My First Venture Out

Hey all, sorry I didn't post yesterday, but I was actually out of the house!

Have you recovered from your shock? Ok, good. On to the rest of the post. Wednesday was a fairly ordinary day, and my ankle was enough better that I was able to do both of my walks, though I was a bit slower than usual. Yesterday, my aunt and one of her friends came up to town, and we all went out shopping and to lunch. I was definitely nervous about spending so much time out of the house, concerned about my stamina, and worried about eating out for the first time since I started my program. All in all, though, I did great!

I was out for about four hours, and while I was exhausted and my knee and ankle were hurting by the time I got home, I recovered much more quickly than I would have a month ago. I guess all this walking is doing some good! We ended up going to a Thai restaurant for lunch. Thai is one of my favorite types of food, and I usually eat dishes with lots of noodles or rice. I was planning to find something like grilled chicken, but I ended up with "Laotian Cabbage Rolls"...which weren't actually rolls at all, but highly seasoned ground chicken with chopped green beans and cabbage triangles to scoop it up with. It was really, really good, and while I obviously wasn't able to get an exact carb count, I know it was low.

Wednesday
Breakfast: 1 egg, scrambled, 3 pieces bacon - 1.55g
Lunch: Salad with egg, bacon, pepperoni, cheese, ranch - 5.99g
Snack: None
Dinner: 6 oz ham steak, 1 1/3 cups frozen green beans - 12g
Dessert: None
Total veggies: 7g
Total: 19.54g

Thursday
Breakfast: 1 egg, scrambled, 3 pieces bacon - 1.55g
Lunch: Laotian Cabbage Rolls - unknown
Snack: 1 oz almonds - 2g
Dinner: Laotian Cabbage Rolls - unknown
Dessert: None
Total: Unknown

I've had a couple of suggestions that my intake seems to be high in sodium, so I've been looking into that over the last couple of days. My diet doesn't seem particularly salty to me, but I'm a bit of a salt fiend, so my opinion isn't necessarily reliable. The RDA of sodium is 2400mg, and it does seem that I've been well over that on a number of days. The main problem seems to be ham. On days when I have ham for lunch or dinner - or both - my salt number is through the roof. I've never really had much of a problem with water retention or high blood pressure, which I believe are the main issues with high salt consumption, but it's certainly not going to hurt me to keep an eye on my sodium intake and try to keep it under control.