I need to vent!!!!

what kind of foods are you eating?

I haven't seen any loss yet either and I've been at it for four weeks so far, and got frusterated enough that I wanted to know what was up...

Well.. I found this info out earlier today while searching.
I'm sure that there's more info out there about the why it seems to be so hard to see results sooner than later ... But here are a few that I took notice over .. I hope it's helpful
Good luck with your goals!
~Christina

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Reasons you may gain at first when increasing your calories:

During the first week or so of introducing more food, you may experience some scale weight. This is fake weight and can be contributed for many reasons.

1.) Consuming more food means by pure odds that you will also be consuming more sodium. More Sodium than usual, every day for a week can bloat you close to 2 more lbs.

2.) Waste. The human body can hold up to 8lbs of waste. If you eat more, your body is temporarily going to hold more.

The weight gained in the first couple weeks cannot be fat as long as you are under your Sedentary caloric burn.

Usually this weight gain scares many people away from eating more. They panic and cut their eating habits too much. Getting into an unhealthy pattern and putting their metabolism into a stand still from the lack of the ((minimum)) 1200 calorie intake needed to even function from day to day.

Their body goes into starvation mode, and then things start to crawl along at a snails pace no matter how hard the exercise or deprive themselves of food, discouraging them even more.

Even when they feel like the results are beginning to show, because they deprived themselves so much and took an unhealthy approach to lose the weight, as soon as they try to go back to any type of a 'normal' eating/lifestyle routine the weight comes crashing back.
Some times with a lot more weight added on than the initial weight they tried so hard to break free from.

Every time they go through the cycle of the 'crash diet' weight loss, they then have the inevitable gain back. It is a little bit harder the next time around to lose the weight again. And it gets even harder with every crash diet bounce to get rid of those extra pounds that piled on as a protective buffer for the next bout of starvation/abuse it may have to endure.

It's a vicious cycle and it takes a lot of time and patience to break free of.

The key is to find a 'healthy' approach and stick through it even if it seems to be a slow process.

If you want short term results, things are quickly done.
If you want long term results, it takes time, determination and patience.

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You need to eat a bigger variety and more. If you eat too little you are setting yourself up for disappointment later. You need to eat more calories spread out over the day instead of just 3 times per day, even an apple between lunch and dinner will benefit you.

Too few cals and increased exercise you may send your body into panic, or starvation mode and your body is doing what it does naturally, protecting the vital organs from starving. You need a minimum of 800 calories a day just to give your body what it needs to function (breath, think, move).

Also, when you do the same exercise or same eatting from day to day your body adjusts and quits doing what you want it to do. You have done great so far, and it is hard not to keep going when you have done so well but you probably need to adjust your calorie intake vs. output to continue loosing weight.

Keep up the good work!