Sodium Topic

HarryRear 03/03/13
Hey all,

Just started using MND this week and I'm shocked as to how much sodium I've been in taking. Most comes from processed food as I never add salt to anything. I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions, my wife and I both work and make dinners using packaged rice noodles potatoes due to time constraints. Any suggestions would be great.

Olozada 04/09/13
Hello HarryRear,
What I've read so far is that if you are exercising as part of your weight loss journey, you need around 3500mg/day of sodium.

Sygmarich 04/19/13 replied to Olozada
Hope this helps, I day a week my family prepares tv style dinners mostly from scratch. We pick a couple if different proteins, rice pasta, or potatoes and then 3 other vegetables. 4 oz of protein, 1/4 cup pasta, rice or potatoes, 1/2 cup of beans, then 1/4 cup of the other 2 veggies. We use snapware containers because they freeze then microwave well, dollar store containers work well also. This method can help you control your sodium intake, I don't add additional salt to anything, just what the recipes call for

Jeyrry 06/02/13 replied to HarryRear
Did you make any progress on sodium? I noticed the exact same thing when I first started tracking. I stopped buying anything with more than a couple hundred mg of sodium in a serving. I do most of my cooking on the weekends using low sodium ingredients and then eat the food the rest of the week--turkey chili, potato and vegetable side dishes, different types of bean dishes etc., similar to the tv dinner suggestion except I haven't been freezing much, I just eat it over the next few days. That's worked out well and I don't have to spend much time cooking after work. I take the things for lunch too. Creates some repetitive meals but I don't mind that. I got my sodium average down to around 1700 mg, I'm trying to get to 1500.

Jeyrry 06/02/13 replied to Olozada
Olozada, I haven't seen recommended sodium numbers that high. I saw 500 mg minimum with max recommended of 2300 for most people and 1500 for those over 50 and some others. I did see that you need more if you are sweating out a lot of sodium but that the odds of not getting enough are low for most people.

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