How do you settle the salt cravings?

[Sluggy]

For those of you on diuretic medications, how have you found yourself dealing with the salt cravings (if any)?

Tbh, I've taken to eating tons of Mexican candy and fruit seasoning, which is almost entirely made of salt [emoji14]

What are your favorites?

[Barb99]

OMG, I put salt on everything! I could not get enough of that stuff, I got so bad I was adding salt to individual bites, fork in one hand, salt shaker in the other.

I've had SRS now so I'm done with the Spiro (I don't miss that stuff at all) and my salt intake is back to normal, the cravings are gone.

[IdontEven]

Yeah I pretty much just salt the hell out of everything. One of my favorites is a cheddar omelette, with a bunch of seasoned salt on the bottom so it hits your tongue all at once. Dear god, sometimes it's just like OM NOM N...where'd all the eggs go? Dammit now I have to make more.

Also, anchovies. And pickle juice. If they sold just pickle juice in a jar, I'd buy it at this point.

And this is just to maintain low blood pressure. If I don't eat tons of salt I start passing out when I stand up. Wheeee!

[Brooke]

Salted Mexican plums, I also have a soda stream for carbonated waters, usually do fruity flavors and add in some salt.

I will also go for the Cajun wings from wingstop those are extra salty and delicious.

Also do the tajin seasoning on lots of stuff.

Low carb diet so no Mexican candy :-( I miss those mango suckers!

Sprouts has some good dried Mexican style mangos in their boxed candy area too


~Brooke~

[Deborah]

I drink a glass of water with 1/4 tsp salt and apple cider vinegar in it every morning.  During the day I drink two or three cups of bouillon soup.  I also salt my food. 

Since I used to buy into the notion that salt was bad, this has been quite a change.


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[Kylo]

I'm not supposed to take any additional salt but smoked meat I can get away with.

[SophieD]

Salted watermelon.  Wierd, I know.... I'm another one that used to avoid salt.  Boy, has that changed.

[JeanetteLW]

  Perhaps I'm a different sort. I've been taking Spiro for 4.5 months and do not notice any real changes in needing more water or salt. I quit adding extra salt after a few admonitions from my doctor in reference to my high BP at the time. I still don't add salt when I cook. My sister will but I don't add any more. So nothing has changed there.
I have never been a "water drinker", never have drank what a lot of people say you should a day. I do drink water every day. I freeze plastic bottles of water which I drink from as in melts. (ice water is the only way to drink it IMO) I will some times drink up to 2 of these 16 oz bottles a day, but usually one is enough for me. Some days I realize I have had any water yet and then get a bottle out. This may be late afternoon or early evening.
  I drink when I'm thirsty which is not that often. I would drown drinking the amounts I hear others say they drink.

Hugs,
    Jeanette

[KarynMcD]

Salted watermelon.  Wierd, I know..

My ex-wife liked it that way too. She said it made it sweeter. I understand the science behind that, but I never could try it.

I've been taking Spiro for 4.5 months and do not notice any real changes in needing more water or salt.

I never noticed any need for more water either and I never had salt cravings, but once I started to get leg cramps often, I had to increase my salt intake to make them go away.

[Devlyn]

I've eaten more chips and Doritos in the last three months than I did in the last three years!

Hugs, Devlyn

[sarah1972]

Same here. Pretty bad salt cravings.

I eat a lot of salad and carrots. Drowned in Ranch Dressing  .

Also noticed I put a lot more salt on things than I used to. And then I am with Devlin: Chips and Doritos. All the time.

Also noticed I drink almost three times as much water than I used to. At least I cut back on coffee quite a bit.

[Barb99]

Salted watermelon.  Wierd, I know.... I'm another one that used to avoid salt.  Boy, has that changed.

I was 30 years old before I discovered most people DON'T put salt on watermelon. Where I grew up everyone in the neighborhood used salt. I brings out the sweetness!

[RobynD]

Pickles (also olives, pickled veggies etc ) and drinking the pickle brine. All VERY low in calories but very high in salt.

[Devlyn]

Salted watermelon is a Southern thing, and it's done for no other reason than they salt EVERYTHING......twice! 

Hugs, Devlyn

[SophieD]

Salted watermelon is a Southern thing, and it's done for no other reason than they salt EVERYTHING......twice! 

Hugs, Devlyn

If we can't fry it, we salt it.  Sometimes both!

[Devlyn]

Amen! 

[Dena]

I don't eat much salt normally but you have to put it in bread, chili, soup and it's a must on watermelon. This is from a girl who was born in Wisconsin so it's not just a southern thing.

[josie76]

Also, anchovies. And pickle juice. If they sold just pickle juice in a jar, I'd buy it at this point.

Oh my God, reading this just gave me the most intense craving for pickle brine! This made me want to get out of the bath and go find some. Crazy

So my big thing since I'm out driving most of the day is McDonald's french fries. They are sooo good if they pour the salt on right. A big negative of the Spiro, it's not even summer and just a bit of work makes me feel weak and light headed. Yeah, that part is sucking.

[Stevie]

Green olives, preferably stuffed with jalapenos.

[Pisces228]

I have been known to crack open a jar of pickle juice and chug away haha