How Something so Innocuous can Turn Into a Literal Pain
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I had been doing better than I thought I would on this label reading diet. It takes me three times longer to do grocery shopping because I have to read every. single. label. Talk about a job. But I had no clue how much sodium there is in literally everything. I cheated once and that was Five Guys french fries. I wanted Thrasher’s but I wasn’t willing to drive more than 30 minutes away to get them. Five Guys is the next best thing. I didn’t add any salt but I did add enough balsamic vinegar to them that it ate through two brown paper bags and a handful of napkins. It’s the vinegar that makes the french fries so it is what it is.
Yesterday though I was hungry and was over with eating fruits and vegetables and not much of anything else. So I ordered Domino’s online and rolled through their drive-through to pick it up. When I got back I threw down on the garlic knots and some pizza and lava cake. #dontjudge
Within what seemed like no time at all my left leg started in. It had some pain in it and had started to swell.
One order of knots.
Gawd.
So now today I have the compression sock back on. I had been a week give or take without having to wear it. So now I know that no sodium means no sodium. No exceptions. No cheats.
Damn.
This is going to be harder than I thought it was going to be. I went through physical withdrawals from the “popcorn” that I used to eat. I’d blow through four bags in three days. Come to find out there is a sodium count of 1350 per bag. Your daily limit should be under 2000. Some cardiologists will say 1000.
For the first few days, I felt like I was crawling out of my own skin trying not to go out and buy any. I had a small bag of it in my hands and turned it over and thought about it. But in the end, I put it back on the shelf.
Ya gotta take those small wins when and where you can!
