Why am I putting ON weight?

That's such a stupid comment, of course walking will help with weight loss. Any additional movement and cardio will assist weightloss

Just looking at what you don't eat makes me hungry. Have you tried eating more and strength training instead?
Then it won't matter about the scales as muscle is heavier than fat.
Also, are you drinking enough?

I find carbs is my biggest killer for losing weight even if I stick to my calories.
I tend to only have carbs for either lunch or dinner...not both.

For my a typical day is:
Breakfast - Tea and cereal bar/fruit/homemade breakfast muffin (I'm not a big breakfast eater)
Lunch - Salad, soup, or my fav at the moment is pate, cheese and cucumber. I tend to avoid carbs at lunch
Dinner - spag bol, chilli, paella, pasta bake, shepherds pie, meat and veg. I still have things like pizza but go for the thinnest base and look at the lowest calorie ones.

Weight loss is slower now I am older than before. I'm 10 years older than when I last lost weight and its alot slower. About 0.5kg a week. I'm on about 1400 calories a day. I don't eat back exercise calories as my exercise is sporadic (some weeks loads others not). I log and weigh everything, double checking calories on packets against what Nutracheck says. It's hard work!!

You are talking nonsense, a 5 mile run vs a five mile brisk walk will burn pretty much the same amount of calories as running, it will just take longer.

OP have you tried intermittent fasting? It's the only thing that works for me and also upping my exercise. Don't stress about it. Consistency is key to long term weight loss.

I also avoid bread and potatoes a good bit now. I do eat carbs as our body needs them but when I eat them I eat brown rice or brown pasta. And I have a couple of tablespoons of them. Not a whole bowl.

I'm currently on 1200 cals to lose weight and I'm still quite surprised what I can eat. I use nutracheck to count and I've found it great with the information it gives and recipes.

Breakfast sometimes runs into lunch for me but usually consists of yogurt with berries and a sprinkle of seeds. Or eggs are brilliant fillers, good protein and low cal. I avoid bread, potatoes and try to have wholemeal pasta. I cook all my meals from scratch as then I know exactly whats in it.

I don't really exercise much, I know I should but just haven't had the motivation to but I'm still losing weight

I agree with lowering the calories. Have as much protein as possible to fill you up.

Don't stop the exercise, especially the weights. In time, you will move up to 5kg, then 7.5, then 10kg weights and you will burn so much more and your body shape will change.

Also worth mentioning that it may be water retention due to starting weights - I would weigh in once a month instead.

This sounds interesting.

Could be worth reading around the societal, ingrained ideas about obesity.

Also to add reading 'Why we eat (too much)', does the same... and the 'Zoe' podcast on obesity (it honestly made me well up). Your 'set point' needs to change.

Why would you stop the exercise. 20 mins with 2-4kg weights is barely exercise anyway. Don’t stop. It’s good for mobility if nothing else.
walking is good for everyone.

Don't have a caffeine drink until at least mid morning and after you've eaten something, it increases your cortisol levels and that interferes with losing weight.

Breakfast: 200mls unsweetened soya milk (I can't stand drinking cows milk) plus a couple of spoons of plain yoghurt, with some vanilla or other flavouring. Small portion of wholegrain cereal soaked in soya milk with some fruit - oranges, a few berries, pineapple or mango (I keep them ready chopped up in the freezer)

Midday: Home made soup, two slices of wholemeal toast with butter, a bit of chicken or a poached or boiled egg.

Dinner: Main protein meal, veggies, a portion of carbs such as chick pea and mixed bean salad.
Pudding is something like home made griddle cakes or a muffin, replace one third of the flour with buckwheat flour, some fruit or ginger to flavour.

Snack; some nuts, bits of cheese, a stick of celery and carrot.

Its pretty dull but my blood sugar is finally under control and I've lost 7lbs this year - its just melted off. I've got a couple of stone to go.

Every single person’s body is different. The suggestions of how many calories you need per day are an average guide, not one size fits all. You need to trial and error to see what works for your body.

I am 5 ft 6. Used to be 13 stone but now I am 9 stone, after two years of hard work. I do 10-15k steps per day, do 45 min circuit training and HIIT classes 3-4 times per week, which include quite a lot of weights.

I can only eat 1500 cals to maintain my weight (have maintained for 6 months now.) To lose weight I can only eat 1000-1200. It sucks…. As I love food haha.

My sister is the same height as me, does very little exercise and can eat twice as much as me but never puts on weight. It’s the luck of the draw!

Try out different calorie amounts and exercise routines over a few weeks/months and you will learn to find out what your body needs to lose and maintain.

I make your tdee 1800 calories, which means you're only in 100 cal deficit a day (not counting exercise).

Its not enough of a deficit to absorb calories miscalculation and weight fluctuations due to your cycles/water retention on any given day.

1lb a week loss needs a 3500 calories deficit a week, so eating 1300 a day average

I tried calorie counting like this and lost nothing. I’ve tried all sorts of things. So I decided to eat like an insulin-resistant type 2 diabetic person. No calorie counting, no increase in exercise, just minimising refined carbs, bread and potatoes, increasing fibre, protein and good fats, reducing snacks etc. I’ve lost nearly 2 stone since October and gone down 2 dress sizes, and I’ve never felt better.

for goodness sake don't stop exercising, that's a ridiculous approach

Despite what my tde says, in order to lose weight I need to eat no more than 1280 calories a day. I am 5ft 8.
I think in a past life I must have been a highland pony designed to survive on very little no matter what activity level.

walking can be a fantastic exercise. but there is a big difference between walking 10k steps and WALKING 10k steps (engaging core muscles and getting dlightly out of breath).

If you've just been doing this for 2 weeks then it's almost certainly water retention from the newly added exercise. Carry on for 2 more weeks and see what happens. You can't be gaining fat in a calorie deficit.

Too many carbs, especially at breakfast. Ditch the cereal and replace it with quality protein.

I eat a lot of soups, tuna salads, chicken salads, omelettes. Sometimes for dinner I eat fish with a lot of vegetables. Or sometimes I have a vegetable stir fry with a small amount of rice. Low cal fry spray.

Em what else. If I eat breakfast I always have yoghurt or omelette. I wouldn't eat cereal.

I don't really eat things like pasta or potatoes in big amounts anymore, if I do I have a small amount of them.

I eat a lot of fish, chicken, fruit and veg. With a small amount of things like potatoes.

Good luck with it all! You can do it

It’s not literally useless but given 10k steps (at a good pace) is about one standard mars bar… yeah, might as well use that time better if it’s actually for exercise. Get a sweat on!

I would check my fasting sugar levels for a few days and if it's borderline to pre diabetes then I would start reducing my sugar intake and replace the banana with another fruit.

I also don't think that we HAVE to have three meals a day. Especially if we are overweight and trying to lose weight.

I usually skip one of the three meals these days. But If I skip breakfast I'll eat a healthy snack.

Or if I have breakfast, I skip lunch, then I'll eat a big healthy dinner later on

I've Been feeling much healthier this way. And I've lost weight.

When I was eating three meals a day I was overweight.

We need to listen to our bodies and do what's best for us.