Natural Healthcare Guide

Do not add extra salt in salads, fruits Have saltless omelette, nimbu paani Cabbage, spinach and mushroom don't need salt, you can cook them with little or no salt Chips, canned, tinned food, preserves, salad dressings, all readymade food have excess salt and should be avoided. Never have rice for dinner; it makes you feel heavy and turns into water during the night. Use more of rock salt or sendha namak which has less sodium than normal salt Select spices or seasonings that do not list sodium on their labels, i.e. choose garlic powder over garlic salt. Salt preference is an acquired taste that can be unlearned. It takes about 6-8 weeks to get used to eating food with much lower quantities of salt, but once it's done, it's actually difficult to eat foods like potato chips because they taste way too salty.

Weight fluctuations don't really mean actual weight gain on the scale. You get up in the morning, empty your bladder and step up on the scale and you see you are 500gms to 1.5 kg heavier than yesterday? Next question..Is that really possible? Well well well!  They say 3500 calories = 0.5 Kilograms of body fat, but you didn't eat 10,000 yesterday. How did you gain 1.5 kgs? So dont worry!  Short term fluctuations in body weight are caused by factors irrelevant to your long term progress. You are not losing muscle/gaining fat every time the scale swings .  That number represents the weight of your bones, organs, bodily fluids, glycogen (the form of carbohydrate you stow away in your liver and muscles, which serves as a back-up fuel, like an energy piggy bank) and the waste inside your digestive tract that you haven't yet eliminated.   Here are the common reasons you may see a bump up on the scale, even while you're losing body fat: You Ate a Little Too Much So...