You can't pass me the cheese - too high in sodium!! Actually I do a wee bit
of cheese about 1/2 an ounce with my chef's salad. I miss the cheeses and
the other dairy products. I love yogurt but it's too high in salt, sugar and
other carbohydrates. But the cheese is a real problem and like you it was a
mainstay of my diet before all this no salt stuff! Sometimes I just want
something so I have a bite. Not ten bites! LOL

I don't think anything I'm buying now will fit me in another few months. I
probably have another 40 pounds to lose before I need to worry about being
too thin. LOL But the weight is coming off slowly. Maybe I should invest in
suspenders? LOL
Bev

I drink something constantly, water, ice tea, coffee, something is always
nearby in the form of liquid! I've always been a juice drinker and now that
is gone. So I bought a package of little orange juice cartons. I can open a
little carton and pour just a sip. Then I don't open a big carton and have
it sit and lose the vit C. Usually my husband will drink the little
container after I've opened it. I tend to follow cravings as I think our
body craves what it needs. My desire for fruit went way up so if I have an
ounce or two once in a while that's okay. This summer I was drinking more
iced tea with lemon in it but as it has cooled down I'm not drinking as much
iced tea so not as much lemon. Guess I should just take some Vit C tablets
but it's much more fun to drink it!
Bev

The lettuce I got was Simpson and it doesn't form a head so I can just keep
picking the outer leaves. But I'll probably plant about 1/2 of it and then
plant the other half more towards Feb unless I happen to lose what I have to
the cold. I also bought some spinach so I can mix some baby spinach leaves
into my salad. I haven't found any other "lettuce" seeds locally.

Unfortunately I didn't get them in the ground today, maybe tomorrow.

This bunny rabbit needs her fresh supply of lettuce and tomatoes!! Tomatoes
will be a bigger problem as the season wears on. I might try to put a tomato
cutting into my cold frame.
Bev

Hi Bev,
well girl you are doing "fab" and sticking to it.  That is wonderful and
you should be so very proud of  yourself too.

About the headaches, like they all mentioned it could be due to many things
and needs to be told to the doctor.  BUT it also might mean you are
"missing" something in your diet too.  I suggest after you tell the doctor,
to call someone like a dietician at a clinic or hospital and mention the
low salt diet and ask for some advice.  Now they may say, you need an order
for them to do that, but I doubt it very much.
It is all a matter of change of habit in your intake and what you are
missing.

I do know sometimes that the meds will do that but you have been on the bp
med for long enough to have them headaches dimish by now.  I for the life
of me can not remember the drug?  If you look it up on www.rxlist.com see
if it is a nitrate type drug or side effects such as headaches. And
remember our talk on the phone, your bp will go up with LOTS of stuff but
the average is the one you look at.
Plus since weight loss it might get even better for you.
Lake of salt sometimes works to our disadvantage too, so watch out about
that.  Has something to do with potassium too and PLEASE do not take
potassium unless ORDERED by a doctor.  Some feel it is good for you but it
is VERY Hard on heart and kidneys as well.  Over the counter is NOT a good
thing unless supervised by the doc and ordered.

please keep in touch
hugs
janers
WAY TO GO BEV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My head was killing me this morning and my BP was not low!! I've wondered
about my glasses but if that was it - well, then it should be a constant
headache.

Oh, yeah, I don't do anything fast or I get real dizzy. Especially if I lean
over to do something. Whoa!!! I've been on this med since June 3 - I think
by now I should be acclimated to it.
Bev

I've watched what I've eaten and I can't say to makes a whole bunch of
difference. If I've eaten something high in salt it might show up 24 hours
later in my BP or right away then again it might not show up at all. I can't
figure it out.
Bev

Actually, I do eat a little ham. I buy the low salt deli (sandwich) ham. And
as long as I don't have but 1 or 2 thin (shaved) slices on my salad I'm OK.
That's less than an ounce so that is not much at all. I think I've driven
the folks behind the counter at the deli nuts asking them to read the sodium
content of all the different lunch meats. It's amazing how much they vary
from brand to brand!!  I can buy a half pound (8 ounces) of low salt ham and
get 3 sandwiches for the granddaughter out of it plus what I use on my
salads. She get a whole lot more on her sandwiches. So I'm sure I'm well
under an ounce per day. But I have not had a regular ham, as in a dinner
ham. Which I miss, and always loved. And I've not had any pork. I know pork
used to be a big no-no but I have no idea why.

This is a crappy way to lose weight. I just hope maybe you are gaining a few
of the pounds I've lost! I'd like to send you a few more of mine.

I do really miss certain things but like I said before if I really want
something I'll have a taste. I've taken a nip off a cookie and then gave the
cookie my granddaughter. I've had a bite of cake - enough to taste it. But I
don't do that all the time. Sometimes when I do that I decide something is
way too sweet! But I tried it so I don't feel deprived.

Sometimes I get really hungry!! But I was never a junk food junkie. I love
my breads, pastas and potatoes. I miss some of that. I will admit I've
always been a cookie monster especially when it comes to homemade cookies. I
don't want to think about things like cheesecake! LOL

No, the hardest thing is getting the salt out of the diet. Everything has
salt in it!! Anything pre-made is soaked in salt. Meals out are almost
impossible due to the amount of salt. I really have been very careful about
the salt. What makes this so hard is knowing I'll never be able to go back
to eating like a normal person. This is a forced life-style change. There is
no cheating. If I have a taste of something then it has to count towards the
whole day's intake.

Maybe I'll write a book on 1000 Salad Dressing Recipes that are low in salt,
etc. LOL
Bev