Sodium... should I be concerned?

mexiana

Definitely agree that it's needed, but there is plenty of it in foods without adding extra! And yes, it's definitely water weight, but when you're trying so hard to lose and eating within those calories and then hop on the scale and see a 2-5 pound GAIN, it's hard to recover from mentally for a lot of people. Especially since a high sodium day can take a week to recover from. I don't completely avoid it, but I don't put it on anything I eat. I still get 1000-2500 mg a day though easily and the only thing I eat processed now is bread.