Week Two and Not Losing

I think that your body can initially react in strange ways to a sudden change in your routine. But stay the course, and your body will get used to it and start losing. Think of this as a permanent lifestyle change!

stick with your starting routine but you have up it and change it constantly to get your heart rate up when you exercise to burn calories,,, it takes a 3500 cal burn to lose 1 lb of fat.. so when you stay below your calorie intake of food the extra you have each day needs to add up to 3500 at the end of the week if you want to see a change... plus remember muscle weighs more than fat a better indicator at the start is measurements rather than the scale, take yours - waist, hips, chest, thigh, bicep...and re-measure after another 2 weeks..
good luck , any exercise you do is more than the person sitting on their couch !!!

Once you put in all the info into mfp and they gave you your daily caloric goal you must be setup for roughly 2 pounds a week to achieve that goal in 14 weeks, unless you are short (under 5ft 4) I would say that the goal is pretty ambitious and most likely not achievable in a healthy manner as the body will cooperate less and less with rapid weight loss once you get below 20% bodyfat which is the healthy amount for a woman. It can be done do not get me wrong but I would not recommend it as you did not gain the weight overnight and you will no shed it overnight either. The number 1 mistake I see on here is that people get confused as to how mfp is setup. MFP has you setup to shed that weight goal with no exercise and that is why you are supposed to eat back the exercise calories so if you are not doing so I would recommend that you do eat them back. If for no other reason than recovery as the body requires some calories to help you heal from workouts. You should focus less on the scale weight and more on body composition as the scale is a piss poor means of tracking true progress, measurements and bodyfat % is the way to track true progress. Far to many women I know eat as little as possible, workout like crazy and hit that wall with their progress, or set a scale weight which are unrealistic given what a healthy weight should be for them.

this happened to me when I first started. For the first week I did nothing but gaining weight despite all my efforts. However, now on week four the weight is starting to go down. I also started doing more cardio and less strength training.

That's not uncommon. The 1 lb weight gain is likely just water. No matter how much water you drink, what you eat or how much you exercise your body will occasionally retain water. It's completely normal for anyone to see 1 - 2 lb fluctuations throughout any given day. It took about 3.5 weeks for me to start losing weight, then it was a steady loss for months. Just stick with it.