askmenover30

Unfortunately, whatever you think is acceptable caloric intake is too much.

Other thing I'll call out is posture. If you slouch, you'll have more of a belly

Overweight comes from food mostly, training has a smaller effect on that. What helped me was to track calorie intake. I use the app "Waistline" for it. It also showed me that my protein intake was on the low side and I learned, that eating not enough protein makes me more hungry, which lead to eating too much calories.

If I were you, I would get a full hormone blood test done, incorporate some new stress management practices like daily meditation and consider some antiinflammatory additions to my diet like high EPA fish oil and/or CBD. In my experience, low carb certainly does show results also.

Even after all that, it's important to remember that everyone's body changes as it gets older, and to accept that you're doing the best that you can

Time to say goodbye to being young, there's no point in denying you're an old person now. Your body started failing you and it's going to get much worse. No energy, pain in random parts of your body. That's what being 35+ is.