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I would say it also depends on how much you are over. I never had high blood pressure or any other issues. Suddenly a year ago I had a heart attack and now my doctor put me on a low sodium diet. So I am below the common MFP recommendation of 2300 at a goal of 1300mg a day. A lot of days I manage that, other days not. I…

I'm also on a low sodium diet per doctor's orders. I've been eating quite a bit of salmon since i started on that diet in January and honestly I cannot believe your salmon data. (or I will be totally frustrated now since I ate way more sodium than I thought over the past few months...) Here is what I usually log: Kroger -…

The question for me is, what kind of recipes did you use so far or which recipes did you type into myfitnesspal? I'm on a low sodium diet and I started by switching all ingredients to the lowest sodium version I could get. So Chili will be made with no salt added kidney beans, any chicken recipe has now the Kroger simple…

Same question here. I got a new fitbit flex and it is synced with MFP. I had calories left over the other night and closed with "She was under her calorie goal". I put the fitbit to sleep tracking mode and went to sleep. The next morning I open MFP and suddenly I had obviously eaten more than my calorie goal. Not much, but…

I would not set a distinct weight goal for your wedding. This is "the" day of your life. Set your goal to: "Dancing through the night", which means your then to be husband has to get fit with you ;-)

The first time around on MFP was for being able to rum with my kids. I am an "older" mother and when my kids are teenagers I will hit 50... I just want to be able to keep up with them. I wanted to do that again starting at the end of last year, when a health scare hit me with an almost heart attack.... Now I really have a…

I think that most of the frozen veggies are not too bad. I just always check the labels as many "mixed veggies" like the mentioned stir fry veggies have quite a bit of salt added and that does not go well with my low sodium requirement. So I will usually buy the "individual" frozen veggies and happily combine whatever is…

yoghurt, red and yellow (and all other colors) peppers, apple slices with peanut butter, etc. Also, check out if there is maybe a microwave available, then you could bring leftovers or soups and warm it up.

Most recipes on the internet providing the "calories per portion" information also provide a "serves X" information. Where the X stands for the number of people you can "feed". Most of the time the "portion" is equal to "1 serving". So if your recipes states "serves 4" divide the whole finished dish into 4 equal parts and…

I have started to eat low sodium at the beginning of the year, but I am one of the "typical" cases and have to be lean and low sodium. But I think you can do a lot low sodium and still eat any calories. So here are some recommendations: First of all I'm living in the US and here they add quite often a "solution" to meats.…

I have a family now, but I remember that I did more fast food or chips/beer evenings when I was living on my own during college times. It is always better to have friends for cooking. You can either cook together or just have one sitting at the kitchen table while the other prepares the food. You can catch up on a lot of…

If you have an RV maybe you can also take a small microwave to steam veggies? Also, corn on the cob on the grill is just fantastic. Just don't add too much butter ;-) Also instead of all the burgers etc, go for chicken breasts or small steaks. Should have way less fat (and sodium). And I would add lots of salads to the…

First of all I agree that you might want to talk to your dr. first. Then you might also want to look into Pilates. There is mat Pilates and also a "machine" Pilates. I do the second. It has done me a lot of good for my core muscles.

After we changed to salt free/ low sodium we started cooking a lot of veggies with onion powder. Even the so called "salt potatoes", a typical German side dish which calls for about 1.5 teaspoons of salt in the water tastes very well with onion powder instead of the salt. Another replacement I use is to boil veggies and…

I use the Aldi Fit&Active Instant Brown Rice and cook it with low sodium chicken broth.

Hidden Valley Farmhouse Originals - Pomegranate Vinaigrette It is not Fat Free, but much lower in sodium than most other store bought dressings (only 100mg per 2TBSP). And I think it is very yummy

So many ideas ???? I see lots of spinach in our diet in the future! Thanks!

I am on a cardiac diet for heart reasons. I should have only 7% of my calorie intake in saturated fats. So I use cheese in moderation and then only the low fat versions. I'm getting pretty good at using olive oil in many recipes etc. So the spinach comes in for the "Increase your intake of fruits, vegetables, whole grains,…

Wow, many great ideas. I will try the smoothies.... I also like the olive oil garlic combination. That with some spaghetti, sounds pretty good. I think I have some new ideas I will need to try over the next couple of weeks Thanks for all the great ideas!

Spaghetti sauce sounds good. I will have to try that. If you put it on pizza, will it not get "burned" or just totally dried up?

That's an idea :-) We were talking anyway of eating tacos this week. Usually we would have some lettuce to add to them, but spinach might do the job (even better)

Not yet. Somehow green smoothies seem kind of weird to me. But maybe I should give it a try. What else do you add to it besides the spinach?

If you have fit&active soup, I guess that you are shopping at Aldi's? Before you start making your own chicken stock or just for those days where you do not have enough time to do so, consider buying the "Simply Nature - Organic, Free Range Chicken Broth, Low Sodium" from Aldi. It only has 5 cal per cup and is (compared to…

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I'm also on the low fat/ fat free diet by doctor's orders. I'm also on a low sodium diet. I eat a lot of chicken strips, have a low fat/low sodium salad dressing, eat cereal with fat free milk. Anything that has fat usually has to be the "healthier fat" like olive oil, nuts, almonds, fish. I also bought one of the George…

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This is my ice cream now: Healthy Choice - Vanilla Bean Frozen Greek Yogurt, 1 bowl I like it and it fits right into my diet. not every day, but once or twice a week

I am on a low sodium diet per doctor's order since the beginning of the year. I can go up to 1500mg, but a lot of days I am staying around 300-500. (I did not really look out for it before, but my guess is that most days I have been at 3000+mg of sodium.) I just had to learn to read all the food labels very very careful…

I found one the other day at the food coop, but I found also that you can buy it in other stores. It is a local producer. The one I found is "Screamin Mimi's Sweet Hot Salsa" (also available in hotter and hottest) with 25 cal and only 15mg of Sodium in a 2 tablespoon serving. This is Kentucky local. I found one or two…