Advice on weight

Hello all!,

I'm currently having difficulty shifting any weight. I'm not over-weight but would ideally move from 10st 10 (71kg or 154lbs) to 10st flat. I'm female, my height is 5'8". I train in aikido 4 hours a week and currently go to the gym twice a week doing 20mins of cardio and 40 mins weight training. For the past 4-5 weeks I have started a healthy eating plan which consists of the following:

8am:
Homemade museli (porridge oats, dried prunes, apricots, sultanas, apple, hazelnuts, walnuts, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds) with semi skimmed milk.

10.30am:
1 orange and a small handful of mixed seeds and nuts (brazil, hazelnuts or almonds unroasted and unsalted).

12.30pm:
Ranges from homemade soup with wholemeal bread, jacket potato with beans, or a cottage cheese and rocket wrap etc.

1.30:
1 apple

2.30pm:
2% fat yoghurt

3.30pm:
A plum or a kiwi and another small handful of mixed seeds and nuts.

Dinner (usually 6.30-7pm):
Tofu stirfry, a bean dish with rice, soya protein mince and pepper fahitas with baked sweet potato wedges, or a pasta bake as examples (I'm veggie).

Throughout the day I consume 1.5-2.5 litres of water, one cup of tea, and a glass of juice and on occasion a glass of milk (semi-skimmed). I also make smoothies about 2-3 times a week.

At the weekend I usually have a treat like a pizza or some chocolate (1 average sized bar) and betrween 2-4 glasses of red wine.

I feel fit as a fiddle and have bags of energy but am still seeing no shift in weight and infact seem to have but on 0.5lb (not much I know but it is still an increase).

Can anyone provide any pointers as to where you think I might be going wrong? Am I over doing it on the carbs? I'm I just being impatient...I just haven't noticed any difference in my weight of the past month or 2 since changing my eating habits...not that they were bad before, I just had the odd biscuit during the week and not really enough fresh fruit or water.

Thanks in advance!

Well, I'd like to know why you even want to lose weight. I'm 5'7" and about the same weight, and it seems fine.
Since you are fit and have lots of energy and are exercising and eating well, I don't see the issue with the numbers. I assume you are probably more muscular than most women, so your fat percentage is probably at a good level. If you tried to lose #'s it might just be a loss of muscle mass.
That's my opinion of the matter.

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I'm currently having difficulty shifting any weight. I'm not over-weight but would ideally move from 10st 10 (71kg or 154lbs) to 10st flat.

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For what purpose?

If you are lean, feel well and live an energetic and full life, then why on earth does it matter what you weigh?

If you are weight training as intensly as it sounds, combined with your other activities, you probably have a higher muscle density, and importantly, bone density than an inactive female. There is simply more of you.

If this desire has come from a recent investigation of your BMI, then I beg you to put it out of your mind. Height/weight charts and calculations often give less than flattering results to the active. An extreme example of this would be a professional bodybuilder, in contest shape (3% body fat approx), being 5' 10" and around 260lbs would come out as obese in a medical exam relying on BMI It simply takes no account of what the weight is comprised of.

Think hard about your motives, and understand that by taking measures to lose weight needlessly you could well compromise what seems a healthy happy life balance.