I asked for a diet plan, got a lecture, and negotiated

Before the plan, one honest note: with those three constraints I can’t promise 5 kg on a timeline, and anyone who does is guessing. What I can do is give you rules that need no counting and don’t touch bread or breakfast.

The five rules

1. Bread stays. Butter, oil and cheese on the bread become “one of the three”, not all three.
2. Two plates a day, no snacks between them. The snack is the thing that quietly adds a third meal.
3. Every plate: half of it is something that was recently a plant and isn’t fried. You don’t count it; you look at it.
4. Drinks with calories are gone. Coffee and tea are fine, black or with milk. This alone is often the 5 kg.
5. Walk after the bigger meal. Fifteen minutes, phone in pocket.

Weigh yourself once a week, same day, same time. If nothing moved after three weeks, come back and we adjust one rule, not all of them.

Then keep them and make it rule 4b: lattes are the only calorie drink, and they’re part of the two plates — the morning one is your breakfast, which you said you skip anyway, so that’s convenient. No syrups, size stays the same. Everything else in rule 4 still applies. We’re negotiating like adults; that counts for something.