You were looking pretty trim on the photo you posted on Facebook, boab.
I think the weights are making a difference to your shape and, by implication, your fat levels.
Losing fat is bloody hard work, especially if you want:
1) To keep the weight off - non-fat weight is easier to lose & gain but keeping properly lean is another matter!
2) To stay well enough to work, think and move and to resist frequent lurgies.
Running a consistent energy deficit can leave me hungry, obsessed by food, sleepy and constipated.
I can only really speak for myself. Weight loss might be 'simple' (especially if your mind oversimplifies matters).
It is NOT easy!
As a bunch, yacfers *are* less blobby than the general population. Stuck in a wheelchair, my eye level is rather close to people's belly levels. People seem to have ENORMOUS bellies nowadays!
Even if we are not losing as much weight as we would like (and I certainly am not), we are still making some progress avoiding the worst excesses of obesity.
Many of my former class or college mates are HUGE.
But the girl who married at 19 and had 12 children is a Size 8....
Keep going, boab; weight loss is not futile or hopeless.
It just IS NOT EASY!