You are not answering your calorie intake, its really important
I put your weight and height into a calculator and put your age in as 35 and for you to loose 1lb a week you need 1,725 calories a day. To loose 2lb a week you are down to 1200 calories. I also put you down as light exercise
What you are eating probably isnt enough and your body is storing.
You need to eat your calories in the healthiest way possible. Fill half or 2/3s of every plate or bowl with fruit or veg or even a mix - I throw grapes onto a salad for example. Im not scared of eating fruit and salad for breakfast
Actually in this COL we are living through, its my veg bill thats the hardest to find :(
So if you like a cooked breakfast, have it. Change the bacon to medallions or trim off all fat. Turkey rashers are lower calories. Skip the sausages. Eat eggs, use a spray bottle for oil if you want to fry an egg, but try poached or scrambled or omelette . Add mushrooms ( I microwave with a dash of water and lots of seasoning ) grilled tomatoes, spinach. If you want toast, use wholemeal ( if you are going to use calories on bread, get the roughage at least ) if you want something different try air fried cold cooked potato slices or make potato cakes from cold plain mashed spuds bound with an egg
Dont be afraid of potatoes, great filler upper, its the added fats that the problem. So I eat potatoes, plain boiled ( with a gravy dish so they arent dry ) I make wedges and air fry, chips, air fry, do jacket spuds
Cut the milk to skimmed and measure it. Its amazing how many calories slip through if you are a constant tea or coffee drinker
Try to cook from scratch if you can. That way you have control of the sugar, salt and fat content. I make a mean chicken tikka massala for example and only use 1 tbs of fat ( oil ) and yet its as flavoursome as any they you would buy
Im on 1200 calories a day as Im smaller, possibly older, and not as heavy and I aim on just loosing a pound a week. I look at my 1200 calories think thats sod all, wouldn't fill a tooth, and then have to work out how Im going to be fed, be full, be satisfied and still have a wee treat
And to get that 1lb a week, I walk my socks off on top of it all :)
Seriously it doesn't matter what plan you are on, the only thing that will work is a calorie deficit. But it has to be a manageable deficit. You cannot cut so low that you are hungry or so low that when the weight shifts and you go happy days and go back to how you used to eat that the weight comes back twice as quick
It takes a lifetime to learn the bad habits that got us overweight, dont expect to un learn them or miss them in 12 weeks.
Today Ive had a crap day, I work in a restaurant /coffee shop. It was dead, no management, food popped itself in my gob all day. So I know today Ive gone well over ( dont even need to check ) and tonights tea Ive had to choose not to have ( would have been grand if I hadn't pigged out all day ) and Im going to take a poached egg on a salad. Im not even hungry yet, but I know if I dont take the time to make something now, Ill be at the biscuits at 10pm
Dont give up. If you have decided the weight needs to go, keep trying but Im afraid you are going to have to be boring and learn the calorific value of everything you eat