My food intake for the day

Cals

Fat

Cholest

Sodium

Carbs

Sugars

Fiber

Protein

1,380

73g

199mg

3,612mg

139g

50g

14g

77g

Wow and I even had some chips ahoy!!  Wooo hoo!!  I'm trying to stay under 1800 a day for now looks like that's gonig to be easier than I thought!  Fat intake was much better today.  Gotta learn more about what foods have how much fat so I can monitor that more closely.  The sodium's out the roof but I don't care about that right now. 

That's a terrific start, Kris!  I had trouble keeping sodium down too--- especially hard if you eat prepared foods (frozen or canned.) Luckily, I have always had good blood pressure so I don't sweat sodium much-- in fact, I had 120/80 BP my whole life-- but post op, it's now always 100/60. My intake today: B: 1/4 c.  pureed ground turkey meat w/ taco seasoning/lowfat cheese/nonfat sour cream S: 8 oz protein shake L: 1/4 c. pureed ham salad S: 8 oz protein shake D: 1/4 c. pureed Lean Cuisine™ Chicken in Peanut Sauce WOOT! PARRRRRRRRTAY!

 

I think most of my sodium is coming from the meats I'm eating.  I'm still hooked on meat and it makes up majority of my meals.  Last night I chose the smallest pork chop and grabbed about 2 cups of  green and  wax bean medley (love that word)  and about 1/2 cup of instant potatoes. Still I ate the greens first and left the juicy pork chop for last!  But at least my greens were bigger than my meat. (that sounds a lil weird....)  I've always had good BP up until I hit 330lbs and started using phentermine. Not sure if it was the weight or the phentermine that did it.  Nonetheless, since I've lost weight I'm lingering around 135/88 which is a BIG improvement. I'm also not taking the meds anymore so that's even more amazing.  Before the weight loss I believe I was at like 190/99 or so.  Freaked my doctor out since I had never had any issues before.  He put me on lisinopril which took it down to about 150/94 on average.  I never changed my sodium intake so I suppose I don't put much stock in the sodium = elevated BP thing. Headlines today read "Shari makes a fortune selling her Chicken in Peanut Sauce milkshake to Steak and Shake!"

I have to work at keeping my sodium down too....  look for no salt added wherever possible.  This is especially good for canned veggies. As for mea****ch the chicken!  much of it is 'enhanced' with sal****er injections.  I buy meat fresh and then cook big batches of it ready to be used.  Helps keep the salt use down to a reasonable level....

Good job Chris.

For me it was:

B: Skipped (Coffee) S: Skipped L: 2 slices of pizza S: Protein shake & Kashi bar D: No idea

BTW - if you want to see what I eat... and make comments (they are welcome) see my blog.  It is all there :)