sodium

daniellejg

How much sodium should I be consuming? I realized I don't actually pay attention to sodium content, I've only been worrying about calories, carbs, fat, and protein.

jhardenbergh

the daily allowance used to be 2500 mg, I think it was just lowered to 1500 though

bigmommy2011

I think it is 2,500

adjones_21

You can go in and change your settings to where it will show up on your diary. I have a hard time with sodium too.

beastmode_kitty

It's 2500. I struggle to keep it at that.

bunnyb11

my food and calorie tracker say 2500 sodium calories a day. But im not sure it is the same for everyone.

Good luck on your journey!!!!

fitnezrox

Ideally you should try and stay within 1500mg per day. Also tracking your sugars helps, as both of these can't stall weight loss. Just go to your food diary and add in sodium and sugar from your settings......you just might be surprised how much of each you consume in a day!

Have a happy and healthy night
Kim

GoldenGirl1979

mfp allows 2500mg a day, but i try to stay under 1500mg... you can add sodium to ur food diary, so you can keep track of it!! good luck

anewattitude

Its best to not exceed 1500mg. MFP has it set way too high at 2500mg!

daniellejg

Thanks everyone! I went in and added sodium and holy cow! Today I went over on my sodium by 855mg! That is a crazy amount! I think I shall keep an eye on that now as well

nannyciriaco

I really struggle with my sodium too...I just don't know how to get it under control...there has to be some technique to staying within the aloowable sodium, but I am with most of you and I think even the 2500 it soo much, but I have some material from a nutricanist and I will check and see what she says....Oh, wait a minute pyramid.gov I think will also tell you...just looked it up and they say no more than 2300