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[quote=Anonymous]You're heading in the right direction -- give it another month and see how it goes!

I'm no expert, but I'd recommend keeping your carbs very low for another month, and if you can, going a bit further for the next few weeks by dropping all fruit and adding more non-starch veggies.

At the same time, try your best to up your protein even more and add some basic weight training (simple 5-8 lb weights + squats + planks) to build muscle.  Extra protein + additional muscle might improve your resting metabolic rate (meaning you'll burn a bit more calories each day).

On a related note, you said you're barely losing lbs. on the scale. But how does your body seem to you?  Are your clothes any looser, especially in the places where you most recently gained weight?  (Last on, first off).

FWIW, I've just started working with a doctor/nutritionist and am doing in-office weigh-ins every two weeks with a scale that measures actual weight as well as fat/muscle composition.  These first two weeks I've only seen 2 lbs. of total weight loss, but her machine says I've dropped 4 lbs. of fat and added 2 lbs. of muscle.  My clothes are definitely more loose around my waist/belly and my body seems a bit different.

Even so, this is the place where I've tended to give up in the past.  It's crazy hard to cut back on carbs (!) and I'd have interpreted the two lbs. as just fluctuating "water weight," so I'd deem it a waste.  But this time I'm sticking with it for  -- taking it two weeks at a time to see what happens.  Slow and steady is fine as long as it keeps moving in the right direction.  (FWIW my goal is to lose 20-25 lbs.)

Good luck![/quote]

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