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A LESSON ON SALT
When I started this journey, I eliminated ADDED salt from my diet. I eventually limited or eliminated heavily processed foods, eating much CLEANER. I saw a discussion on "How much sodium should I be taking in?". Most repsonses recommended keeping it around 2500 mg per day. So I decided I would check mine since I had never paid attention. Not surprisingly, I was averageing 1500 mg or less per day.
So I have been maintaining around 195-197 lbs for a few weeks now, but last night my daughter said "Dad, are you snacking too much? You look like you have gained some weight back." Now I knew that could not be as I still jump on the scale every now and then, even though not for an official weekly weigh-in. SO I went upstairs, jumped into my gym shorts and onto the scale ... 203! What the??? I know I was 197 the day before... what gives? I went to bed last night without my 20 ounce protein smoothie (which never causes me to run to the bathroom in the middle of the night). But last night I must have gone 6 times! I drank the same amount of water that I always do, so this was a mystery. This morning, I got on the scale AFTER breakfast... 198 lbs! Where did the 5 lbs go overnight?
AFter a little pondering I had my answer .... SALT! I had eaten my weekly chinese lunch yesterday, but I noticed the chef must have dropped the salt shaker in the shrimp lo mein, because it was VERY VERY SALTY. I forced it down becuase I had some place to be. Then for dinner I had leftover homemade chicken noodle soup from the night before, made with lots of chicken broth... MORE SALT! So, all that to say I validated what I already knew in my head... SALT makes you retain fluid... at least for little while. Another reason why we should not be weighing ourselves daily due to the fluctuations a little food change can make in one day.
Diet Calendar Entries for 07 November 2014:
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2338 kcal
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Fat: 40.71g | Prot: 205.16g | Carb: 295.34g.
Breakfast: Egg White, Cinnamon, Quaker Old Fashioned Oats, Sun-Maid Natural California Raisins, Kirkland Signature Clover Honey. Lunch: Fresh & Easy Mango Salsa, Rice Pilaf, Skinless Chicken Breast. Dinner: Kroger Cocktail Shrimp with Sauce, Clif Bar Builder's Bar - Crunchy Peanut Butter, Kroger Cocktail Shrimp with Sauce. Snacks/Other: Clif Bar Clif Bar - Chocolate Chip, Clif Bar Clif Bar - Chocolate Chip, Clif Bar Clif Bar - Crunchy Peanut Butter. more...
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2561 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Weight Training (moderate) - 5 minutes, Walking (exercise) - 3.5/mph - 28 minutes, Running - 6/mph - 12 minutes, Resting - 18 hours and 15 minutes, Sleeping - 5 hours. more...
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