Let's start with the goal, and work backwards. At your height, 118 lbs is a BMI of 19.0.
Until for god knows what reason, the range for "normal" BMI was broadened downward, 19.0 was considered underweight: "normal" was 20.0-24.9.
So, you are very close to your goal, and, in reality, you are well within a normal BMI at your current weight.
One of the phenomena that is seen with people going back and forth between a weight loss routine, eating the junk that gained them the weight in the first place, and the weight loss routine is that successive returns to the weight loss routine take longer to "stick."
What I'd recommend, based on seeing your normal day, is this: eat a substantially bigger breakfast. At least two eggs, some other fattiness, whether by frying the eggs in a good amount of fat, or scrambling them with cream, or both. (I do both.) You should not, on a LCHF WOE, be hungry so soon after breakfast. The fact that you are leads me to believe that you aren't eating enough to get into and stay in ketosis at this point.
Again, at lunch, more food. More food at dinner, and you can skip that nasty, artificial Atkins bar.
When I changed from eating a light breakfast to my current one, first, I stopped needing a snack. Then, more slowly, I stopped needing lunch. And at this point, I probably need a small something or another (cheese, a piece of bacon, 1/4 cup of nuts) 5 days out of seven, somewhere between breakfast and dinner.
Do you know if you are in ketosis? Sweet smelling urine, sweet taste in your mouth are good indicators, as is frequent urination. Speaking of urination: are you drinking lots of water, and mostly water, not tea, coffee, artificially sweetened sodas?
If you can commit to this WOE as a lifetime change in your eating habits, you can lose weight. Because you are already at a healthy weight, perhaps what might happen is that, rather than weight, you will primarily lose fat. But as muscle is denser than fat, do you agree that weighing, say, 130, but being more muscular, is preferable to being a fluffy 118?
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