08 Oct 2014 16 Comments
Please Don’t Pass the Salt!
This is Month 10 (10? Can you believe it!) of my made-up Sparkle Plan. What’s the Sparkle Plan? Check out the first post here.
We all have our taste preferences. Mine happens to lean – like Leaning Tower of Pisa-lean – toward salt. When confronted, I will always pick chips over ice cream, popcorn over chocolate, Cheese Nips over, well, anything.
My favorite pizza is with extra cheese and anchovies.
I like bread and cheese and wine and SALT!
See where I’m going? Yeah, my body figured out I was on a downward salt spiral and so did my doctor.
Doctor’s Orders: KNOCK IT OFF WITH THE SALT.
But kind of in a more serious way. Like a “you’re actually sick and swollen” kind of way. So I have been put on a low-to-no salt diet.
The plus side to this heinous act against nature is that I’ve dropped four pounds in a week. The negative side… Very. Long. List. Alas, I know I can do…
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