Is anyone else here VERY salt sensitive?

I had to cut down on salt in my diet for medical reasons. It is extremely challenging. About the best thing I've learned is to substute salt for spicy. Or if you cut down on salt in your diet everywhere else you can indulge in a chip or two here and there.

Hi,

I empathize with you, I had a horrible time in my early twenties with salt and my health. It is a lifestyle change which will benefit you in the long run and which is very hard to make. Be patient with yourself and keep trying
I am very salt sensitive, the best strategies to cut salt out are
- not buying processed food or reducing the purchase of anything that comes in a can or box like canned good, boxed cereals, frozen meals
- cooking more simple meals at home - ex microwaving sweet potato and steaming veggies
- avoid chinese, japanese and fast food
- I eat my most fav fruit when I have a craving or cook low sodium version of what I am craving
- frying chips at home takes so much less salt than buying potato chips
- going to farmers market and purchasing few whole meals and groceries
- eating out 1 to 2 times a week and eating at places that take pride in providing a balanced meal and source the ingredients locally
- look at it one meal at a time and start with fruits for breakfast or ending with fruit for dinner

Hope the above helps

you have to eat at least 500mg of sodium a day unless you live in a hot climate then it is more.

how much are you currently having that causes you to swell up like this?

This is an old thread. There must not be many of us. I am salt-sensitive. I hold water so easily. It used to just be my legs. But now I awaken with a swollen face if I have too much salt. I have multiple food sensitivities, so eating dairy substitutes, for example, can put me in fluid retention mode. While generally trying to avoid it, I hadn't yet thought of the question asked here by gigglesinthesun, "How much salt are you eating that is too much?" That is such a great question. I have been assuming that simply having any processed foods is too much. That may be true, but by asking the question of "How much is too much so that I retain fluid overnight," I will be able to find out. The wisdom of logging works for answering other questions, such as "How much sugar is too much so that I get overly hungry?" So, logging against an outcome will help identify what the salt ingestion cutpoint is as well. Thank you gigglesinthesun!

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