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sodium ... anyone have low sodium intake?

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  • Posts: 6,490 Member


    i dont like you !!! lol jk ... i used to eat that way in moderation.... but i started to eat clean because my husband wasnt on the same page and it was hard. Now he is on the page i was on 2 yrs ago and well i lost it ... lost the drive and well moderation is not something i can do right now so i took it all out and well started eating clean .... i think i will go back to moderation once i am strong enough to stop after one slice or half a slice of cake.... i cant lie to myself now cause i would only cheat me.

    Fair enough. I've been there so I do understand. Just buy some iodized salt for the table! lol
  • Posts: 89 Member

    Unless you found very hard to find no sodium chicken, it has sodium in it:
    http://www.cookinglight.com/eating-smart/nutrition-101/sodium-in-chicken-00412000070041/

    Only the Lemon and Ms Dash dont' have sodium (Ms Dash uses Potassium instead). Everything else has sodium in it.

    But I'd make sure. Like has been said eating under 600mg of sodium is flat out dangerous.

    i have about 4 oz at lunch and 4 at dinner and well you are right its not adding the sodium for the chicken ... and i am sure there is some in chicken
  • Posts: 262 Member
    Funny, I am sitting here googling low sodium foods, I need lunch ideas, I aim for under 1500, and its a huge struggle for me.
  • Posts: 89 Member
    Funny, I am sitting here googling low sodium foods, I need lunch ideas, I aim for under 1500, and its a huge struggle for me.


    i dont eat much processed foods .... i eat bland
  • Posts: 1,870 Member
    My doctor told me that sodium in a healthy body will be processed with out concern. It is only un-healthy bodies with diet and exercise limitations that should worry about sodium. I have no idea what that means, but I felt liberated! I hated low sodium, it made me feel like I was on a diet. Yay! Now I am eating all the sodium that fits what I what I want to eat. Some days it is higher, some days it is lower.
  • Posts: 283 Member
    I am on a modified diet and after 3 months of learning, I rarely break 1200mg. The human body only needs 500mg of sodium a day. I cannot believe you are only getting 1100mg a week. Not with how much hidden sodium there is in food. Naturally occurring sodium in a week's worth of meat would add up to more than that.

    Methinks you may have been using entries that don't have sodium listed. It's one of my banes, because most people just input the calories and fat. I don't track fat, but if I add a food to the database, I will put ALL of the nutrition info, darnit.
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