Now this is Gonna be Hard

I am a big believer in everything happens for a reason, and my big gain a week or so back really made me think about the processed foods and salt in my diet. I emptied the salt shaker and started dialog with fellow weight watchers about salt. I started reading about it and really have been watching the intake.
Fast forward a week and my friend has a heart attack at age 52 and I am thinking, my cutting back may help me help her, keep fast forwarding and I find myself in a nutritionists office with my older sister whom is struggling with End Stage Liver Disease. She is on a transplant list and it is a waiting game, that has just been stepped up as her Gallbladder is acting up and must come out. For you and I that may be an easy surgery for her it is huge risk. We were in the nutritionist office as she has to limit her,,,guess? ?? Salt! Yes she knows/knew that but with the flaring of the Gallbladder she changed her diet to accommodate the pain and up went the numbers on the scale like a slot machine at a casino, Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing.... she had added a lot of broth and soups...Big NO NO.
The Nutritionist was a wealth of information and we left there armed with ideas and a plan and a tool I want to share with you guys. Calorie King is a site where you can pull up all the nutritional values on just about every food out there. Calories and what I was looking for sodium. It is an amazing tool and as I am learning today I consume a lot of sodium. I decided to log in about week of typical eating and than go from there and today as I finished my lunch here is where I am at!!
Lite soy milk with coffee 100 mg
2 Slices grain Bread 400 mg
Chicken Salad -lite 290 mg
That was my weird breakfast,,,,felt like a sandwich

Salad with Feta, croutons
and Italian dressing 740 mg

So here I sit at 1530 my recommended amount for the day, with supper still in front of me! I am up for the challenge if really getting my sodium intake under control as I really want to lead by example and help both my sister and my friend, so I think you may be hearing a lot about my trials with giving up the salt...".Just say not to salt.."
Think we could find a button for that!!!.