@GameOfJones I think we are similar in how it feels, the speed and how much we need to lose. It is slow - and I'm a little despondent that in this cycle I seem to have lost very little at less than 1kg - but I do feel better and it does feel like a sustainable long-term lifestyle change so I'm just sticking with it.
Also, the first two months there were clearly similarities in terms of hormones impacting things but that seems to have shifted this month which might explain the lower loss BUT, and it's too early to tell, it does also feel like I might be moving into less weird fluctuations and weight gain according to time of the month. I'll see over the next few weeks. Certainly, I had all my usual PMS/hormone symptoms this month... but at weird times and in weird ways and I'm now on day 2 of my period, which came unexpectedly slightly early, and appear to be only slightly bloated and so far I've not seen the weight balloon. I really really must go listen to those podcasts about IF and hormones! 
Without a doubt though, if I walk every day, it has more of an effect on both the scales and how I feel, than if I don't, no matter what I eat during my window. I think that's part of the insulin resistance issue.
To use a bit of an overused term, it does feel like a very mindful way to eat/diet doesn't it?