Don't understand why I'm not losing weight

That looks like a good plan :-)
You don't need to cut the carbs down completely, just reduce, what I do when I'm having pasta or rice, I will have a half serving (50g dry) and make up the difference with veg.

If you don't eat back exercise, make sure your net doesn't drop below bmr.
Mfp cals are worked out net so expect you to eat back exercise.
Bmr/tdee cals already include exercise so you don't need to log.

Eta - also double check entries in database. Quite a lot are just plain wrong or only have calories entered, so you could be eating more or less than you think you are!

Oh, and one more cyclic dieting is a good idea too if you plateau for too long. Every now and then I have more calories than normal and it doesn't have a detrimental effect - in fact, a day or two after I'll drop a pound or two.

I'm there with you. I think it's my age (45)... I was told to do at least 45 mins of cardio 4 times a week. Mostly I can only get in 3 days a week. I also do weights and have considerable weight when doing them.. I think I need to lower my calorie intake further. As well, I try not to eat anything white -- sugar, flour, bread, salt,.... lay off carbs. I try to increase the protein too but nothing seems to help. Gotta be age.... Never had this problem in my younger years....

I have been on MFP for nearly 60 days now and this week gained 1.5 lbs - leaving my total weight loss at 4.5 lbs (4 of which were the difference between my last SW weigh in dressed and in the evening and my first MFP weigh in naked and in the morning) so really I have lost a whole half pound in two months.

If I am reading the above correctly you are saying that your FIRST weighin almost 60 days ago was naked in the morning and your LAST weighin was dressed in the evening. If that is correct you may have lost more than you think. As a matter of fact if I am reading what you meant correctly you may be doing a little better than your target of 1 lb. per week. Could you clarify this?

Tweak your carb/protein ratio. Up your proteins and lower your carbs. Yes, plus lots of water and rest.

Thank you everybody for your comments and advice. here is my plan:

Up my protein - based on advice I should be eating 161g protein a day - going to work on this
Lower Carbs - will work on this - hopefully a few small changes will reduce my carbs, i.e. quinoa not rice or gluten free pasta
Exercise - bought 30DS on Thursday - will start it next week and see if that makes a difference
Calories eaten - will try to hit a minimum of my BMR each day after exercise - will go and reset my daily calories to 1600 (scary figure took me a moment to type that!)
Weights - I have been doing a bit with weights, nothing I would consider major however so I will try to increase the level of weights I am doing.
I already drink in excess of my 8 glasses of water each day so not much to change on that one
Forgot to add that I am not going to eat back any exercise cals either for a little while now that I have upped my daily cals to 1600

If anyone can see any glaring mistakes in my plan then please shout up and let me know.

thank you again for stopping by and reading my post and giving me advice :-)

It's not 1g protein per pound of total body weight BUT 1g protein per pound lean mass. You are 161 pounds, assuming you have 100 pounds lean mass (muscle) you would have 100g protein. You could have a bit more but 100g should be enough.

I also agree that you need to up your protein. I looked over your diary and I am by no means an expert or a nutritionist I just know what worked for me. I cut out processed foods which I see you dont have much at all of(Super job there!) I cut down on sodium and your diary shows you stay well under but some of you items you have no sodium count and I know cookies have sodium so be sure to pick the correct nutritional info when adding to your diary! You are drinking your water (great job there!!)
I see you are counting Sat Fat instead of Fat grams. and if you are over you Sat fat I am thinking(I may be wrong here and Im sure someone will correct me) that then your fat grams may be over also. Ok on occasion for sure just not all the time!
The carbs are high in my opinion. Some people( my sister is one) gains weight when her carbs are too high. Me Im the opposite and I tend to lose weight on my high carb days when I am doing carb cycling. maybe you are one that gains or doesnt lose when the carbs are high,. Not sure but I think carbs tend to hold water and if you are drinking all your water like you should then maybe one reason for lack of weight loss is the carbs and water BUT dont stop the water just reduce the carbs. slowly at first til you get to a more manageable level.

Just putting this next item out there as I saw others post on this. Age is no excuse for the lack of weight loss. I am 54 years old and when I was 53 I lost 100lbs. Dont think it took me any longer than anyone else to lose that weight. Took me 10 months. At an older age we just have to have more determination as we dont have as much time left to get this lifestyle change done so we can enjoy it!

Keep up the great job and slowly tweak your diet and you should get that weight off!!!

I would concur with the couple posts that talk about adding in some resistance training to your workout - the 30DS will add some variety for you too. If you are doing 1 hr per day of the same activity - its great you are moving around - but vary it up a bit. Anything moving will help burn calories but an hour a day of the same (including swimming for the person that posted that) may be taking you from fat burn mode into "conditioning or training" mode whereby your body is getting used to the activity and starting to figure out how to expend LESS energy in the process, not more.

You can have a perfectly balanced diet without fruit. What does Jenny say ?

Sugars from fruit are sugars and carbohydrates just like any other.

Society may have glorified some foods and demonised others, in doing so we got a massive obesity problem. Go figure.

I don't think any of use are on here trying to lose weight because "we ate to much fruit"

Are u eating enough? Sometimes u have to switch the exerise up,sounds like ur burning about 500 cals a day! I go from walking to strength training to many dvd workouts! I didnt see ur diary but sounds like your storing fat and not eating enough,try eating your exercise cals for a week and see if that helps and switch up ur exercises! I do biggest loser powerwalk and chris powell weight loss addition,along with leslie sansone and jillian michaels,switching back and forth! Dont give up just try different things! Have you had ur thyroid checked? If not do so cuz a sluggish thyroid will not let u lose either!!! Good luck on ur journey!

it may be sodium as well. You may also be gaining muscle... just relax

But if you're cutting them out because of 'sugars' then you are being silly.

I don't want an excess of carbs / sugars, I do eat berries which are much lower in these things, but for example one banana would be about half my daily carbs and as they have 93% of their calories from carbs they don't fit with the balance I'm looking for.

Commercial diet companies do tend to have one focus, I suspect the consultants are on commission or making a markup on the products in many cases.

Fruit juice without added sugar is still full of carbohydrates and sugars, maybe you have a blind spot.

One large orange - 17g of sugar (184g fruit)

Orange juice, unsweetened, canned - 1 cup - 22g of sugar (249g juice)

so it's a bit more dilute in the fruit, but it's the same thing.

Fruit juice without added sugar is still full of carbohydrates and sugars, maybe you have a blind spot.

One large orange - 17g of sugar (184g fruit)

Orange juice, unsweetened, canned - 1 cup - 22g of sugar (249g juice)

so it's a bit more dilute in the fruit, but it's the same thing.

Fruit doesn't equal fruit juice. There is NOTHING wrong with eating fruit and it is part of a well balanced diet. If you want to cut out this important part of your diet that's your loss.But it is terrible advice.

Fruit doesn't equal fruit juice

There's a bit more fibre in the whole fruit, but most of the nutrition is in the juice.

Did you read the numbers ? what's the big difference between fruit and fruit juice ?