Originally Posted by Carbonfiberboy

Too much of everything. "Less is best." Cut your daily sodium way down. 1500mg is about right. My wife and I work to get about 3/4 tsp. salt/day between us, which is plenty, because there's sodium in many things. We don't eat anything processed or canned. Cut your drinking way down. That 8 glasses/day business is BS. Drink when you're thirsty.

Too much protein. 100g is more than enough. If you are protein supplementing, stop. If you are eating meat, cut it back to once/week. Cut it all back. Eat fruit, grains, vegetables. Put some protein back in after you stabilize. Just try to stop damaging yourself.

You aren't dehydrated. Hardly anyone is dehydrated. That got to be quite a fad, now discredited. Those knots in your legs are probably damage you've caused by poking at them. Leave them alone, let them heal. Which is going to take some time. Just ride 1/2 hour/day, easy, for a couple of weeks. Eat your vegetables.