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Wellness Wednesday for November 9, 2022

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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I tried putting 1/4 teaspoon of potassium chloride into a cup of water, and was unable to drink more than half of it. It has quite a strong flavor. I tried mixing 1/4 with food, and found the food extremely salty (I don't know what I expected) and difficult to choke down. I tried melting a bunch of M&Ms and mixing it in, which was tolerable but doesn't seem like a sustainable solution.

I will say that on the M&M day, where I got the full 1/4 teaspoon (about 680 mg of potassium) early in the morning I was remarkably not hungry for the next 6-8 hours. Could be placebo, but if so it was a very good one. Normally even if I'm not hungry "I could eat", but food held no real attraction for those hours. Promising, though I'm on a few of other supplements (and one prescription) that are also supposed to lower appetite. Maybe the potassium was just the last straw.

I'm still trying to find a way to take a large dose with food or water: in the meantime I just sprinkle some on my food the way I would salt. Well, actually, less than I would salt: this stuff is pretty strong.

I think 1 cup of water is too much. I've been dissolving mine in whatever about 2 swigs is. I think the good thing about potassium chloride is that, while I agree the taste is really awful, there's almost no lingering aftertaste, so just have something to chase it with and it's 3 seconds of unpleasantness.