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High sodium days

callumwalker1995
callumwalker1995 Posts: 389 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I'm usually around 2000mg sodium per day yet today I hit 6000 thanks to eating out. How detrimental will this be? Do people experience greater bloat/water weight with such a high amount?

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  • heylance
    heylance Posts: 32 Member
    Sodium doesn't cause you to gain fat, just retain water. The scale will probably go up in a day or two but should come back down relatively quickly. Just drink A LOT of water to flush it out!
  • janicelo1971
    janicelo1971 Posts: 823 Member
    YES! i can gain 4-5 pounds in water weight....i eat high sodium way too much..fingers swell..etc...give it 24 hours and u will be back to gold!
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    edited August 2016
    I pulled in 9000 grams the other night, after I switched to bulk mode without changing the types of food I was eating. Other than the raging headache I had before bed, no after effects. I'd rather not have that three hour headache again though, so I recalibrated what I'm eating.
  • callumwalker1995
    callumwalker1995 Posts: 389 Member
    yeah I've drank more than normal tonight after eating it, I d didn't realise how high in sodium it was until I entered it on MFP and saw it as 4500mg :o
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    callumwalker1995 wrote: »
    I'm usually around 2000mg sodium per day yet today I hit 6000 thanks to eating out. How detrimental will this be? Do people experience greater bloat/water weight with such a high amount?

    Yep. Drink some water, move on.
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