7. Eat Your Protein Before Your Strength Workout
Your chances of maintaining and gaining fat burning muscle are higher when you eat protein before your workout. Make it whey protein and you're even better off. Your body absorbs it more rapidly and uses it more efficiently. This will increase your muscle mass, decrease your fat stores, and make it much easier to re-shape your body. It's especially important for those with more than 100 pounds to lose.

8. Have Your Bodyfat Measured
Losing weight is awesome but sometimes when those number on the scale don't drop as quickly as expected you may feel discouraged. This is why it's important to measure bodyfat, because chances are you may still be losing inches and bodyfat which is a much better indicator of success. A person can lose 10lb and if it's mostly muscle and water, they won't look half as good or healthy as someone who loses 10lb of pure fat. Your body composition is just as important if not more important than your weight. If you're too embarrased to have someone measure, buy a scale and measure at home.

9. Split Your Cardio and Weights
When working with weights, warm-up by doing a light set of exercises like the ones you'll be performing, or walk for 10 minutes before your workout. Resist the temptation to tack on some cardio before or after your strength workout. When you're calorie intake and carb intake are low, your body can only handle so much activity. If you demand too much of your body it will fight back by attacking your muscle mass, your most precious commodity. If you must do strength and cardio workouts the same day at least separate the workouts. Cardio in the morning and weights at night or pilates in the morning and cardio at night.

10. Vary Your Workouts
This applies whether you're low-carbing it or not. In the beginning your body will respond to just about anything so take advantage of that. After 3-4 weeks (some people adapt as quickly as 2 weeks) you NEED TO CHANGE YOUR EXERCISE PROGRAM or you will stop getting results. With cardio try different types of activities and different lengths of intervals. With weights, try all types of resistance, including: cables, machines, balance ball, dumbbells. You can also change exercises, number of sets, reps, or tempo. With core and flexibility training continue to challenge yourself with different classes or dvd's. Change your program at least every 4 weeks.

11. Asses Your Needs
If you really enjoy exercise and feel that your low-carb plan is not providing enough energy for you to perform all your favorite activities, you may want to re-asses your needs and find a plan that works for you. There are many moderate carb plans that are better for more active individuals. The zone, protein power, the l.a. shape diet, are still low-carb but may work better for your active lifestyle.