Salt is the Devil!

That’s what I’ve decided anyway. I don’t eat a lot of table salt. As a matter of fact, I very rarely add any table salt to the foot I’m eating. But often there is a lot of salt already in the foods that we eat, especially if you eat out. Pre-packaged foods often have a lot of salt in them also.

I can remember a few seasons back on The Biggest Loser, Jillian had a team member who was working out like crazy and wasn’t overeating but could not seem to get his weight to go down. There was one small thing he wasn’t recording on his food logs because he didn’t think it really mattered. He was marinating his meats in soy sauce, which is absolutely loaded with salt. I thought Jillian was going to kill him. She had him cut out the soy sauce, and his weight starting melting off again. Problem solved!

This past weekend, I went out to eat with my mom a couple of times. I didn’t add any salt to any of my food at all, but I noticed that shortly after leaving the restaurants that my fingers were swelling and I felt bloated all over. WAY too much sodium! And I paid for it on the scale this week too! When I weighed myself Monday morning, I had gained three pounds back. I could still feel the swelling though and chose to wait until Tuesday before weighing in. All day Monday, I guzzled water trying to flush all the salt out. Tuesday, I found that I had gotten the scale to go back down some, but hadn’t lost any weight this week. :( I was hoping to get get down into the 220s this past week but it just didn’t happen. I’m pushing for it this week though!

So far this week I’m doing okay, but not fabulous. I still feel bloated and swollen some, but I’m guzzling water again today and I took a water pill. Three days later, I still feel like crap! THE DEVIL, I tell you! SALT IS THE DEVIL! I need to keep this in mind next time I want to go out to eat… that if I eat crap loaded with sodium, I’m going to feel like crap for days!

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