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" Question My problem is weight. I am 28 years old and extremely active.  I have always been involved in some sort of sport from a very young age, playing netball to a high standard at least three times a week. I have attended aerobic classes regularly for two years or more.  Until recently when I moved with my job I was a member of a swimming club training early in the mornings three times a week for an hour and then alternate evenings for 90 minutes.  Since moving with my job I started to have a personal trainer who really put me through my paces, I have started running occasionally, but more often than not spend my evenings at the gym attending classes or doing a cardio and weights workout.  I eat a healthy diet, not over doing the carbohydrates, although I probably used to eat too much pasta at one stage. I do not eat junk food, no chocolate and only a very occasional bag of crisps. I eat plenty of fruit and veg, enjoy fish and chicken.  I became concerned over my weight last summer and after trying, apart from my exercise, Weight Watchers diet and then Slimming World even if I stuck to it religiously I never lost any weight.  Now, to my understanding, exercise should increase your metabolic rate and therefore burn off calories more effectively. I know that muscle weighs more than fat and it&amp;#039;s not that I am concerned about the amount that I weigh, more what I look like.  I never seem to tone up at all either, no matter how much exercise I do.  Surely you can see that this is very frustrating for me when I&amp;amp;#8217;m doing all I can to try and overcome the problem.  In April I went to see my GP who suggested I go and have my thyroid checked to see if it was underactive and that was why I wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t losing any weight &amp;amp;#8211; this came back negative.  I went back then, along with my trainer to try and determine what my next step was &amp;amp;#8211; he suggested upping my exercise regime and decreasing what I eat &amp;amp;#8211; so I have done and still nothing happens.  Whilst I appreciate that it is not going to happen over night I have now been trying to do as he said for the last three to four months with no joy. I have recently started walking to work at least three times a week, which is three miles there and back.  The doctor won&amp;amp;#8217;t refer me to a dietician as I&amp;amp;#8217;m not &amp;amp;#8216;fat enough&amp;amp;#8217;. I&amp;amp;#8217;m at my wits end and beginning to get more and more frustrated as you can imagine.  I refuse to use any diet things such as Slimfast or Herbalife as I do not consider that is the correct way to be losing weight. I need some advice as I just do not know what to try next in order to tone up or lose any weight.    Answer I sympathise with you completely as you seem to be doing everything that any sensible doctor would ever advise to stay fit, to keep your weight down and to shape up.  Looking at your fitness regime I cannot fault you on this and in fact I would go so far as to wonder if you were doing so much that this is beginning to overtake your life and becoming something of a chore. It also appears that you are eating the right type and amount of food and have taken professional advice not just from a personal trainer but also from your doctor, who has carried out the obvious tests to rule out any underlying medical problem.  Your doctor has told you that you are not &amp;amp;#8216;fat enough&amp;amp;#8217; to be referred to a dietician. At 5ft 9in, and 137lbs, you are actually of normal healthy weight for your height.  I also agree that you should avoid slimming products and herbs as there is little evidence that they are useful in the long-term and can lead to unnatural eating habits.  I&amp;#039;d like to give you a pat on the back for having worked so hard and keeping fit and healthy and being of normal weight.  I realise that you would like to go one stage further and hear from me how you can trim down further, but I wonder if your expectations are too high?  If you&amp;#039;ve looked at what you&amp;#039;ve already achieved it is marvellous.  Many women would love to be in the position you are now. The time may now have come for you to accept that you have attained the best you possibly can given your genetic make-up and your natural constitution. Not everyone is born to look like a super model.  That slim, almost adolescent female look is as much inherited from one&amp;#039;s parents as it is created through sheer discipline and deprivation.  Some of the fittest athletes in the world never look svelte or particularly shapely yet nutritionally they were awesome. Take a look at your parents and ask yourself what did they look like in their heyday. The way you are now maybe the way nature intended you to be.  Short of cosmetic surgery, which might be disastrous for you, I would suggest you learn to live with what you have and the fitness you have achieved.  Don&amp;#039;t forget to enjoy life as well &amp;amp;#8211; this constant battle to achieve perfection sometimes simply isn&amp;#039;t worth it. Yours sincerely The NetDoctor Medical Team   Other Qs &amp;amp; As Are low carbohydrate diets safe? Can chrome and iodine supplements help me lose weight? Diets to lose weight and hypnotherapy Diethylpropion Herbal supplements to lose weight How can I change my attitude to weight loss? How can I get rid of fat thighs? How can I lose weight and boost my energy levels? How do I lose weight from the backside? How does Orlistat work? 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