Need diet and exercise advice!!

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I'm not overweight at all but just like to eat healthily and exercise. I'm 5'2 and weigh 8 stone (about 112lbs). At the moment, I've been doing a high protein, low carb diet. I've been doing this for almost 6 weeks now and I don't feel any different. On a normal day, I eat scrabbled egg for breakfast, chicken, bacon and cheese with lettuce and mayonnaise for lunch and lamb chops and lettuce and mayo again for dinner. In between, I tend to snack on things like low-carb chocolate bars, pork scratchings, etc, anything low in carbs. The thing is, the only reason I've been doing this diet is to lose body fat so that I can see the results from the work I put in at the gym. So far, I haven't really seen any difference and I'm getting really disheartened with it all.

Can I go back to a low calorie diet and, if I work hard enough in the gym, see the results? My goal is to have a body like Britney Spears when she is in shape (like when she did the video for Slave 4 U song). Is this achievable on a low cal diet as opposed to low carb?
 
For maintenance, eat 1951 calories a day. For fat loss, eat 1500 a day. Try for 40 percent of your calories coming from carbs, 40 percent from protein, 20 percent fat. Make sure you eat as clean as you can (natural foods, as little refined sugars as possible, stay away from anything made from enriched flour, white bread, rice etc).
 
Agree will Allen---

Also, I would stay away from bacon, cheese (processed that is), mayo, pork (what is scratchings??).... keep up the chicken and eggs, maybe throw in some eat-beaters or pure eggs whites, add some oatmeal, yams and brocolli as well...they are good forms of complex carbs
 
Is it possible to get a well toned body doing just a low calorie diet and putting in more effort at the gym? I've been doing a low carb diet (allowing myself no more than 60g of carbs per day) for the past 6 weeks but I find it really difficult to stick to. And I find, if I have a cheat day, which I always do with a low cal diet, I put on weight which I really don't want.
 
If you want to lose fat, you have to have a well-balanced diet - that means eating sufficient amounts of fats, carbs, and protein. Cutting carbs is not the way to go, especially in the long run. Definitely stop snacking on the "low-carb" foods, like the chocolate bars and anything else.
Eat protein with every meal, and eat really healthy carbs like oatmeal, brown rice, sweet potatoes, etc.

Do a search on the forum for clean diets and meal plans and such and you'll find a lot of ideas on what to do.
 
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