I lost a lot of weight by eating sausage as a snack. It's the only snack that seems to satiate my snack cravings while losing weight, and after a while by eating protein-rich snacks, my cravings die down.I've stopped doing this because of high sodium and I'm worried about my heart long term. I put back on a little weight after cravings returned.I've tried replacing it with other protein-rich snacks like canned meat/fish and yogurt and neither of them do it for me. Even "reduced sodium" sausage is very high in sodium.Should I just take potassium supplements to offset the sodium or something else? Also I have trouble breaking below 180 pounds, I think maybe it's time to try something else but have trouble sticking to anything else.
>>34275001Why not just stop snacking? The less you indulge in an appetite, the less you'll crave.
>>34275001Why are you worried about salt? The Japanese diet has some of the highest salt levels in the world, and they have very low rates of cardiac problems.
>>34275001That's a pretty picture. Maybe you can just eat sausage every other day instead. Either way once you hit your goal weight you don't have to starve, and you begin to focus on maintaining, which allows more calories, but be careful you don't just gain the weight back.
>>34276648Thought it resulted in heart disease. I guess not. Thanks anon, I'll look into this more.
>>34277090It effects them, they have very high blood pressure, but being thin and not overeating is like 90% of longevity.
>>34277090The whole "salt is bad for your heart" thing is one of those things that seems plausible (high blood pressure is associated with cardiovascular problems, and salt temporarily raises your blood pressure, so maybe salt is also bad for your heart). "Salt Bad" is both simple and superficially plausible, so it quickly became "common knowledge". But it has never been demonstrated in medical trials, and the bigger the sample size and the more tightly controlled the study, the less effect salt seems to have on cardiovascular health."Eating cholesterol raises your cholesterol level" is another one that is both obvious and utterly false. Dietary cholesterol gets broken down during digestion like everything else, by the time your intestine absorbs it, it's no longer cholesterol.
>>34277108Yeah the issue is that high blood pressure doesn't *cause* circulatory problems, it's a *symptom* of them. Lowering blood pressure to improve your circulatory system is getting the causality backwards.
>>34275001I never saw such a thing
>>34275001It may not be easy to find but there is garlic, etc sausage with no salt. Salt is better than being fat. I doubt salt is as bad as they say but my opinions do not mean a thing.
