A Merry Life

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:31 PM PDT

Last week I said I was going to blog my food on the weekends and now one week later I’ve missed a weekend. Bad Mary!

This past weekend was so busy and I ended up eating at a lot of places where photos of food weren’t appropriate… like a wedding!

wedding

My lovely friends got married this weekend so Kepa and I were there to celebrate with them. I felt super cute getting dressed up.

Mary wedding photo

The wedding was in the lovely Cornwall Park with a gorgeous view of most of South Auckland.

auckland south

The wedding reception was at a Chinese restaurant which was a lot of fun since it was a new experience for me. I ate a few bites from several course but skipped quite a few. I couldn’t get over a chicken head on the plate so I skipped the chicken and fish and anything that could look at me.

chinese restaurant

Despite that I did eat a few things and the sodium level in everything was off the charts. We ate out again on Sunday and that ended up being majorly salty as well. I weighed in afterwards and learned a fun lesson in sodium and water retention. I’m hoping drinking lots of water today and tomorrow will bring me back to normal by my official weigh in this week. I’m definitely laying off the salt for a while!

Kepa is trying to cut back on salt too because he doesn’t want to deal with high blood pressure so we are going to start cooking without salt. For the most part we already do this but there are still a few things where salt gets added. Restaurants are a big problem so we will have to be careful there too. The goal is low salt, low sugar, high health. Bye, bye sodium!

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