How in the heck do you all get your salt in? I am not a big fan of salt but I have been sprinkling salt on my foods as much as I can (whenever I happen to remember it). I decided on Friday to measure out my salt and put it in a condiment dish so I can get pinches of it throughout the day. I'm not even close to getting it all in.
Do you have the same problem? The booklet says we need it for the potassium but do we really need that much salt?
Hi, I don't do LAWL but I was just curious as to why they ask you to eat salt. Normally on any diet they tell you to stay away from it. A lot of sodium isn't good for the body, it makes you retain fluid and can affect your health.
If your diet needs potassium why don't you try bananas or prunes, they're both high in it.
LAWL wants you to get in Morton's Lite salt (which I assume Merem was referring to) it's just for the potassium --with so much water to drink it's no doubt we would be low. I rarely get mine in but try to when I cook, but I have never measured it out. I sometimes take a potassium pill for good measure--I've only had a couple of episodes of leg cramps since starting LAWL, but they are not uncommon for me either.
about the whole sodium thing~ ok even if you eat ham or anything high in sodium, except for the fact that you retain water which ups the scales arent you still losing weight? i just never got why we cant have the sodium if were gonna lose weight anyway, its not like sodium prevents weight loss, the fat goes away its just the water that stays,...i think its so that when you weigh in you show a change...but realistically if you stayed on a high sodium diet u'd still lose weight right?
I never measure out my salt, neither. But if I'm eating foods that are higher in salt, I won't go out of my way to add the Morton's Lite to them or that meal. I will do the sprinkling over my veggies with dinner or something usually.
Aggie, I think you would definitely still lose weight even if you were on a high sodium diet, but it would be harder to tell and I think it would be slower. All of our organs and systems work best when we are hydrated, so maybe it helps our metabolism burn more efficiently to be hydrated??? You're the fucha-doctah, girl! You know more than me for sure.
I think you need to see how your body reacts to the weight loss. I never use my mortons salt and I have never had a problem with leg cramps. They say rapid weight loss can cause a loss in potassium and thus result in leg cramps.
Since i have cut back on salt so much I notice it so much more in foods now. I don't like it anymore. It burns my mouth since I am not used to it.
Lisa, I am the same way. Food tastes way too salty to me now. I ordered meatloaf in a restaurant a while back, and it tasted like they had spilled the whole salt shaker in it. It was horrible. DH tasted it and said it tasted fine to him. Weird.
This is interesting. I measured out my salt, and I am going to try this today, too.
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