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Rather than doing a low carb, maybe do a low starch diet. Cutting out breads, rice and grains but keeping or increasing your intake of fruits and veggies which are also sources of carbs. Carbohydrates are necessary for proper body function, so reducing them entirely is not usually a good idea.

You have to stop thinking of it as a reward for doing something. For weight loss to be lasting you need to stop thinking of an end goal or a finish date because when you get there you will go back to doing all of the things you used to and that will put all the weight back on. Ask yourself, do you want to be the kind of…

You don't need to drink less but you do need to eat more. Water is very filling and most people are dehydrated, but it is important to eat enough as well because otherwise your body will cannibalize your muscle.

A couple things that I noticed when looking at your food diary. It is more important to track protein than sodium. If you drink enough water your sodium level is not something you need to worry about too much, your body is designed to self regulate that. Track your protein because it is one of the three macro nutrients and…

Try caloric staggering. Take your recommended daily calories multiply by seven and then break it down so that some days you eat 1200 or 1300, some you eat 1500 or 1600 and some you eat 1800 or 2000.

You cannot gain muscle that quickly. Muscle is hard to build, and it is crazy to think anyone can build muscle as quickly as they lose fat. Weight gain from muscle building only happens when there is little to no fat left to lose. Otherwise your weight will go down. Saying muscle weighs more than fat is also incorrect. A…

First, don't weight yourself more than once a week. Your weight can fluctuate throughout the day because of water/food intake, exercise, how much salt you ate and just because of other metabolic reasons. Weighing yourself so often is going to increase your stress because of the crazy fluctuations and can actually be…