? I recommend adjusting it every 5 lbs. It will substantially drop your daily calories as you lose weight

Nailed it

Did you think you'd lose 8lbs a week every week until you reached goal weight? Two weeks is nothing in the grand scheme of losing weight. You didn't gain it all in two weeks. Give the process time, and every one offered great advice as far as watching sodium and weighing food. Stick with it, results will come.

When you first start, as you saw, you can lose alot of weight from your body flushing out. You didnt lose 8 pounds of fat that first week, much would have been plain water weight, nor did you gain 4 lbs of fat/muscle when you started to exercise.

When you start to exercise more intensefly the muscles will retain more water to help function/rebuild.



Once you are on a more routine regimin of exercise you will start to see the weight go down even with that extra H20 in the muscles.

Stay with it with the exercise and eating better and it will all start to even out

^^ THIS!!

In general:
-One week to one week is not enough time to see if you're gaining OR losing.

This is exactly why I normally try to lose weight/ eat right/ exercise FIRST on my own (not using MFP) for at least 10 days. Then, I start (again) back on MFP. I hate it when I see the initial loss (5 lbs) and the min I see the 1lb weight "gain" or whatever, I get anxious!

DUMP THE SCALE. The fluctuations I used to see would literally piss me off after working so hard to eat healthy and exercise. I'd think I did great until I stepped on the scale only to see the numbers stay the same or worse-- go up. I blamed it on the scale -- went out and bought a $140 scale thinking that would make the difference... the only loss I saw was $140.

So, I decided to break up with the scale... I started out telling myself I'd give it a month... after 1 month, I'd weigh myself. When the month was up, I was afraid to. My clothes were beginning to hang loose, but I was afraid if I stepped on the scale, I'd see a number I didn't want to see... so I decided to wait until I had gone down an entire clothing size. Well, that day came and went and then decided I'd wait until I was a size 10... never wore a size 10 in my life (largest size I wore was a 26.... but this go-round of weight loss had me wearing a very tight size 18 -- did manage to lose some in the past -- got down to a size 12, but then got lazy).

One day, I slipped into a size 10 pair of jeans...wow.... decided I didn't care about the numbers on the scale anymore...decided to wait and see if I'd ever fit into a single digit size... took about 3 weeks, I think...and suddenly the size 10 was a little too loose...and amazingly I was now wearing a size 8.... 4 weeks ago, I bought my first pair of size 6 jeans. I don't know what I weigh... I am, by no means, too thin.... I know that someday I will have to step on the scale to see what that almighty number is... but for now, it doesn't matter. I am healthy, I am happy and I can honestly say I would probably not be where I am today if I didn't break up with the scale. For me, tracking my food on MFP was (and is) the best measure there is....

Try going a month without weighing and then see where you are....