@rosehips I don’t know if this will help, but a more drastic change in diet might actually make it easier. I don’t know how you usually eat, but going more “whole foods” might help reduce your craving for salt and maybe improve your health overall. I’m not trying to preach it or anything, but over time I think the body starts to adjust to getting nutrition differently. I don’t think it has to do with just taste cravings, but essential nutrient cravings. For instance, in the book Eat To Live, which I read part of recently, the author points out you can get as amuch as or more protein from vegetables if you consider the protien per calorie eaten. In the end we fill up on calories for the most part. I think our bodies crave meat because we teach it that it is densely full of protein in a few bites, but we can teach it to crave leafy greens and other veggies for the protein as well. I never follow any of these “diets” 100% so I certainly am not saying run out, read his book, and follow it to the letter, or anything like that. But, the more veggies and fruit you eat, probably the less sodium you will crave. I rarely add a lot of salt to fruit and veggies, but to meat, soups, potatoes, I certainly do. Eating those things without is tough.
Also, while you have been very low sat for a while now, have you had follow up bloodwork? Again, I don’t know much of anything about your condition, but I wil tell you this, if I just listened to doctor’s recommendations and what I read or hear I would not understand well what affects my cholesterol numbers. The reason I know is because I get tested after experimenting for a while. You know how everyone said eat butter not margarine, it’s better. Well, if I eat butter my cholesterol goes up in fact, when I consume cholesterol my cholesterol goes up period. My body does not know what to do with it and I figure my body keeps pumping it into my system even when I am taking it in with food. My regulating device doesn’t seem to work. I can drop my cholesterol 50 points in a few weeks if I cut my cholesterol intake in half. If I didn’t test it I wouldn’t know. So, whatever diet is prescribed, I say follow it u with tests. Like a diabetic does. I always say they are lucky (of curse lucky is an odd word to use the) to be able to get instant feedback. They are trusted to treat themselves and can test at will. Most of us have to wait to see the doctor, wait for the doctor to tell us the results, etc.