Pickles are NOT my friend.

GAH! My blood pressure was up again today (it has to be taken before and after every workout because it was so high when I started). The bottom number was 92! She and I discussed it and the only reasonable explanation is sodium.

Yesterday after weigh in I celebrated with some of those yellow/banana peppers, and also I have been eating a lot of turkey pastrami this week. So I went and looked it up- the turkey pastrami by Jenny O has 700 mg sodium per serving. EEK! That's about twice what regular lunch meat has.

Now I already confessed that I need to cut back on the lunch meat, I know it has sodium and also it's not nearly as good for me as cooking my own meat, but I have been lazy. But I won't ever get to stop getting my blood pressure checked until I consistently have the bottom number in the 70's and that won't happen with all this salt.

So, back to the drawing board- this weekend's goal: Cook some chicken and lean ground beef. Find some easy recipes (with ingredients I'll have) for keeping the meat moist and tasty. And remember, mother is always right- she has been on me about sodium for years!