QuestionWhat other low sodium diets are there? The one my cardiologist recommended I have been on for three years and my weight loss has been at a stand still for more than three months. Help?!
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My work schedule is so hectic, 10pm-7am with split days off, how do I keep a regular schedule of eating? Or is that wrong?
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It is always possible to eat on a fairly regular schedule. It is often hard. You may need to keep to your work schedule days on the days you have off. In other words, don't stay up when you'd usually be sleeping. Other than that, eat at regular intervals. You don't have to eat lunch when every one else eats lunch (12 pm). Your lunchtime may be 1 am instead. It's lonely, living the nightshift, inconvenient, and sometimes it sucks. Hopefully, one day you'll have the option to change your wake/sleep schedule to a more daytime oriented one. On the other hand, there are many people who live your schedule by choice.
Good luck, and good planning. Keep away from junk, prepare your meals before you go to work, (all them things your doctor, momma and/or nutritionist has already told you)
Answer First it is always important to run whatever you receive from this web-site past your doctor. Second I would not change to another diet that has worked so well for so long, just a small tweak or two. Third our bodies adapt to changes in our lifestyle. Our system tries to get into a self-preservation mode - keep some of that weight, reduce your weight loss - the train has slipped of its tracks - and you'll need a way to put it back and give it a nudge.
So, fourth, when my weight loss hits a bump in the road you need to change something. As I mentioned you do not want to change the diet in any major way, but if it allows, can you
1. drink more water? Say 2 more glasses at each meal.
2. Do more exercise. Park a few more parking spaces away from the building. Take the elevator 1 floor shy of where you need to go (if security measures don't make this too awkward) and take the stairs for the last floor. After work walk the dog, your's or the neighbor's.
3. Since I do not know the particulars of your low-sodium diet, I am suggesting actions that have worked for me.
In my diet protein is the major component, with carbs and fats being in a lesser role, but when I need to bump things I eat a large serving a Carbs or a tad bit extra Fat at one meal, every day for a week.
Is there 1 thing you can suddenly increase for 1 week or less?!
Of all the suggestions, Exercise is the best thing to do to give your system a shock - if you choose the exercise - make it significant, make it constant in duration, but random as to what part of the day.
[If you think about someone that has passed out, you break an ammonia capsule under their nose, then get them to 'walk it off'] - that's what your system needs - a WAKE UP CALL and something New To Adapt To!
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