Weight-Loss Sodium

Weight-Loss
Does it matter if you are an active person? Do you need more sodium or less? How does it affect you? Just trying to learn so i don't mess things up.
 
for things like sugar, fat, and carbs etc. i'd say it would be based on calorie level but with sodium nobody should get more than 3,000 a day no matter what their activity level or calorie consumption amount.
 
High Sodium. Bad For Losing Weight?

I know that alot of sodium raises your blood pressure and stuff. But can it hinder weight loss?
 
When I was in Medical Weight Loss Clinic, I was told that although salt will not cause you to gain any weight, it will make you retain water, making your weight loss go more slowly.
 
What dream and Jely posted is right. But keep in mind that it's not hindering fat loss, just making you retain water, so the water weight is showing up on the scales.

Sarah
 
SarahPT said:
What dream and Jely posted is right. But keep in mind that it's not hindering fat loss, just making you retain water, so the water weight is showing up on the scales.

Sarah
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Right on the money.
 
SarahPT said:
What dream and Jely posted is right. But keep in mind that it's not hindering fat loss, just making you retain water, so the water weight is showing up on the scales.

Sarah
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This is correct - and fat loss it what is desired. Unless your getting ready for a comp show or your BP is high, sodium really shouldn't be an issue.
 
Salt/sodium intake??

Does anyone know how much salt/sodium you should have when you're trying to lose weight? I know I ate way too much today so I want to know how much to try to limit for tomorrow and the days to come. Thanks!
 
Sodium, I would think, is the single hardest thing to control after the calories themselves. You can consume ultra low calories, then end up consuming ultra high sodium in the process. What gives? I dunno. It just seems to me that you should not add salt to your foods, as there is already plenty, and make lower sodium purchases when possible. For me, the ultimate goal has been to eat less calories, less sodium is a close 2nd.
 
I think 1000-2000mg a day, but thats from percentage calculations from a calorie book, it would be different for everyone i guess. Hope that gives u an idea though.
 
Thanks so much for the replies. They do help! I might do the rice diet or at least follow it somewhat, and that should help me with my problem of eating too much sodium and not even realizing it! haha
 
yeah. i've heard the same thing. nothing over 2000 mg a day.
it's easy to track if you're using some sorta tracker like fitday.

and as I've found out... it's VERY easy to go over the 2000mg a day limit.
you wouldn't believe how salty we usually eat our foods.
now that i'm not oversaturating my food with salt, i have more of an appreciation to the natural flavours of vegetables and so forth.
 
When you consume excess sodium it retains excess water in your body that would normally be erinated out and does hinder weight loss. By limiting your sodium your fluids in your body will drain out normally keeping food and your fat burning systems at 100%.

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Question on Sodium

I was reading through the posts, and I saw campbells chicken soup listed as being so unhealthy due to it's high level of sodium.

That's something I would probably eat, in fact, I started to look at the things I do eat in a day. I'm pretty well over the daily reommended amount of sodium, and I'm on a reduced calorie diet making it worse. For instance, I really enjoy the taste of V-8 juice, and it fills me up. It has 880mg of sodium, that's like half of what you're supposed to eat in a day according to the label.

Is the only real side effect the dehydration that sodium could cause? I drink 10 16oz bottles of water daily, so basically 160oz of water, and I don't pee brown or anything. I've removed almost every unhealthy thing I eat, and frankly, if sodium has to go, I might just start eating grass out of the front lawn.
 
You would be amazed how many things have lots of sodium. Majority of all soups and can foods have tons of sodium. Your best beat is whole foods.
 
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