Sodium...I hate you.
 

I can't tell if I'm super sensitive to sodium or if my weight spikes because it's too much.

I never add salt to my food. I never add any condiments with salt to my food. Nothing I eat comes from a package, box, or bag. Basically nothing processed and no meat which

However I went out to eat yesterday twice (out of town) and this morning I was up 2lbs. For lunch I had a small salad which had asparagus, apple and roasted hazelnuts. I shared it with my boyfriend. The dressing was lemon, olive oil seasoned with salt and pepper.

For dinner I had a macrobiotic plate with black beans (only ate a few bites of this), kale, pickled sauerkraut, pickled seaweed, quinoa and broccoli. I'm pretty sure there was salt on it when I got it. Is it possible that the pickled sauerkraut and seaweed had a lot of salt? Or did I really gain even though I ate pretty healthy food (didn't go over 1200 for the day).

Do you guys also spike up when you go out to eat? I keep telling myself it's salt but I want to be positive. So tell me feathers, does this happen to you?

Oh definatly. ANY time i go out to dinner even if I stay within my calories i somehow manage to go up like 2lbs and stay there for dayssss. I also never add salt to anything. Super frustrating I know how you feel.

Ummmm - anything that is pickled gets that way by being soaked in salt water or vinegar, so its highly likely that was the culprit!

I know it's so obvious especially with stuff being pickled but it's still so hard to trust that it's just that simple. Losing weight is a total mind game and I'm always losing! Thanks for cheering me up you two!

Let me cheer you up as well: I recently had a totally mysterious 2 lb. pop up in my weight, and I think now that it was TOTALLY due to indulging in diet soda for a couple of days, which I've been trying to avoid. Even that uptick in sodium resulted in bloat.

Here's my new thing: if I know I'll be eating at a restaurant, I'll just order iced tea and water to drink, and then I make sure to drink a LOT of water when I get home as well as all day the next day. Seems to be working to balance out sodium bloat.

don't worry, it was most likely the pickled things and sauerkraut. pickled anything = LOTS of salt, regardless of how healthy it is un-pickled. i have a tolerance to salt but recently realized that when i eat mt. olive's pickles sweetened with splenda, the following day i am up at least 4 lbs on the scale. i was shocked the first time it happened then figured it was the pickles. a few weeks ago i had a pickle craving again and had two small ones of the aforementioned -- just two! -- and sure enough, up again. needless to say, i no longer have them and will be switching to a different brand, because usually i don't react this way to pickles.