Is going over on protein,fiber and sodium.....OK??? Help

My understanding is if you are cutting back on carbs, adding some protein isn't bad. It will help you feel full longer so you won't want to snack so much. I agree that you should watch the sodium and they say that no one gets enough fiber.

protein and fiber I wouldn't stress about but sodium you want to keep under control. It is a learning process and it gets easier best advice is read those labels! Yes grocery shopping will take longer but it'll be worth it! Processed foods should be closely watched and definately not eaten at every meal. Canned foods and lunchmeats are FULL of sodium. Time to get fresh! I can't view your diary to give you more exact examples but you are welcome to add me and view my diary if you'd like. My sodium total for the day was 1,226 :drinker: If you did go way over in sodium then you NEED to go way over in WATER as well!
Good Luck You can do this!

I use my protein and fiber 'goals' as minimum targets, so I'd say you're good there. It's not tragic to go over sodium if you drink a TON of water to help wash it away, otherwise you'll end up gaining water weight. I've heard that cucumbers help with sodium overages too... I don't know, because I just plain love cucumbers so I eat them anyway LOL

Sodium has been my hardest adversary on my food log since I started, but I've found alternatives to most of my favorite foods that are lower in sodium than what I was eating, and now I'm considering dropping my goal to 2000 instead of 2500 just because staying under 2500 had such great results... but I've been fiddling with this since I joined so don't expect it to happen overnight. It's a process.

Good luck! =D

I don't think it matters about the protein or fiber but sodium can make you retain water and in some people (like me), raise blood pressure. I'm only supposed to have 1500mg or less and it's hard for me to stay under.
They used to say that a healthy person could get by with 2500 mgs of sodium per day but I think they may have dropped it to 1500. I'm not sure.
There are a lot of low calorie foods, pre-packaged, frozen, such as Healthy Choice or restaurant foods (Applebees for one) that have copious amounts of sodium. Some even have a lot of sugar in them to make up for the lack of fat. I'd not worry about the protein or fiber (although the former may cause a little gas! lol). I'd just watch the sodium and check labels. For me, it's easier if I just try to have no more than 500mg of sodium per meal.
Also once you cut back on sodium, you will get used to it. Sometimes I taste something that I used to ADD salt to and it gags me because it's so salty to me now! The plus side is that I'm learning how to cook food with flavor rather than sodium and it tastes sooo much better!
Good luck to you.

I've just started too. I noticed when I started tracking my food that I go quite a bit over on the sugar and a little on the fiber. I never realized before how much sugar I have in the run of the day (honestly thought I didn't have that much). But, I guess that's the point of the food diary....lol.

When I look at lables that is one of the things I look at now is the sodium count!

Just be careful with going over on fiber and make sure you are getting enough water to make sure it works the way it is supposed to. Fiber can only do its job if there is water to help. Other than that, sodium should be watched, and going over in protein is ok, IMO

Use common sense. Natural sodium is not as bad for you as artificial sodium. It's no secret that prolonged high sodium exposure has detrimental health effects. Be sure you drink a lot of water when intaking high amounts of sodium.

The FDA recommendation is 2500mg, but it is well known among us that do our own research that most "daily allowance" guidelines are rubbish. Go over on all vitamins and minerals, esp Vitamin C! I do 1000% a day! Go lower on sodium and carbs (than what the FDA says)

Over on protein & fiber = Great!

over on sodium = no good! try to avoid this -- makes you retain water.

What killed me on the sodium was the one cup of cottage cheese. I thought I'd get lots protein, which I did, but wow I did not look at the sodium. It was ton 880 mg. YUCK. I surely need to watch that, sodium for sure.

Look for reduced sodium version of cottage cheese - I found one, only has 200 mg same high protein

What killed me on the sodium was the one cup of cottage cheese. I thought I'd get lots protein, which I did, but wow I did not look at the sodium. It was ton 880 mg. YUCK. I surely need to watch that, sodium for sure.

Try Fiber One cottage cheese. It has about 440mg of sodium. I just recently made the switch. It also has 4g of fiber!

Go lower on sodium and carbs (than what the FDA says)

The fear mongering and idiocy continues.

You can customize the MyFitnessPal recommended percentages of carbs, protein and fat if you want to. Under your Home tab, there is a goals tab. Click that and manually reset your goals. It will keep all the automatically calculated information, but you can change the percentages, grams of fiber, or sugar, etc.

For instance, my doctor recommended a lower (not low) carb diet, so I set my goals to 35% carbs, 35% protein, 30% fat. I was tired of it bugging me about sugar if I ate any fruit, so raised my sugar grams, and raised my fiber setting as well. Sodium I left alone, but I have noticed it does make me retain water when I go over on sodium, so I weigh a pound or two more the day after.