Stuck on The Scale For over a week now!

A week.

One week.

Seven days.

Patience grasshopper

Aside from their has only been one week advice which is totally true...

Just double check your activity settings, I think you may have misunderstood that part. On mfp the activity level you choose excludes purposeful exercise. It is just asking about your level of activity as you go about your daily routine. The app is designed to give you the amount of calories you need to lose the amount of weight per week you chose assuming no purposeful exercise. You then log your exercise each day and the app is designed for you to "eat back" your exercise cals so will adjust your daily calories to be eaten accordingly. Because of difficulties in estimating calories burned for an exercise some people eat only a portion back or none, some eat them all.

If you set your activity at high to include exercise and then log exercise you end up counting exercise twice and this can affect your weight loss rate.

Do you weigh your food?

Also you need to be consistent for at least 4 weeks rather than freaking out and chopping and changing

Toshberry25M wrote: »

yes weigh my meat... i don't weigh every single bite but i go by labels and serving sizes and what not

You need to weigh all your foods. You will be surprised.

Two things...
1. One week is rarely enough time to see results. I’ve gone months without a loss then had a whoosh of a few pounds. Weight loss isn’t linear so you may need to adjust expectations there
2. Your activity level on MFP should not include exercise. It’s designed to be based off of your regular daily activity excluding workouts as a baseline.

Best advice - Be patient and update your activity level based on regular daily activities. Add workouts separately and eat back 50-75% of the extra calories to allow for over estimates on burns. Weigh and track calories carefully because once your in a healthy weight range and close to goal there is very little room for error. An extra few hundred calories a day is easy if you don’t weigh and can ruin a deficit

A few comments:

1. A week on a new routine is too short to assess anything. A week is not a plateau. A week is "barely just started the new routine". Stick with it for 4-6 weeks, then assess.

2. People hold onto water weight for muscle repair when they start a new exercise program, up to several pounds of it, and it can temporarily mask fat loss. If you've recently amped up exercise, this could apply. If you added more calories, you likely added additional sodium and/or carbs. Even if still at a totally healthy level, more than usual of those will also hold a little extra water weight as they're metabolized. Extra calories also means extra food that increases average digestive system contents. None of those is fat, so if they cause a scale jump or stall, it's nothing to worry about. It'll balance out soon.

3. You may be underestimating food calories, for reasons others have explained well.

4. Without illegal performance enhancing drugs, no one gains measurable muscle in as week. Well, OK, under utterly ideal circumstances - perfect intense training program, calorie surplus, plenty of protein, relative youth - a lucky woman might gain a quarter of a pound of new muscle mass in a week, and you could measure that . . . in a lab. Look better, get fitter and stronger (through neuromuscular adaptation)? Yes. Add enough new muscle - in a calorie deficit - to equal any reasonable rate of weight loss? Sadly, no.

Patience! It sounds like you basically have a good routine going, with maybe a need to tighten logging a bit. It will produce results. Stuck with it for 4-6 weeks, then let us know how things are going! I'm betting on good news.