Can salt , not enough water and to much diet drinks halt weightloss?

TonyPillz

Just curious and to what length could they destroy someone's weight loss?

vismal

weightloss, yes fatloss, no. High sodium with poor hydration can cause you to retain water and thus not lose weight, but most people aren't concerned with losing water so much as they are concerned with losing fat.

ana3067

No. You might get bloated and retain water.

RHachicho

Dude please just stop focusing on minute details. I made the same mistake for quite a long time. And although I had success it wasn't due to restricting salt or anything like that. It was simply that I ate moderately enough and exercised well enough. I am sorry but if you aren't losing weight then you aren't trying hard enough. Eat a bit less, Eat a bit better (Nutrition wise .. reasonable amounts of salt are good for you), Move a bit more. Repeat until weight loss happens. It really is that simple.

Sued0nim

they can't

you might retain water weight with the salt and lack of drinking fluids

and diet drinks - why would that impact on anything?

flumi_f

vismal wrote: »

weightloss, yes fatloss, no. High sodium with poor hydration can cause you to retain water and thus not lose weight, but most people aren't concerned with losing water so much as they are concerned with losing fat.

^^this

And if you increase your water and potassium intake again, the retained water and sodium will go away very quickly. Grain carbs also cause me to retain water.

BigGuy47

Keep it simple. Eat less than you burn.

earlnabby

TonyPillz wrote: »

Just curious and to what length could they destroy someone's weight loss?

Destroy: NO!

Temporarily halt or make you temporarily gain: yes.

As vismal said, it will temporarily affect weightloss, but will not affect fat loss.

Turning_Hopes_to_Habits

I can emphatically and with certainty say: Not for me. But my salt intake is consistently high. I love salt. My doctor and I talked about it, and he says that every one of my diagnostics came back perfect this time (yay MFP! ) and that not everyone is sensitive to salt. I told him I've been tracking and I get a little more than double the daily recommended allowance. He said not to worry about it unless my blood work changes or I start swelling.

So, it seems to me that if you always eat the same amount of salt, it's not going to impact the scale. Maybe if you're not used to it and eat a lot, you'll retain water and that will throw the scale off, but not over a long period of time. A few days to a week at most, I'd think.

I can't speak to diet sodas, except to say I know people who swear the diet soda pulls them off track of their diets and they feel a lot better and lose weight easily when they give it up. But there are plenty of people here on MVP and in real life who have lost tons of weight drinking diet soda.

As far as the drinking water, I personally go with those who say that the importance of water intake has been grossly overestimated. It will not help with weight loss over time unless it's being used to ward off eating. But all else being equal, water won't help you lose more weight. That means it can't stop you.

So, none of those things - too much salt, too much diet soda, and/or too little water - will have much of an impact at all on weight loss.

glassyo

Is it possible to retain water if you're not drinking it because, I gotta say, when I was on Weight Watchers I ate an extremely high sodium diet and didn't drink water at all and I lost weight perfectly fine.