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not enough sodium

jdbblz
jdbblz Posts: 2
edited February 18 in Food and Nutrition
Hi i am struggling for sodium on days when i feel i am eating healthily ? my diary on here hasnt been used in a while am hoping to use the account properly

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  • Health_Temple
    Health_Temple Posts: 93 Member
    I'm goin through this as well I just ate a few pickles and my friend suggested just addin natural sea salt to meals
  • ditditdee
    ditditdee Posts: 38 Member
    The sodium goal is generally viewed as an upper limit, something not to go over.
  • FatBlackUgly
    FatBlackUgly Posts: 5
    I have the opposite problem! Everything I eat is packed with salt.
  • jdbblz
    jdbblz Posts: 2
    thanks guys I know if you have low sodium and excersise a lot you can get ill as you sweat a lot of sodium when you work out soi was pre worrying it seems that a bit of marmite is helping to top it up
  • tmaryam
    tmaryam Posts: 289 Member
    If you measure the table salt you add to your food and not just the sodium on your labeled foods, you might notice a big difference. I noticed an enormous difference, but I love salt and it keeps my BP up. Explains the water weight fluctuation too.
  • Health_Temple
    Health_Temple Posts: 93 Member
    The sodium goal is generally viewed as an upper limit, something not to go over.

    That may be true, but when you can't use your phone because your thumbs are shaking so much haha you may have a sodium deficiency! My friend was on ideal protien diet for a while and was instructed to add natural sea salt to her
    Chicken and veggies, and told me that was probably my problem, low and behold 5 pickles later and up to almost a
    Gram of salt I was no longer shakey!
  • kuolo
    kuolo Posts: 251 Member
    Just add salt to your food. Or eat a few olives or pickles. I have had a similar problem in the past. Not hard to fix.
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