I Have Been Exercising for Two Weeks and Have Only Lost Four Pounds

If you are on a fat-loss regime, you should be congratulating yourself. The fact is, a person can only lose a maximum of two pounds of fat a week. You must remember that weight loss occurs from three sources: fat, water and muscle. Fat is what you want to drop. Water weight fluctuates, for some women as much as eight pounds a month. Learn not to panic about cyclic water weight gain or get excited about a drop in weight due to dehydration. You don't want to lose lean muscle because you will be lowering your metabolism and burning less energy than before you lost the weight. Be assured that for weight to come off permanently, it must be taken off slowly.