HELP I am not losing weight **TEARS UP**

Drink tons of water and eat back your exercise calories, if you set up MFP correctly with your weight and your goal each week it will build the deficit in for you. If you are not consuming enough calories your body will be in starvation mode.

When you eat make sure every calorie counts. Don't eat those 100 calorie snacks, that is an empty 100 calories, eat a banana, a medium one is 105 calories and is full of nutrients. Just make sure those calories you are eating are ones that are good for you.

Make sure you have breakfast everyday and try to eat 5-6 smaller meals throughout the day. Doing this will tell your body, that you are at no risk of starving and so it is ok to burn stored calories. This is when your metabolism will start to go up. this doesn't happen overnight, you have to be patient.

Change your workout routines. Our bodies adapt to become more efficient. If you do the same workout all the time your body will figure out how to do that process and not spend as much calories doing it. It is a great survival tactic of our bodies but not so great for weight loss. Also if you are not doing any resistence or weight training you should be doing some. Muscles burn calories. If you are only doing cardio 25% or so of your weight loss could be from muscle loss, this will make it harder to keep losing.

Only worry if it stays that way for a week. My scale will say I gained 6 lbs in 5 minutes sometimes! Digital and spring loaded scales are not all that accurate or consistent. Get on your scale with a 5lb weight or something and check it.

I find myself with the same issue so I dont personally weigh in everyday since our weight fluctuates day to day. Keep possitive!

My advice... THROW THAT SCALE OUT THE WINDOW!!!

Judge your weight by how your clothes fit. I get pissed when I look at the scale and it goes up but then I remember how much I weighed and how much I lost (60 pounds). Look at your TOTAL weight loss as a VICTORY!!!

Also, in order to gain 2 pounds, it means you have to eat and store 5000 calories in fat cells. 1 pound of fat is 2500 calories

1 pound of fat is 3500 calories... not 2500 hundred. So she'd need to eat and store 7,000 calories. Highly doubt that happened.

In reply to another poster, muscle does not weight more then fat. They weigh the same but muscle is more dense and compact then fat.

To Op: Try drinking more water and changing up you're exercise. Also try eating only a little bit of your exercise calories and see if that helps.

This week I made sure to stay UNDER my calorie goal and I worked out for 5 days in a row! (Which, I never do!)

I would bet anything that from increasing your activity level, you're retaining a little bit of water. When you start or increase exercise, you build muscle by tiny little tears, that hold water while they heal. You could also be holding water for a number of other reasons, but if you stay with your plan, eat right (lots of water, dairy, fruits, veggies, protein, fiber, etc.), and move more, the scale will move too.

And if it doesn't, then I'd start taking measurements if you don't already, because scales lie. Sometimes you're getting smaller even when you weigh more, and measurements will tell you if that's happening.

The best advice I ever got on this site was to track my sodium. That made all the difference. If I go over, and then gain, I know why. It can be SO easy to go over too, especially if you're eating anything processed.

Keep on keepin' on girl.

It sounds to me that if you are eating consistently under your net calories and working out 5 days, your body has gone into Starvation mode and is holding on to every fat calorie. Try reading the "Read me first NEWBIE" articles to get a better understanding of why you should eat at least some of your exercise calories back and make sure you eat your goal calorieis = net calories. Try this for a week and see what happens.

I'd like to echo the fact that not only does your body change day to day according to whether you're retaining more or less water, but the vast majority of bathroom scales just AREN'T THAT ACCURATE. Weigh yourself 5 times in a row, see what sort of range it gives you. The last scale I bought couldn't decide what I weighed within 20lbs! On either side! (useless crap, I returned it)

One thing I haven't seen mentioned here is underlying medical reasons. You may be gluten intolerant, as that's a surprisingly common problem that prevents people from losing weight. Could be other reasons, too.

Dont get to upset, it could be water or an increase in muscle that is only just starting to show on the scales. keep at it