Why am I not losing weight?

Question

I've been going to gym fairly regularly since May. I try go every second day, sometimes every third day. I didn't go at all last week but I went Saturday, yesterday and today.
I burn anything between 250-500 calories depending on whether I'm also doing weights or not, which I do once or twice a week.
But I have lost only 2kgs. TWO KILOGRAMS ONLY. My eating habits haven't changed very much but it's not like I'm eating junk every day. Sometimes not even during the whole week. I mean we had McDonalds on Saturday but that was the first takeaways we've gotten in weeks.
I haven't even dropped centimetres. I'm still squeezing into my jeans. My bum shape has changed a bit but that's it.
I've now started drinking smoothies every day (making myself, with water or yoghurt)- will that help at all?
At this stage it's like why am I bothering going to gym when it's not doing anything for me.
*I want to add that I'm not just using the same cardio machine either. I sometimes primarily use the treadmill, other times the rowing machine, sometimes I go for equal calories on numerous machines, etc.

Answer

They say weightloss is 80% food and 20% exercise. But I think it’s more like 95/5. If you don’t change the way you eat, you won’t see the results you want. You may be eating healthy food but you can still eat too much of it.

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You're eating too many calories and not burning enough calories.
Gotta burn more than you eat.  It takes 3500 calories burned to burn one pound (7700 to burn one kilo).
Gonna have to buckle down and actually track your food intake as well if you wanna lose at a faster rate. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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You need to eat quality food; veggies and lean protein mostly. There's a difference between a pasta salad with a yellow pepper thrown in vs a chicken breast over a bed of kale with a side of broccoli. 
Be careful with smoothies, fruit has a ton of natural sugar and if you have a job where you sit a lot, by the time you get to the gym in the evening you're not burning that sugar.

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I would try out a specific diet. Cutting out diary and bad carbs like bread often helps.

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Weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise (obviously a little different for everyone, but you get it. Eat less carbs and sugar and more protein, or count calories. There’s a lot of great apps to make this easy. And you should work out even if you aren’t losing weight because it’s healthy and your body needs it.

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I’m not a nutritionist nor a licensed personal trainer.
Have you thought about seeing a nutritionist? They are great help. 
When loosing weight you want to be on a caloric deficit where you are burning more calories than you consume. Also, remember that it’s 80% of what you eat and 20% of physical exercise. 
Personally, I don’t do the whole diet thing. In my opinion food isn’t the enemy and you should be able to enjoy the food you consume. After having my second baby I portioned size everything I ate. I would use the dishes my 9 year old uses when eating meals/snacks. I would still have my pizza, pastries, etc etc on a limitation only. I lifted weight 5x a week. 
Try to incorporate HIIT workouts (high intensity interval training).

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The trick is all in burning more calories than receiving. That means u could make ur food healthier, smaller portions more often in a day, some people like intermitent fasting-research it, no drastic diets. And movement, not only gym few times a week, but whenever u can take stairs instead of the lift, walk anywhere u can, if u use public transportation get off one stop earlier and so on...make it ur lifestyle and u will see the change, good luck!

Why am I not losing weight?

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