What should I do to my diet to lose 1.5 stones?

If you just do cardio though you'll lose muscle as well, if you team both cardio and weights you'll get a 'toned' look. Also losing 'weight' doesn't really matter, you can be heavier but fitter and healthier due to muscle weighing more than fat. The best way to tell if you have 'lost' and are getting fitter is to measure bust, waist and hips and keep a record of them.

You need to improve your diet without losing weight. The two don't have to coincide.

But my main aim is to lose weight.

I swear every single thread on the Fitness forum about girls getting into shape descends into a 'CARDIO AND CRUNCHES' vs 'YOU MUST LIFT WEIGHTS!!!' argument.

But you shouldn't lose weight, because your weight is healthy. Why do you want to lose weight?

1) don't skip breakfast
2) don't eat so much toast, or at least make it brown bread/wholegrain something or other (white bread is no good)
3) eat at regular mealtimes, eating your dinner at midnight will throw your body clock off and could slow down your metabolism (especially if you go to sleep shortly after, your body won't have a good chance to digest everything)
4) eat more veg!
5) take heed of all this advice if you really think you need to loose weight, but from the descriptions you gave of yourself it sounds like you're healthy enough.

The thing about eating at night is a complete myth, by the way.

Seriously! Does that mean I can still eat my main meals at night yet lose weight at the same time?

Well, you should be eating little and often throughout the day, rather than just one huge meal at night and one huge meal in the day, as it sort of seems to be now. But restricting your intake after a certain hour of the day and things like that, don't make any difference. As long as you're eating the right amount and the right things, reasonably spread across the day, it doesn't matter when exactly.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3263249.stm

Ah, I see. Well, that's great news for me.
I'll try to eat more often but with smaller portions.

Good plan. And more balanced portions too!

As in healthier?

Yeah - a more varied meal, consisting of some protein, some carbohydrate, some vegetables, etc. Rather than four pieces of toast, which is just all carbohydrate, or pizza which has pretty much zero vegetable/mineral content. I'm not a dietician or anything, but living things just need variety, and you don't seem to be getting much. It seems like you're not going to be getting enough vitamins and minerals, because you seem to eat little or no fruit and veg. And if you are only having one rounded meal a day, you might not be getting enough protein either. Have you thought about seeing a dietician, just to get some general overall advice about your diet?

old wives tail is that

its all about the cals you have during the day not when you eat

breakfast is how your body knows to wake up.