To think I’ll be stuck at 16 stone forever

I dunno, @justmeandthedogs , you eat more than I do just to maintain my weight loss, if this isn't working for you , eat less...one meal a day.

Yeah, that recipe pops up on bodybuilding forums a lot. A lot of his recipes do, tbf, and they all look pretty tasty if somewhat odd. He's like the Slimming World hack of the bodybuilding world.

I don’t think anyone thinks you’re,lying, I certainly don’t. I think you’re mistaken, like many others, but thays not the same as lying.

Actual poison? I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic.

I think it's more that you mentioned, bread. Everyone who has access to Google knows you cannot lose weight if you eat bread. Bread is poison.

If you're interested in new ways to eat your bread, Greg Doucette (a pro bodybuilder/power lifter) has a recipe for French toast you could make with sourdough.

I don't eat bread because I also know that bread is poison (I also know that I have serious issues with food that I shouldn't project onto innocent people), but if anything could tempt me to eat bread, it's covering it in egg whites and cinnamon.

Yes op we are all being mean as you’re fat, it’s not many of us have been there ans trying to help you with experience.

Maybe try mixing up what you’re eating? More protein, less carbs .

That could work if OP's progress is that frustrating to her, but it's worth bearing in mind she's also mentioned running and that her goal is to improve her running times.

If she's running and doing everything she listed with her PT and 10k steps a day, that's a lot of activity to manage on little to no carbs. She's going to feel like shit, and her progress in the gym and with running will stall, so I suppose it depends on what her main goal is weightloss or fitness, and whether it's worth stalling progress in one to accelerate the other.

I've accidentally eaten low-carb the last few days because I ran out of money and had to cope with what we had in the house to eat, which was eggs, mostly, inordinate amounts of eggs.

I cut my run short by just less than half this morning because I was physically struggling and mentally just could not...

Even though I've finally been paid, and just munched my way through 600 calories of quinoa, rocket, edamame, pickled slaw, and smoked salmon, I still feel like shit and the idea of strength training this evening is just no... Before I ate the salad, the dog was starting to look like an appealing snack.

She did say her plateau has only been a "few weeks," so if it were me, I'd stick with it another couple of weeks before thinking about tweaking anything. If I did feel like I needed to tweak something in a couple of weeks.

As others have said previous I don't think 10k steps average speed alone is hugely beneficial, although it's a better thing to aim for than nothing. I was doing 10k easily doing 2 school runs on foot per day and a trip around town/the supermarket but I only saw weight loss from walking when I was on mat leave and doing 20k plus. I do about 18k steps on days I run.

Yes, but that test doesn’t measure insulin resistance, so a healthy marker doesn’t tell you anything. I was normal on that test too but my actual insulin resistance was off the charts. It’s also linked to PCOS and hormonal issues, rather than simply diabetes!
Mine didn’t respond to anything other than meds. The OP doesn’t seem to phased by it though. I got to the point my desperation was enough that I begged my GP to try it. Funnily enough I read about it on this forum and recognised it as my issue immediately.

I found at 13 and a half stone I had to eat <1400 to lose weight, in spite of doing a fair bit of exercise I think if you sit down a lot - which I do due to my job, even though I swim, do spin class, running, yoga, weights and other cardio and 10k+ a day average steps.

The good thing is my maintenance at 11 stone odd is about 1700 which is manageable.

I had some success with variable calories/5:2/fasting but it was really mounjaro that helped me finally get two stone+off. For years I'd get to twelve stone something and give up as it was so slow. With mj I lost a pound a week so nothing alarming but nice and steady. I'd stopped taking it now and have kept the weight off.

30 is healthy though. And not going to get metformin easily.

I suggested earlier try cutting a bit perhaps to 1,400 and following a low carb diet - ideally just low fat protein, pulses for carbs and cruciferous veg.

Again, that’s not a test for insulin resistance. There are really only two options to explain the weight situation. The first is you can’t weigh/measure/count calories/are eating secret calories, the second is you are insulin resistant. The test you have had won’t show you that. Personally, I’d try metformin

I meant a bodybuilder cutting diet. Yes even carbs and protein. Not sustainable - but I only suggest for 2-3 weeks to see if it helps get out of plateau.

A bodybuilder-type diet could very easily include sourdough. They love carbs. Carbs give them the energy to get through a workout. They carb load before lifting sessions, especially if they're bulking.

If they're cutting, it's generally an even split of carbs and protein, and a small amount of fat, unless they're trying to get to competition-level bodyfat %, which is not how they eat long-term as it's neither healthy nor sustainable.

The sources of carbs they prefer are wholegrains such as brown rice, root vegetables, and... sourdough.

I agree. OP has been admirably restrained in the face of posters deciding they know better than she does about how she's been logging her calories and the amount of steps she's been doing etc. It's bizarre how those posters are so insistent they are right and she – the person whose lived experience it is – is wrong!

Yes - but that’s one of the flaws with CICO
a) the online TDEE calculators are an estimate only
b) different macronutrients etc are absorbed different ways

On the basis that she is eating what she said there are two options
a) her stall is because she has retained water etc at the outset of her weight lifting journey - but it’s unlikely to be over 2-3kg and so that would only stall things for 3-4 weeks or
b) her TDEE is lower than the estimates

My personal recommendation would be to do 2 weeks of a bodybuilder type diet at 1,500 (chicken fish eggs fat free dairy and green veg) and see if the scales moves and then reassess.

She's said multiple times she counts every single calorie, she's shared the app she uses, other people have backed her up regarding the efficacy of the app and the fact that it adjusts recommended deficit to accommodate weight loss...

...and still people are arguing the toss over the calories in an avocado, how big a slice of sourdough toast is, and how she must be counting wrong.

I think she's being the model of patience and restraint, myself.