I dont know about the others - but for me a list of food and a rough total calorie number doesnt make a lot of sense. I only know how the foods that I eat add up... and how they break down nutritionally. I never eat most of the things that you are listing (e.g. biscuits, cereal, bread). I even had to stop eating most soup (including a lot of home made) because of the sodium content (stock cubes and paste is really high sodium)...
In fact - it could easily be that sodium is causing your problems. Add in the fact that most women do not lose weight every week of the month due to water retention due to TOM - there is every chance that your problem is water retention alone since you are just looking at a 7 day window.
My best advice is to log things in
FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal - that way we will see not just the calorie total - but the break down of nutrients. It is hard for me to say whether you are getting enough of anything from that - especially considering that so much has no quantities...
If you are not hitting the following targets - tighten that up and see how you go.
protein - 63g minimum to 120g depending on the amount of exercise you are doing.
fibre - 25g minimum
calcium 1000mg minimum
sodium 2400mg maximum
incorporate healthy fats - but you do not want your fats exceeding 30% of your
diet
drink at least 63 fl oz water a day - I am a similar weight and 2 litres covers it.
a 40, 30, 30 percent split of protein, carb,
fat is considered to be balanced.
You may well have to increase your
calories but that should be ok as long as you are in deficit (and you will see that from the calorie balance).
If you are hitting those targets then post a query in the
advanced weight loss section so that other people are likely to look in. Here - you are kind of limiting yourself to UK members seeing your query.
I see that for exercise you are limiting yourself to walking and running. I think that you would benefit from doing other forms of exercise - because for people with your
BMI - the problem is often more one of toning than of weight as such... I suggest that you read the exercise section. I personally think that things like
pilates have helped me in this area.
Even if losing weight well - the best that you could hope for is about a
pound in a week. The 1 to 2
pounds a week that you hear of is actually better described as about 1% of weight per week. People with more weight to lose tend to lose more. Since a lot of people weigh between 100 and 200
pounds you can see where the idea came from... At your weight - you are doing well if you lose 1.2
pounds a week. That will feel more like the one
pound that you seem to have anticipated losing as a bare minimum.
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