How long does it take sodium to flush out?
WalkingGirl1985
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Some days im just extremely high on Sodium and on those days i down the water afterwards the night before a weigh in...sometimes it works, sometimes for me it doesn't. My sodium was over 4000 yesterday..I know..it was bad..i was up over 2lbs this morning..i know the sodium was a part of that...how long do you think it takes the water to process to take the salt off in your body? I guess it takes more then 12 hours.
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it can take up to 48 hours .. depending on the how fast your system is.0
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sometimes i use a sauna suit when i walk or jog. it helps just got to drink plenty of water0
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it can take up to 48 hours .. depending on the how fast your system is.
Experience tells me it can take even longer than 48 hours unless you drink huge amounts of water.0 -
It took me four days to lose the sodium from Thanksgiving I'm back on track now ! Its crazy what sodium does!!!! ;/0
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It took me four days to lose the sodium from Thanksgiving I'm back on track now ! Its crazy what sodium does!!!! ;/
Same for me...0 -
if I consume my mother-in-law's cooking, DAYS.... DAYS I tell ya!!!!!!!!!! It just aint right... ugh! (LOL)2
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if I consume my mother-in-law's cooking, DAYS.... DAYS I tell ya!!!!!!!!!! It just aint right... ugh! (LOL)
this made me laugh. :laugh:0 -
wear lots of clothing while you work out, but drink water too.0
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if I consume my mother-in-law's cooking, DAYS.... DAYS I tell ya!!!!!!!!!! It just aint right... ugh! (LOL)
this made me laugh. :laugh:
Sad part is.. .its the truth.... I stopped eating her meals about 10 years ago.. between the sodium, the food poisoning episodes... UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!0 -
if I consume my mother-in-law's cooking, DAYS.... DAYS I tell ya!!!!!!!!!! It just aint right... ugh! (LOL)
this made me laugh. :laugh:
Sad part is.. .its the truth.... I stopped eating her meals about 10 years ago.. between the sodium, the food poisoning episodes... UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Remind me never to come round for dinner!0 -
if I consume my mother-in-law's cooking, DAYS.... DAYS I tell ya!!!!!!!!!! It just aint right... ugh! (LOL)
this made me laugh. :laugh:
Sad part is.. .its the truth.... I stopped eating her meals about 10 years ago.. between the sodium, the food poisoning episodes... UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Remind me never to come round for dinner!
Sounds like a plan! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHA0 -
as long as your body needs to rebalance. Just make sure you keep up the water, and add some potassium rich foods (pretty easy to do).0
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if I consume my mother-in-law's cooking, DAYS.... DAYS I tell ya!!!!!!!!!! It just aint right... ugh! (LOL)
:laugh: OMG, I feel the same way! She put out a vegetable just for me this year! :laugh:
It was in a can, but hey, it's a start.......0 -
Took me about 3 days to get rid of all that Sodium.0
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as long as your body needs to rebalance. Just make sure you keep up the water, and add some potassium rich foods (pretty easy to do).
your body uses aldosterone to flush out potassium - and recoup sodium. You would ideally want low potassium and high sodium plus lots of water then your body will not produce aldosterone for a little bit in order to retain potassium and kick out the excess sodium and water.
just drink a lot of water - if you are high on water then your body wont produce any aldosterone and you will flush out all the excess sodium --> sodium leaves your body in direct proportion to water, your renal clearance is a ratio of your sodium and BUN so the higher your renal clearance (how effective your kidneys are) the faster you will dump the extra sodium - so its going to vary from person to person - but anywhere from 24-72 hours
wearing a sauna suit is dangerous - sweating a lot will help but it also will cut down blood flow to your kidneys so its a catch22 - just make sure to rehydrate really well if you do a big sweat session1 -
Don't try to flush it out too quickly. Remember, sodium is an essential mineral for life (it's at the basic cellular level). But it's the BALANCE that is important. Too much or too little can be dangerous; that's why the body retains water when you have too much sodium (because it's the concentration that matters). So trying to flush it too quickly with lots of excess water can be potentially dangerous (granted, it would probably take a lot of excess, but water intoxification is a real thing even if I can't spell it today). Better to stay lower on the sodium (not always possible, I know, I love sodium too) and then up the water some but not a lot on the days you've gone over. It's not the # on the scale that really matters anyway, that's just one way of measuring your progress.0
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a nice long run usually does it for me.0
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if I consume my mother-in-law's cooking, DAYS.... DAYS I tell ya!!!!!!!!!! It just aint right... ugh! (LOL)
Same here!!! Mother in law has the best cooking but I pay for it for days!!
With that being said, 4000 is 2 days worth of sodium!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very dangerous. I recommend finding more low-sodium alternatives.0 -
For me, the scale doesn't drop again for 2-3 days after heavy sodium consumption.0
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Anywhere from 2-4 days for me.0
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When I binge eat and don't eat what I normally eat (ice cream, poptarts, fatty foods, all high sodium) I gain about 5lbs. But I usually binge it for a couple days in a row (I know, I am working on it.) I usually weigh my normal weight again and am no longer bloated 3 days and work outs later.0
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Keep chugging down the water. Also eat potassium rich foods as potassium counteracts to sodium0
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it can take up to 48 hours .. depending on the how fast your system is.
Experience tells me it can take even longer than 48 hours unless you drink huge amounts of water.
It really depends on HOW MUCH you drink that will determines how fast the sodium goes down.0 -
take a pee...it should clear you right out0
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lol0
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Wow, the rehetoric of 4000 sodium is dangerious...I have trouble getting mine below that.0
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It takes me about 4 to 5 days if it is really high in sodium. I don't eat a lot of foods high in sodium so my body loves to hang on to it =(0
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I experienced nearly the same exact thing you did. Yesterday i weighed in, in the morning at 207.6 lbs. Today i weighed in at 209.4 lbs in the morning on the same conditions.. I had ALOT of sodium yesterday but i was still under my max amount of calories for the day. Do you think if i didnt consume alot of sodium for the next 2 days and i keep everything else , such as my calories, in check then will i be less weight 2 days from now.??????????????? And i also forgot to mention i have been very active during the time frame mentioned0
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actual studies on the topic
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jch.13353
https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/4638310 -
It's a thread from 2011 and 2014 . . . let's hope the salt has flushed out by now, for anyone who's posted on the thread before today.5
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