To think I’ll be stuck at 16 stone forever

It’s not

You are definitely wrong if you think that 100 calories has the same impact on the body, no matter what its source

Stupid question but are you weighing daily and using an app to track?
that changed things for me, I thought I wasn’t losing but when I started that I could see the trend more than weighing once a week

You are wrong.

Many posts are explaining that sugars and carbs are stored differently to protein. You need to reduce these.

Your body is storing them rather than burning fat.

Look up those stats online.

You can't argue with the figures of km to miles and time taken to walk them.

You seem determined to argue with every thing I post - even facts.

Why do you keep accusing me of posting stuff 'because you are overweight'. .

What is the issue?

Are you arguing about how a km converts to miles? Look online.

Or how long it takes to walk those miles at the 2.7mls per hour you quoted?

This is a waste of my time.

I mean, everyone thought Liver King was the dog's bollocks until it turned out he was taking a fuck tonne of steroids.

If one person tells you X is wrong because look at them but science says X is right, that person is probably lying to you.

Also, regarding "eating like your ancestors" we were able to evolve precisely because of our ability to cook and process food and therefore make better use of the food energy available to us, so eating like your ancestors is probably not the best way to go about maintaining good health, assuming you mean cavemen, which your mention of the Ice Age would suggest, we've evolved since then and have different dietary needs.

I was the same. Hovered between 15 and 16 stone unless I ate an incredibly restricted diet (I mean unhealthy, like just one slice of toast and some fruit per day, then I lost two stone…). I took Mounjaro and it fell off even though I didn’t eat much less. Can you afford that? I guess for some reason my blood sugar/ insulin/ metabolism is screwed.

Now I take a low regular dose and eat normally - probably more than before and am a healthy weight

As your clothes are looser, and you’re lifting weights, it may be that you’ve gained muscle which weighs more but will eventually burn more fat. Your diet sounds very sensible and lifting weights is great for you as you get older too. Well done 🙂

Good looking people get cancer and die too, you know. Sorry but I’m not sure what you’re trying to prove with that one.

Google Andrew Chaffee. He's looking pretty good considering he's killing himself with meat.

You might want to reread me. I eat my own sprouted legumes and seeds.

You are also wrong about cholesterol but you do you.

It doesn't imply anything. You burn calories on the sofa. As long as you intake less calories than you burn you will lose weight. Nothing to do with exercise. You can eat calories far faster that you can burn. I just cycled 25k. I could eat the calories I've burned in three mouthfuls.

Easier not to eat three mouthfuls than to cycle 75 minutes.

A pound of muscle and a pound of fat both weigh… a pound.

That’s some good progress on the running, OP! Your fitness is definitely improving.

I do between 10-20k steps a day most days and most of that is functional walking (so walking to get places as part of my normal routine). Today I’m on 12k steps and have walked 8.8km (my Garmin tracks via GPS) which is a pretty normal day for me with school/nursery runs and then I walked to get my hair cut and back. I’ve made it a mission to walk wherever it is feasible to walk, and although I’m not sure it’s that effective for weight control, it’s certainly improved my functional fitness and is a nice complement to my running. Just keep on keeping on!

How many of us are currently in survival situations..?

Well there is actually quite a bit to suggest that red meat could cause cancer. Best not to eat it too often.

I feel your pain OP and can't see that you're doing anything wrong, it's great what you've achieved so far. I honestly have come to believe that there is no "one size fits all" approach to weightloss, and am weary / wary of every "magic bullet offered. During my adult life (57 and post menopausal since my late forties) I've swung from just under nine stone to 14 at my heaviest, and the liqest I've managed in the last 4 years was 12 stone. Currently 13 and holding.

One thing I do think is that stress abd hormones can have quite an impact. Pre menopause, stress and erratic even unhealthy eating would see me drop pounds without trying or noticing till clothes stopped fitting, post menopause it's been largely the opposite. For example, I spent about 3 weeks with my dying father in hospital, forcing myself to eat one bacon roll a day, and doing more steps than I think I've ever done because hospitals are big and I also had lots of outside errands to do as well. I was 14 stone when Dad went in, and 14 stone when he died.

After about a month of considerably less activity, appalling self care and questionable "nutrition" and all the usual sadmin, I noticed my skirts dropping onto my hips, weighed myself, and lo, a stone had vanished and my stomach had noticeably shrunk. Have been trying to capitalise on that a bit for months, and not an ounce has shifted. Am currently OMAD / keto -ish, but with a slight lack of consistency. It's almost as though the more I focus and fret about it, the more stubbornly the fat cells cling on. I've not gained any back though, so am thinking I need to improve fitness and pretend I'm content the way I am 😂 That said I'm wearing a size 12 skirt and people have commented I have cheekbones again. Appreciate the skirt us probably a vanity sizing thing.

Anyway, just wanted to wish you all the best, and that you achieve what you want to at the pace that suits you.