Frustrated! Help me out?

Other peoples scales rarely agree with mine, they all seem to be calibrated differently. Can you not keep using the old ones?

There can be so many things, but I would say two things to you:

1. You should include your work in your daily activity when you set up your profile stuff or whatever - so your daily activity might be set to lightly active or active. That shouldn't be in your exercise calorie burn.

2. A lot of people gain weight when starting 30DS, or other intense exercising. Apparently, it has to do with muscles tearing and water storage for repair or something. I can't explain it well, but I've seen lots of good explanations about it. So, it's not real weight gain and it's not muscle gain, it's basically water weight that should level off. Many people have also said they didn't lose weight on 30DS until L3, or didn't lose much but lost inches.

So just some ideas. I would check your activity level and make sure it matches what you tend to do most days, then stop adding in working to your exercise. MFP takes the info you give it - weight, daily activity level, etc - then calculates a deficit for you so that you should lose WITHOUT exercise - you are already given a calorie deficit. That's why when you exercise you should eat at least some of your calories back (maybe not all if you are concerned about accuracy), because you already have a deficit and the exercise calories you eat are fueling your body properly given the extraenergy that you have expended on top of your daily activities.

They sell tape measures at the grocery store for like a buck or two if you are in the market for one!

I looked at your diary - your sodium is kind of high, which can make you retain water and gain lbs. Maybe try cutting sodium and drinking extra water for a couple of days?

I have been doing the shred for 15 days and bought a new scale in the middle of that time. I can completely comiserate with you. You can search 30DS in the forums and see lots of posts regarding the shred, but something I found in most of them is that the weight loss doesn't seem to start happening until late level 2 or early level 3, but physically my body is changing tons. Don't forget to take before and after pictures. The scale thing is really hard, but I adjusted it back for myself and the last couple of weeks have been hard, but I am more accurate now.

You are doing great!!! I look forward to seeing your progress.

The sodium's not from the ginger ale but the bread and processed foods you eat. If you were to reduce your sodium to even 2,300mg/day I think you'd see a change. Plus you seem heavy with the carbs and light on protein. Regardless of what the MFP stats are for carbs it's pretty high for weight loss.

Veganbaum, you make a good point! I have my profile set to 'active'.... I'm not working anymore regardless lol so I'm not sure where to even start with that, if I should bother changing it or not.

If you're pretty sedentary but have your profile set to active AND you're entering your exercise, you could be double dipping and ending up eating too much if you eat up to your allowed cals (including the exercise cals). I hope that makes sense.
I have a deskjob but I exercise a lot these days. I set my profile to sedentary and I enter my exercise separately, this way if I want to eat up to what MFP tells me I'm allowed, I know I'm generally eating the correct amount.