To think I’ll be stuck at 16 stone forever

People lose weight on Atkinson because they eat a lot of fat and protein which is very satiating and therefore they eat in a calorie deficit without effort. It also has the effect of balancing blood sugar and reducing insulin resistance. It still works by creating a calorie deficit.

I see you haven't responded to any of the comments abut weight loss injections.
They helped me lose 6 stone and I'm now a healthy weight.
Like you, I was insistent I was tracking my calories correctly. Evidently I wasn't.

What is your height ?

Way too many carbs. Your stores are only accessed in the absence of insulin.

The repeat carb intake (even salad) will keep releasing insulin.

So much terrible advice on this thread!! And misinformation. First of all: calories in vs calories out is absolute rubbish. If you eat 500 calories worth of biscuits in the morning, and then go to the gym and run on the treadmill til it says 500 calories - you have NOT cancelled out the biscuits. Because you use energy from glycogen stores in your liver and muscle before you start burning fat. You would need to burn about 3000calries worth of energy before you get to your fat stores and most of us who are not elite athletes don't get anywhere near that in one gym session. That's not to say you shouldn't exercise as it has loads of other brilliant benefits (including reducing insulin resistance) but it does NOT burn off fat. Advice to reduce calories further is also terrible. You'll be really hungry and it's not sustainable. Stop focusing on calories and instead have a really good look at what you are eating. Anything that has sugar in it or carbs that break down quickly into sugars (potato in cottage pie, pasta etc) are extremely insulinogenic and will make it very difficult to lose weight. You need to cut those out for now. Focus on protein and low carb fruit and veg, healthy whole fats (eg full fat Greek yoghurt etc). No UPF. Don't use diet or low fat products, they are usually full of crap. A boiled egg is 70 calories, same as a muller light yoghurt for example but much less insulinogenic and keeps you fuller for much longer. That's why focusing on calories is not helpful.

What makes you think she's gaining muscle? How?

This isn't how energy expenditure works.

I agree. If the objective is weight loss alone then excersize is not helpful. You end up having to eat 350 extra calories to fuel a 5k run so you don't pass out. Easier not to eat the 350 calories and sit on the sofa. (And of course if you eat 350 cals in carbs to fuel a run it is very, very easy for that to become 700cals becaise after all you're going for a run.)

For me the big wins from exercise is that while I'm exercising I'm not grazing and it kills my appetite for an hour or so.

If this is the case for you then you probably have fairly low muscle mass. You can increase your muscle with a planned programme if you want to. You'll have to be ok with minor weight gain on the scales though but it will be beneficial for your health, longevity and enabling you to eat more :)

I would say stop weighing yourself because it's fucking with your head!
Maybe 1 X a week or 1 X a fortnight carry on being consistent with what your doing and I thing you will be pleasantly surprised ❤️

There is an obsession with being slim/thin etc, which honestly isn't healthy for women over a certain age. Our bodies retain fat stores to protect our bones. We tend to plateau at a higher weight as we age. Sure, cutting calories further will see you lose more weight, but at a certain point, you are risking not getting a sufficient balance of nutrients. If you have a balanced diet, are exercising and feel well, have no markers of risk, etc., I would not obsess over the scale. I would get rid of the scale. I firmly believe that NHS calculator (like all medical science) does not fully understand the extent to which women's bodies naturally and healthily retain weight as we age.

Pre packaged food is wildly inaccurate in terms of calorie content. Cooking your own food from scratch is likely to be far more accurate.

Ditto. It takes about 3 days to see movement on the scales and around 5 days before I can add back in a small amount and still continue to lose weight.

If eating 1550 calories a day isn't helping you lose weight or you're losing weight very slowly, cut back to 1250 calories a day for 2 weeks and see how that goes

That's because your calorie expenditure has gone down as you get older. The science hasn't changed.

Is this all about body re composition - would one of those fancy scales help?

I am missing quite a large chunk of bowel, due to surgery. This makes digestion of fibre extremely difficult so my diet tends to be very carb heavy. I have managed to lose over five stone in the last 10 months by calorie counting. I don’t for one minute thank you are lying about the calories you’re consuming, but it is possible that somewhere a mistake is being made. I don’t follow an app, I weigh everything myself and stick to about 1500 cal a day. I write down everything I eat and I’ve had to ban butter, cheese, and crumpets from the house because I can’t control them 😊
I hope I’m not being patronising, but are you sure you are accurately weighing everything, including any spread you put on bread, milk and drinks, mayonnaise et cetera?
Just as a guide and I hope it helps, this is what I eat on a daily basis.

Breakfast is usually two slices of granary toast (Hovis with a triangle of laughing cow low-fat spread and marmite.
Lunch is usually a sandwich (I know, bread again) with Philadelphia light and ham or smoked salmon, and a packet of mini cheddars.
Dinner tends to be chicken or 5% mince, with pasta or potatoes, carrots, broccoli, tinned tomatoes.
Treat is either two ginger biscuits or 11 Maltesers.
I don’t drink tea, not much coffee, mostly water.

Good luck

Intermittment fasting. Works a treat.

No.

I would stop running as it makes you hungry and walk instead. Have you measured yourself? Your body composition will change through weight training.

I second intermittent fasting.

Basically, no breakfast, early lunch/dinner. An apple for a snack.

It sounds like you are doing everything right and going about it in a sensible and sustainable way. If your clothes are looser then you will have lost fat and toned up. Fat is bulkier than muscle so you could lose the same weight in fat as you gain in muscle and look slimmer without weighing less, as seems to be happening. Don't let the disappointment derail you as you are doing brilliantly. It sounds like you've hot a plateau so it might be good to not weigh yourself for a while, as it's demotivating, and then weigh yourself after you've next seen a change in how your clothes fit. Good luck, it gets so much harder as you get older but you are really working to make the changes and it will happen.