MFP Biggest Loser - Red Team (closed)

Red Team-

The challenge this week is for us to watch our sodium intake. I'll check your food diaries daily and will keep track of your sodium intake. Julieash, I'll need you to email me your daily sodium intakes. Here's what I posted on our main MFP discussion thread:

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Everyone,

I copied this low sodium list earlier this year from one of the MFP forums. Hope it's helpful too you! Here's a list of foods that are low sodium:

Kettle Chips Unsalted
That's correct. There are chips in the universe which are prepared without additional salt! In fact, Kettle Chips Unsalted have zero milligrams of sodium per serving. One serving does contain two grams of fiber, however. The simple list of ingredients is as follows: select russet potatoes and expeller pressed high monounsaturated safflower and/or sunflower oil. Now you can eat chips while avoiding the salt!

Of course best option is to choose fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables without salt added. This is a good alternative to canned fruits and vegetables that use salt for taste and preservatives. If you eat canned vegetables rinse them and cook with water and not the juice they come with.

Newman's Own Unsalted Organic Microwave Popcorn
This filling snack only has 20mg of sodium per serving. The primary ingredient is organic popcorn. Additionally, you are sure to take in 5g of dietary fiber per serving, along with 3g of protein. All these benefits go hand in hand with its fabulous flavor.

Planning your meals around low sodium foods can help you to control the amount of sodium in your diet. Low sodium foods are those that have under 150 mg of sodium per serving. Some foods that are lower in sodium include:


Grains
•Whole grain bread
•Shredded Wheat cereal
•Puffed rice or puffed wheat cereal
•Steel cut oats
•Low salt whole grain crackers
•Whole grain pastas cooked without salt in the water
•Kaishi cereals
•Most granolas
•Health valley breakfast bars

Condiments
•Unsalted butter
•Oils
•Grey Poupon Dijon style mustard
•Herbs
•Horseradish
•Vinegar
•Jams and jellies
•Heinz or Hunts ketchup (between 0 to 6 mg)
•Spectrum roasted garlic mayonnaise
•Hain Eggless mayonnaise

Dairy
•Low salt cheeses
•Sour cream
•Ice cream
•Skim milk

Proteins
•Unprocessed meats and poultry (chicken, beef, fish - avoid bacon, lunch meat and deli meats)
•Eggs
•Unsalted nuts
•Rinsed low sodium canned meats
•Unsalted nut butters

Fruits and Vegetables
•All fresh fruits
•All fresh vegetables
•Low or no salt canned fruits and vegetables
•Low or no salt canned tomato sauce

Snacks
•Air popped popcorn, unsalted
•Bearito's Little Bear and Blue corn chips
•Guiltless Gourmet unsalted corn chips
•Tostito's Natural corn chips
•Most fruit chips
•Kettle salt-free potato chips
•Terra brand chips
•New York Style plain bagel and pita chips
•Weight watchers cheese curls
•Keebler Town House low sodium crackers
•Nabisco low sodium triscuits and wheat thinks
•Goldfish crackers

Convenience Foods
•Healthy Choice frozen meals
•Campbells low sodium soups
•Health Valley beef and chicken broths
•Nature's promise chicken broth
•Pacific Natural chicken broth
•Health Valley vegetarian chili
•Health Valley soups
•Amy's Organic Lite foods
•Lean Cuisine - Pasta with Tomato Basil sauce and Chicken a L'Orange
•Gorton's Grilled Fish fillets
•Mrs. Paul's Flounder Fillets
•Tyson's Breaded Chicken Breast Tenders
•Kid Cuisine Primo Pepperoni Pizza (frozen)
•Hot Pockets Toaster Breaks, Double Cheese
•Cascadian Farm Organic oven fries, hash browns and country-style potatoes
•Simply Potatoes shredded hash browns

Red Team,

Here are our standings as of Wed, 9/28:

sarahkova - 2,077; 2,749; 3,530 = 8,356
Elbee1 - hasn’t logged in for the last 5 days
narenn - 3,852; 2,124; 2,731 = 8,707
Julieash - food diary not available
OkieWorkout - 3,510; 3,229; 2,731 = 9,470

Team total - 26,533

Elbee1 - Come back! We miss you!

Julieash - I know you usually don't log your foods. If this is still the case, please make sure you sent me your weight for Friday.

All - I'll post the final for the week on Saturday morning. Be sure to get me your weights!

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You're right sarahkova - Keeping sodium down IS hard. I have raw almonds at my desk. I'll try them today!

Oh, y'all! I feel so bad about this. I've been out of town. It was unexpected trip and I had two 8 hour drives. I had to eat/snack to stay awake. I know that I blew it for our team as I had way too much sodium. Sorry Team!

Oh, and thanks for the congrats for last week...
Linda

The Red Team & alibaba0310,

Here are our totals for the week:

sarahkova - 2,077; 2,749; 3,530; 2,283; 2,582 = 13,221. Weight - 308.0
Elbee1 - 2,150; 2,940; 3,673; 1,281; 1,692 = 11,736. Weight - 146.4
narenn - 3,852; 2,124; 2,731; 3,806; 3,288 = 15,801. Weight - 216.1
Julieash - not counting sodium. Weight - 162.2
OkieWorkout - 3,510; 3,229; 2,731; 3,040; 2,927 = 15,437. Weight - 249.2

Team total - 56,195

Go Red Team! This week everyone either lost weight OR stayed the same! You've gotta like that!

Monita

Yay, Red Team!!! We done good!

Yay RED TEAM!!!!!! We won the weight loss portion of the challenge thanks to Sarah's huge loss!

I just posted on the main thread some ideas for our next challenge. I was thinking of doing boxing-punch combos and another person thought we could do my nutritional idea and eat more veggies. I say we can do both! Why don't you get on the main thread & let all know what you think! I think we need a decision for tomorrow morning.

Again, great job team!

I am so close to dropping this challenge...it is so unorganized. It is frustrating!

Please don't go.....alibaba0310 just got back with us concerning the challenge. It's a fruit & veggie week for us! I sure hope that you notice that I'm trying to have organization here.

I have put in my fruits and veggies servings as best as I can see it or understand it in the notes...

Great! I'll post a progress report tonight. I don't know about you but these fruits and veggies are cleaning me out! I am literally lighter each and every day of this week thus far!