Originally Posted by janRN
Thanks again for such good suggestions and recipes.
I had a real eye-opener tonight. I made chicken/veggie stir fry for dinner. Healthy right? Put some soy sauce on it and then looked at the bottle: 1 tablespoon has 48%-yes 48% of your daily sodium count!! Holy cow!! I'm not a salt user, just what's in the food but 48% blew me away!! I guess I'll start reading labels BEFORE I eat something.
janRN: I haven't started paying attention to the sodium count yet, I have so many other things that I am watching, but now that I am eating a lot healthier, I can tell when I have eaten something that was high in sodium because my hands swell and my rings which have been dancing around on my fingers since I have lost so much weight already, become very tight. When that happens, I think back to what I have eaten for the past couple of meals or snacks. Usually there is something with a high sodium level. Good thing to watch out for. Thanks for mentioning it. So now there will be no soy sauce on stir fries.
Linda.