Hi Icarter, first from your picture doesn't look like you need to loose any weight. Is there a target weight your aiming for, some perceived ideal?
Weight loss is one of those things that effects people differently I can say what worked for me you may find it helps. I lost weight effortlessly by cutting out sugar.
The very simple idea is starve your body of sugar and it has to break down body fat.
It is supposed to take 18 hours for
an average non diabetic person to burn of the sugar stored in the liver by fasting alone.
IF you are topping up your blood stream with sugar
(even a small amount you mentioned 6 squares of chocolate and pepperamis. ) then when does the liver get a chance to deplete its glycogen stores? Low Carb should help heaps by reducing the amount of glucose you can produce from the food you eat but if your topping that up with sugar you are kinda of defeating the porpoise.
Not sure if being type 1
(or a dolphin) makes a difference, but it should work.