Not loosing weight and getting disheartened

Weight loss starts in the kitchen, all the exercise is irrelevant.
Also, is this exercise new? Water retention goes hand in hand with new exercise programs.

How are you calculating your calories eaten?

Are you weighing your food, or are you eyeballing, or are you using measuring cups/spoons? All solid food should be weighed, no measuring cups or spoons, and preferably no eyeballing.

Are you verifying that the nutrition info in the MFP database is in fact correct? I have seen errors and I verify everything before using it. I usually prefer to add my own foods.

Are you using the MFP calculations for exercise calories and eating them back? You could be over-crediting yourself because the MFP calorie estimations for exercise are often seriously out of whack. I do not eat back exercise calories for this reason - If I exercise a lot I generally use about 1/2 of what MFP says I earned.

Are you taking in a lot of sodium? Are you well hydrated & drinking lots of water? Water retention could have something to do with it.

Finally how are you weighing yourself? Ideally you should weigh yourself at the same time every time you do it, such as first thing in the morning after using the bathroom and before getting dressed or eating breakfast. I always weigh myself then, in my undies. The time of day and clothing you wear has an impact on the scale read out! If one time you're wearing thin shorts and a t shirt first thing in the morning, then later that day you weigh yourself after supper wearing blue jeans and a sweater - you could have several pounds difference from the morning readout.

How long have you been doing this? For some people it takes a week or two before it starts to "kick in."

Don't be discouraged - just evaluate what you're doing and adjust as necessary.

eskimokelly wrote: »

I suppose my trousers are a little loser, and I certainly never feel out of breath no matter how fast I walk or mop or vacuum etc.

This is much better success than the scale! Awesome job.

eskimokelly wrote: »

I suppose my trousers are a little loser, and I certainly never feel out of breath no matter how fast I walk or mop or vacuum etc.

With trying new exercises and working out muscles that aren't used very much, you're going to build a little muscle and retain water in the process. Your clothes being looser indicates that you're losing inches, which means that you're most likely losing fat.

eskimokelly wrote: »

I have around 2 stone to loose in total and so far I have lost around 3kg. I swim once a week for an hour. I run 7.5k twice a week and do smaller 4k runs twice a week. I have an activity tracker to make sure I do lots of steps and normally average around 16,000 steps per day. I also do not eat more that 1300 calories a day but the weight is not coming off. This week I only lost 0.4of a pound, last week I put on 2 lbs! I AM LOOSING HOPE THAT I WILL EVER SEE A DIFFERENCE ON THE SCALES

I have struggled with the same problem it seems as if you put more effort in working out the scale just stops its so depressing what I do know is, normally I eat 1200 calories a day, but if the scale stops I lower my calories to one thousand and eat only meat and veggies on that day than on the following day up them to a normal 1200 and eat normal as well you won't blive how low the scale go from that trick

Stop thinking that weight loss will be consistent every week - it won't!!
Just like when you get to maintenance your weight won't remain constant day to day or week to week.

Your diary is private, if you want guidance then you need to make it public or everyone is just guessing. But.... you have lost 17lbs in how many weeks? If you are losing on average around 1lb a week you would seem to be doing it right.

PS - you are going to confuse a lot of people by mixing stones, lbs and kg!