<human>: Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?

Hello all!

After being inspired by this subreddit, I finally made the decision to quit my whining and actually diet to lose that extra weight that I hate so much! Great news, right?

My big weakness has always been crisps (chips for the US and such. I'm in the UK). I don't have a sweet tooth so this is my main problem food. So, I needed to find a savoury snack to satiate my cravings.

So, instead, I've been eating salt and vinegar flavoured rice cakes. At just 40 cal I figured they were perfect and they've worked amazingly at keeping me away from crisps.

However, it's been about 2 months now (negating around a week over Christmas, unfortunately) of consistent calorie counting but nothing is changing. In fact, sometimes I even go UP in weight?! I'm just wondering whether the rice cakes, maybe the salt in them, could be hindering my progress?

The obvious answer is to cut more calories but I don't want to keep doing that to an unhealthy extreme when the problem could be them all along...

Thanks for any advice you can offer :)
<bot>: Could the salt in salt and vinegar flavoured rice cakes be making it hard to lose weight, even though they're only 40 calories?