I know I know yet another weight complaint

[FedUpWeight]

I just don't know what to do. I've always been at the top of healthy on the BMI, never ever less than that (since I was about 11). I have a very curvy shape, bigger bottom and very large chest (34G) and am only 5,2. I got married 5 years ago and was a size 10-12 but still technically a little overweight on the BMI. Used to do a job where I was on my feet all day, had a tendency to skip meals as I was so busy, and generally ate very little and moved a lot. I have since changed to studying, which obviously means sitting down... all day.
Slowly the weight has crept up and now no matter what I seem to do it just won't budge. I have tried calorie counting, slimming world, carb cutting. I go spinning, run 4-5 times a week (5k at a time) and park my car a mile from campus so i can walk there and back every day. A while ago I joined a new GP practice due to moving and on first appointment he weighed me, and informed me that I am now technically just off being classed as obese. I am devastated.
I do not sit around all day eating. I exercise, watch what I eat, and just can't seem to keep on top of it. I use my fitnesspal and eat around 1200 calories per day as a base intake, then eat my "burnt" calories on top (usually around 500 additionally depending on the day)
I eat oats and low fat yoghurt for breakfast, soup for lunch, meat and veg for dinner and snack on fruit. Some days I crack and cheat, because i'm human, but mostly I stick to it
I feel completely at a loss as to what to do. I persistently try to get on top of my weight and nothing seems to work. I feel like it really shouldn't be this hard, I am still in my 20s and desperately want to have a baby and am worried my weight is hindering it. Has anyone else been through this? I am driving myself, and my husband completely bonkers. It is getting me so down.

Do you weigh your portions when using my fitness pal to log your meals? its very easy to underestimate how many calories you are actually eating if you don't accurately measure them.
The other advice I would give is to stop eating back your exercise calories, again it's very common to overestimate calories burnt through exercise.

Mrs
I weigh everything, i think you are right re exercise. I think I need to be more careful.
I guess it's just the classic easy to gain, hard to lose

No more eating back calories
Up the exercise
Try to make all your eating be in specific meals - no snacking or grazing

Did your doctor check things like pcos, thyroid function etc???

Sorry just over pressed ?

Talkin think I will have to be ultra strict and not eat back calories
Going to make sure all snacks are fruit from now on

Another No, doctor didn't offer any checks at all. Just looked at me like I was a complete moron and said "eat less" super helpful!
His exact wording was "you are close to being obese... I mean you don't look it, but you need to lose weight)
I was wearing size 12 jeans. Not perfect for my height, but I just don't see how I can be classed so big

Eating back your exercise calories is tricky - most tools that measure how many calories burned in exercise tell you gross calories burned, not net - so they include the calories you would have burned if you hadn't exercised, just by being alive for that time. If that makes sense?

When I ate back I never lost
because
we always under estimate the calories in food
and over estimate how hard we have worked
easier not to count it and get the bonus.

I've got a spare 10,000 calories across my hips and tummy for emergencies

Ooh Not I didn't realise that! quite deceiving then, will have to be extra careful
I always feel like exercise should have burnt LOADS so I def see what you mean Talkin

How much fruit are you eating? Not always the best diet food!

FedUpWeight
I'm a gym bunny
On a Friday morning I swim a mile in 40 minutes then to a 15 minute Tabata abs class then do an hour of Power Yoga, then an hour of BodyBalance
It adds up to 900 calories over and above my basic needs

ie one large muffin and a large cappucino
or in my case a bottle of wine and an extra slice of pizza

so three full hours is wiped out in 15 minutes

If you can get out of the habit of snacking
or if you have to snack, make it nuts or raw vegetable
and save all your daily calorie allowance for nice meals, it will start to come together.

I thought fruit was a fab snack until I saw how much sugar was in it! Sugar is most people's downfall...I have cut out sugar from my diet and feel much better for it (it took me 2 weeks cold turkey to break my sugar habit)

Lyndie I generally eat some berries with my breakfast (yoghurt and granola) and a banana and/or apple as snacks in the day.
Try to avoid grapes as so high in sugar, and not a massive fan of nuts

Thanks Talkin that's really good advice. Wow, your gym routine makes me want to lie down and take a nap! I run most mornings but am often studying/ on placement until late in the evening so struggle to do much on top. I try to go to a spin class once a week
I've heard yoga is extremely good for stress though so am keen to start, do you find it very beneficial?

Fedup
Try swapping your fruit munching for carrot chunks if you need stages to give up the snacks all together.
Or seeds
And if you can, ditch the carbs at the start of the day as they just fire up hunger.

Yoga : yes, its wonderful.
Strength, toning, flexibility and the breath control means you cannot think for an hour
which is great for people like me with a mildly psychotic temperament