It’s the last day of my dietbet! Yeah!!! Yesterday I was good! Yesterday my husband thought he was good. But this morning, while I maintained my loss even after a dinner meeting, he put back on 2 pounds!
Needless to say, he is very frustrated, but, in looking at what he ate, he didn’t do bad. He had a serving of sweet potato fries + 2 vegan sausage patties for breakfast. The calories were only 300 and that is the same as his morning oatmeal + chia + cinnamon + sugar! So what was wrong there?
For Lunch he had a serving of sweet potato fries + 1 vegan chicken patty. Again only 300 calories. I forget the snacks I packed for him, but I am pretty sure it was carrots, an apple and a fiber one bar. There may have been a serving of cheese in there. I switch it up daily or I try to.
We agreed to have dinner at home and just a dry garden salad with water or tea at the dinner meeting. So Dinner was one Fish Fillet and a serving of chick peas and a serving of cottage cheese. Maybe 350 calories in dinner. At the restaurant he had the garden salad (which was huge) and vinegar and oil on the side. I just had tea.
Upon coming home I think we might have each had a fiber bar and a serving of cheese. Not a bad calories day at all! He’s usually not this strict but we are within 48 hours of a dietbet ending and he still had a pound to go! – that was yesterday.
This morning he was up a pound! What went wrong?
Let’s add up the sodium.
Sweet potato fries are 150 mg of sodium a serving. He had 2 servings yesterday.
Vegan sausage patties are 230 mg a patty and he had two.
Vegan Chicken patties are 380 mg a patty and he had one.
Fiber one bars are 90 mg sodium (salt) a bar and he had two.
Cottage cheese even, the low fat, has 350 mg a serving!
Those chickpeas were canned and it says 330 mg a serving there!
Totaling up 2000 gr sodium and that does not include what the restaurant might have added to his salad and the salad dressing! Dietary guidelines say we should have 2300mg but only 1500 if you are over 51 or black? Or have high blood pressure? ..(maybe all of us should shoot for 1500???)
Now we need some salt. All animals need some salt. However, when you are within 48 hours of a dietbet weighout. You might want to track milligrams of sodium as well as you count your calories. As salt does tend to help us retain water!
Good luck and eat healthy!