More than likely you've heard of the Pink Salt Trick for weight loss. I've known about it for a year or more but it's only been a few weeks that it's come to the center of my radar screen. This winter I've been gaining weight at an alarm rate and when I got my summer clothes out most of them were too tight. I hate tight clothing on me and other people. If they show tummy rolls and cellulite I won't wear a garment. Even on women who are slim and fit if her "camel toes" are showing I'm going to mentally call her out for wearing a second skin and calling it workout gear. And before anyone is tempted to scold for not being politically correct, I would never say anything out loud to another woman, to her friends and mine so how is that body shaming if I keep it to myself? Either way, I'm not going to be silenced in my own blog for what I think. Sooner rather than later all of us who grew up with a certain standard of decency in dressing will die off and then the sin of women judging the way other women dress will be solved.
Boy, did I get off track! Back to pink salt. I can't help thinking about my brother when the topic of salt comes up. A few years ago when I was on a kick to learn more about cooking I wanted to buy a pricey gift box of salts from around the world. I was fascinated that you can get black, pink, brown, yellow and blue salt as well as the white I've seen all of my life. My brother and I bickered back and forth, as siblings tend to do, about whether or not they tasted any different. He thought it was a rip off---that there wouldn't be any difference except in price---and I thought it might be one of the secrets of good cooking that he learned and I didn't.
When I first googled the Pink Salt Trick I lucked out and found a straight forward recipe---a practically free concoction to put together. I was not so lucky the next few times I google the Pink Salt Trick looking for more information about its safety, etc., and I found instead Oprah's VERY LONG video hawking a weight loss pill based on pink Himalayan salt. Both the free concoction and Oprah's pill claim that they tackle insulin resistance and is an alternate to the Mounjaro shots that people are paying big money out-of-pocket for but are getting amazing results. Both Pink Salt Tricks have dozens of testimonials attached to their claims.
I'd already tried the free version before stumbling on to Oprah's video and silly me I thought I'd just be finding some science behind it and variations to the basic recipe so I started watching it. Instead, near the end of her VERY LONG video she revealed that she's selling pills, pills called Prozenith made with pink salt and three other ingredients you can only get in Japan. It ticked me off that she made one of those so-called medical break-through videos. In my mind if it's a good product you don't say things like "we only have 182 bottles left in stock so order now!" You also don't make people buy two bottles at a time for $79 each while encouraging people to buy eight at a time at a reduced rate of $50 a bottle. You also don't have to offer the first ten people who place an order a zoom meeting with Oprah.
Out of curiosity I did a google search to see if you could by the Prozenith any place else other than at the VERY LONG video website and I found a product on Amazon called Pro Prozenith that contains two of the four ingredients in common with those in the pills Oprah is hawking but for less than half the price. The labels even look the same except for the addition of the word Pro and the difference in the ingredients.
According to the VERY LONG video The Pink Salt Trick was first introduced in Dr. Casey Means book, Good Energy and from what I gather from the video she helped Oprah loss a bunch of weight and afterward they started working together to make the Pink Salt Trick into a pill form that they could bring to market. Their formula has pink salt, quercein, bern berberiene and mountain root. The practically free version has pink salt, lemon juice, honey and water.
To make things even more interesting a 10 minute video of Oprah showed up in my Facebook feed that I suspect was AI generated. It introduced the Pink Salt 'Hack' and a web link to a guy selling a liquid drop version of a concoction made with pink salt, bern bereriene and an ingredient you can only get in Brazil. See a pattern here? I didn't watch his entire video because the ending was predictable...a high pressure pitch to buy his high priced hack/liquid drops.
Like I said before, I didn't know there was more than one Pink Salt Trick out there before I tried the practically free version. All the testimonials for all three versions claim dramatic lost weight without changing their diet or exercising. To judge if this is true, I drank the nearly-free concoction for a week without going to our gym or taking walks around the campus. I also didn't give up eating things I know I should. For example over the week I had 7 pieces of Ghirardelli's dark chocolate squares, 4 cookies and 2 bowls of ice cream and I didn't cut the portions down on any of my meals nor did I pass up on the bread they serve here with all dinners. I lost 4.8 pounds in the first seven days and maybe it's magical thinking but I feel better---less food obsessing going on in my head. No foraging in the kitchen out of boredom. It also didn't effect my blood pressure.
By the middle of my second week, the scale seemed to get stuck and by the end of the week I'd only lost two more pounds and I had given up all sugary stuff except for my daily dose of chocolate, so I expected more. I really need to add exercise to the mix. I only average around 2,500 steps a day. Am I going to keep using the salt? As long as it doesn't start effecting my blood pressure will---I'm checking it 2-3 times a day. If you'd tried a Pink Salt Trick what was your experience? ©
Until next Wednesday.
The Pink Salt Trick Recipe
1/4 teaspoon of pink salt dissolved in an 8 oz cup of warm filtered water. Add a 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice and 1 teaspoon of raw honey. Drink this first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. I've seen suggestions where you can add grated ginger, mint leaves or coconut water to mix things up, if you get bored with the taste or can't get it down. I find that drinking it fast without stopping allows you to avoid the taste issue all together.
Here's an article claiming the Oprah endorsement is fake and so it the pink salt trick - tells how to spot fake endorsements. Click here.
Well that’s an interesting concept as I too have tried so many kinds of weight loss tricks. It seems as I age that I can’t seem to lose the weight as I once did. I know part of it is lack of exercise and poor food choices. I just can’t seem to get myself motivated to attempt another diet. I hate the word diet as it’s one of those 4 letter words I would like to eliminate from my vocabulary. My husband has never had a weight problem and at 91 he appears to be getting thinner and thinner. I, on the other hand, am slowly putting on weight that is not healthy for me. May have to give pink salt a try, I will let you know if I have any success. JJ
ReplyDeleteJ.J. I just found your comment about The Four Winds book in my spam folder. So if you're wondering why it didn't show up before, that's what happened. I always forget to look in there for stray posts that the gods of Blogs thinks are adds.
DeleteThe funny part with this 'trick' is that I don't feel that restless longing to forage for food in the evenings. That's gone. When my scales plateaued I got a little depressed but then decided to keep the experiment going until the end of the month because a plateau is better than a gain. And with other diets I've been on plateau happen. I just need to get myself to the gym to break through it. My clothing feels a little looser.
DeleteMy doctor is as skinny as your husband. (He tries to gain and can't.) Twenty five years ago he was nutrition specialist. Now he's 'internal medicine.' And he never mentions my weight. Figure that one out.
I've never heard of the pink salt trick. I hope you feel better whatever you try to do. Be safe, though!
ReplyDeleteI'm checking my blood twice a day and it's staying low. Which doesn't make any sense, but I will stop the pink salt recipe the first indication that my BP goes up. It fact there's been a few times I thought it was too low!
DeleteMy doctor used to regularly mention my weight. Since Covid, though, he never comments on it. I find it odd, but I'm so glad he is off my back. I diet/exercise when I can get myself into the mood, but there is no point in pushing me when I don't wanna do it...
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My doctor has seen me gain and lose 50 pounds twice and I did it the safe way. I think he knows me and knows I'm no longer willing to devote hours a day in the gym to lose and keep it off. He once told me that he works as hard at gaining as I did at losing and that it's really hard to change our genetics. I have found other doctors like my foot doctor haven't mentioned it either which I find really strange.
DeleteI'm nervous about adding that much salt these days. Last thing I need is water retention and salt does that to you. But I'm also really intrigued by this. Got to think on that one! Keep us posted on future results!
ReplyDeleteI've been keeping track of my ankles and haven't seen anymore retention that normally I get at the end of the day and with this heat, it would be there. I don't use a/c so it's been HOT. If I get one blood pressure reading high than I normally run I'll quit.
DeleteYou are the first person to mention this Pink Salt Trick and it is fascinating. I don't see me trying it, but if it works for you then I say YAY! Now I'm wondering if I've ever seen pink salt for sale anywhere in a brick and mortar store. 🤔
ReplyDeleteMy grocery store (Meijer) has at least ten brands of pink salt on their shelf last week. You can also find lots of reviews online of the supposed best brands but I don't trust online reviews anymore of any product. But for anyone who is tempted to buy some make sure there are no additives in the salt to keep it from caking. You want pure salt which isn't hard to find.
DeleteI can't wait to hear the progression. Looks like a great start I've heard of this before. Was it really Oprah or another one of those AI things like Kelly Clarkson and others?
ReplyDeleteI've seen the Kelly Clarkson claim too. I got obsessed watching everything Facebook fed me. I'm pretty sure I can spot the Oprah AI but I don't see Kelly often enough to know if her claim was really.
DeleteAs for a great start, if I was on a normal diet I would have been really excited with the loss, but after seeing all the claims of a pound a day I was somewhat disappointed. Still, it's was a good kick start for me. I just hope I can keep it going, at least long enough to fit in my clothes again.
Well now that's one I've never heard of. Think I'll give it a try for a stubborn 5-7 lbs I'd like to be rid of. I lost 30 lbs with intermittent fasting about 3 years ago and just continued with that program because it was so painless. Fixed the GERD too. No food before 11 am or after 8 pm. Daylight Savings Time throws a wrench into that so there's ANOTHER reason I'd like to go back to Standard time.
ReplyDeleteI just saw on GroundNews that TX is passing a law to put a label on Doritos and such that says 'contains ingredients not considered safe for human consumption'. And if RFK Jr. manages to make more people aware of the harms of heavily processed foods then I'm all for that. As long as I don't have to listen to him talk about it.
I've been doing the no food before 11 AM or after 8 PM for a couple of years but forgot way. LOL
DeleteThe trouble with RFK jr is he doesn't believe in science so I don't trust him to make food decisions. I've have more respect for him if he hadn't taken food inspectors out of meat packing plants, etc. I do believe there are some ingredients in our processed foods that are bad for us but I'll never forgive him for firing all the vaccine sciences.
I'm not keen on his many of his decisions either, and I won't be surprised if he has his own grift going, which will enrich him during his stretch as Secy of HHS, however long it may be. The discord should be hitting full steam pretty soon, don't you think?
DeleteYou'd think with all the No King protests going on and the members of congress getting flooded with calls something would hit the fan sooner rather than later. I saw one of the senators grilling RFK jr about childhood vaccines and he came off looking like an idiot. Didn't know anything about how childhood diseases effect children when they get them.
DeleteThe American Pediatric Society is sticking with their recommendations. they say to ignore RFK Jr.
DeleteI didn't know that.
DeleteI have never heard of the pink salt weight loss plan. I don't think I could gag it down. But I did buy several kinds of salt in a gift box and we could tell a little difference. Jacobsen Salt Co is in Portland. I visited their store and was amazed at all the different flavors.
ReplyDeleteGood luck for your summer slim down!
I remember way back when Oprah lost 60 lbs. on the Optifast diet and hawked it relentlessly on her tv show. She even brought out a kid's red wagon with 60 pounds of fat on it. Then she regained it all and then some. She also was on the board of Weight Watchers until it was revealed that she had been using one of the GLP-1 drugs to lose weight. Now it's Pink Salt? Puh-leeze.
ReplyDeleteJust goes to show if someone with her money and connections can't lose weight and keep it off then what real hope is there for the rest of us. According to the commenter below you, she didn't endorse the pink salt trick. But it's hard to believe after watching an hour video of her doing just that. If that's all AI then we're in real trouble.
DeleteI think I saw on the news that Oprah has not endorsed the pink salt fad, that all the videos featuring her are fake. I have heard of the diet. Like you, I have tried all of them and I don't think I could do salt. I can't remember why, but when I was a kid my parents thought salt pills would cure some condition I had and forced them on me during the summer. I think I would gag on the salt tea.
ReplyDeleteDuring WWII salt pills were used in jungles and factories and other places people sweat a lot to prevent dehydration and leg cramps. Some factories even had machines that dispensed the pills.
DeleteI just googled and found a link saying that those Oprah videos endorsing the pink salt trick are fake. That long one sure looked real to me. You'd think with all her money she could get them taken down. What do they do when you want to claim your zoom call will Oprah? Fake that too? AI would be a good excuse for anyone in the public eye to claim something they actually did post is not real. Not saying she would here but I'm thinking of people in politics. Scary!
I have seen some popup ads while watching YouTube that are about mixing salt maybe? into water, but for some reason I thought baking soda was involved. I'll have to google this whole thing. We use pink salt from Costco (Himalayan Sea Salt) and have for ages. Do you drink this before any coffee? I'm just nervous about water retention, as I have had one "fat ankle" since my first pregnancy 49 years ago. And summer/humidity make it worse. But that much salt probably wouldn't make much difference. I could use a quick 5# drop to motivate me to eat better. I think I've eaten my weight in strawberries and shortcake in the past two weeks.
ReplyDeleteYes, there is another weight loss fad going around where you use vinegar, baking soda and pink salt but I couldn't get myself to do it. I've seen what baking soda can do when used to clean stuff. I think that combination is called the apple cider vinegar trick of something like that. I will warn you if you google any of these tricks you'll be shown more ads until they are coming out out ears.
DeleteYes, I drink it before my coffee, while my coffee is perking. I have wondered if I shouldn't let some time pass in between drinking the 'trick' and coffee but I really LOVE my coffee so I haven't done that experiment yet. So far water retention hasn't been a problem for MY ankles and even in this heat.
Never heard of the pink salt trick, have heard of and do use pink salt over normal salt on my food. Never been one for fad diets and I really need to lose some weight, my big problem is that I like food too much...........lol
ReplyDeleteMe too. I have a love/hate relationship with food. Love the taste, hate the quilt that comes with eating.
DeleteI worry about extra Salt intake. However, you are watching your blood pressure and swelling so I think you've got that covered. I'll be waiting to hear more about the results.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be doing it if my blood pressure was upward trending.
DeleteHow interesting. I never heard of the Pink Salt Trick and pink Himalayan salt is what I use on the daily. I'm tempted to try the recipe, but probably not because my sensitive stomach doesn't react well to lemon juice.
ReplyDeleteThe honey almost cancels out the taste of the lemon...not the entirely. I don't used table salt on any of my foods but I find it interesting that you found it for that purpose.
DeleteNever heard of this. I am leery. Another fad diet. We are too old for dieting.
ReplyDeleteThere is good reason to be leery of things that go around the internet.
DeleteThe only other time I heard pink salt mentioned was about a year or so ago, when a member of the yacht club where I was working stopped to ask me if I knew about it. Her concern was dehydration; she advised adding it to water to increase the water's "ability to hydrate." Water had been doing a pretty good job all on its own for me -- for decades -- so I didn't give it a try and forgot about it until now. Pink salt for weight loss reminds me of the popularity of the cabbage soup diet. My mom gave that a try, so it had to be in the 1970s or so. My own approach to weight loss -- fewer calories, more exercise -- doesn't require purchasing anything, which is a plus.
ReplyDeleteI remember the cabbage soup one very well. I did lose weight on it so did my mom but it wasn't pleasant. Fewer calories doesn't always work. Changing the source of the calories and eating more is better for some people. Changing the time of the day/evening you take in the bulk of your calories makes a difference too.
DeleteSalt tablets were a common thing to take in places where people sweat a lot, before air conditioning, to help with hydration. Factories had machines that dispensed them and soldiers fighting in jungles were issued them with their supplies.
And don't forget salt blocks for cattle!
DeleteThe Honey would be something not compatible for a Diabetic to drink Daily, I have Himalayan Pink Salt tho', lots of it I bought a long time ago and use sparingly. May try some of it without adding Honey since taste to me if it's Salty is okay, I like Savory, Salty and Sour flavors more than Sweet any day. Camel Toe, is always so embarrassingly vulgar so I'd want to quietly and discreetly tell someone I know that they're showing off the Good China in their Pants that aren't fitting appropriately. *LOL* I'm not a Modest Person and even Nudity never bothered me, but ill fitting Clothing does, go figure!
ReplyDeleteGlad someone else is bothered by the Camel Toes. "Vulgar" is a good way to describe the look.
DeleteThere are so many quick ways to lose weight without giving up food, I wish they worked and when you're struggling to lose weight its easy to be taken in and think they'll work. Your pink salt seems interesting, but I think I'll stick to eating less and moving more.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I went down that rabbit hole but I'm back up again. know in my head it's not the pink salt that made me lose.
DeleteI am really comfortable at my current weight, and have decided I'm done with trying to lose weight. Yes, I'm told (by society, and my husband) I'm overweight and need to lose 50 lbs. But I'm down 60 pounds from my all-time highest weight, and my weight has been very stable for more than 10 years, and I'm tired of trying to live up to others' expectations. So I'm good here, and at my age (72) I think a little extra weight is not such a bad thing. It may just be the thing that helps you survive the next pandemic, and is great for cuddling my new grandson, who was born 6/25/2025. He needs a little padding, and I've got it.
ReplyDeleteI admire you for your acceptance of yourself. I used to accept myself before moving here but there is always someone (skinny) around me who is obsessed with not gaining weight or getting enough exercise who say things that constantly reminds me that I make poor choices....I take the bread and clean my plate, for example. They don't mean to do it but it gets inside my head. You are right about having extra weight for things like another pandemic or getting cancer treatments.
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