I'm not doing my diet right

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Unless you attend the gym every day, basically every woman over the age of 25 have to eat very little in order to stay slim and remember to do exercise all the time.

It's so hard. I've been dieting for about a month now and I've been sticking with it using a reliable app to count the calories each day.
I've cut right down on sugar and I haven't eaten chocolate, full-fat milk, fast food, cakes or biscuits or other fattening food like that since I started my diet, and I've been buying weightwatchers/low fat meals and eating fruit and vegetables and not snacking between meals, except for a few grapes or drinking water. I don't eat much bread but if I do I eat the lower calorie brown bread.

I'm not really into exercising and I can't afford the gym, but I do walk a lot and I walk fast too. But I still don't seem to be losing the weight. If I cut out anything more I will end up barely eating at all. It's frustrating because even the lowest calorie lunch still add up, and I need a bit of salt or sugar in my daily intake because I feel like passing out otherwise.

How do people do it? Do I have to burn off more calories than I consume each day? How does one do that? I probably burn a lot of calories off at work too as my job is rather active.

I've never been this fat before, I'm naturally a skinny person and rather tall, so I thought I'd be able to take it off easily, and I'm not that old yet.
If I walk 2 miles and burnt say 100 calories, is it OK to take off 100 calories from my consumed calories and treat myself with an extra yoghurt or cereal or extra sauce on my dinner? Because I sometimes do that. But I'm starting to think that is not the right thing to do.

I think it's easy to get carried away with dieting, and that diet and exercise have to go together. Of the two, honesty I think some amount of exercise might be more important than any amount of dieting. Other than reducing or eliminating my intake of sugary foods, I have no experience with dieting. I do notice that as I get older my metabolism seems to be slowing down, and if I'm not exercising I notice the effects more.
If I haven't been exercising regularly, I don't have to eat as much. My body just doesn't need it. I'm colder more often, I don't sleep as well, my mood isn't as good, my focus isn't as good. Overall it has a negative impact. If I am exercising regularly, say an hour per day, I have to eat a lot more. I'm hungry all the time, and my body burns off everything. And overall I feel better.
I think it's easy to exercise wrong, though. Without some kind of training or guidance, it's easy to hurt yourself while trying to make yourself better. I don't think it really takes a lot of exercise, really, but a little bit of good exercise early in the day. It will engage your body and make it burn throughout the day.
Mostly, just be careful with your body. Listen to it. If it hurts, don't do it! No pain, no gain is wrong. Training shouldn't hurt. It's about how not to get or be hurt. It should be a little bit uncomfortable, though.

I'm a little bit out of it right now, so I'm sorry if this post doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Some women have faster metabolisms than others

They didn't do anything correct and get an award.

They just happen to be naturally skinny smart attractive or what have you

Whatever

Yes, if you want to lose weight you need to eat less than you burn. So, if you treat yourself for exercising, you may not lose any weight.

I cook small portions for myself. I'll buy a nice steak at the market and cut it in half for two meals. I typically cook 4 to 6 oz of meat. I usually cut away the bones and save meat scraps for tacos.

I'm just getting frustrated with myself because it is sometimes hard to focus on dieting (although I'm doing my best), and even if I haven't exercised I still feel hungry. I do enjoy eating, but if I want to be slim again I have to keep this up for the rest of my life.

But say I ate something that was 100 calories, and I done some sort of exercise that burnt off 100 calories, then I'd be back to having 100 calories less as though I never consumed those 100 calories.

You can only be in a mild calorie deficit or else your body may start to go into starvation and lower your metabolism as a result.

I'm only drinking water and avoiding all other drinks during Lent. It wasn't my intention to lose weight this way but I'm down a full size dress since 26 February, with no other changes to my diet.

In the past when I wanted to lose weight I cut carbs and went keto. It worked really fast. Counting calories doesn't seem to work well for women of childbearing age because their metabolism tries to hoard calories for reproduction. I'm not a dietician and I don't know much about food chemistry, but high protein / fat and low carb does work. It's also good for cholesterol.

Perhaps you should see your doctor for advice if you're having difficulty.