Hello! I am a newbie and I am looking for a buddy. Due to health reasons, I have to lose weight or else!! I live in Illinois, but would welcome a buddy from any geographical location. I am also looking for advice on low salt low fat recipes as my major health issue is my blood pressure.

Hi there! Welcome to the site. I've been a member for a whole week now...haha...but it's been a successful week and there is a TON of encouragement to be found here!

I am not familiar with sodium restrictions but I did just find out about Accent...do you know anything about it? I just made something that called for it on Saturday and it turned out really great. I know it's a salt substitute but don't know if it's considered low enough in sodium to work for you....

Feel free to send a PM my way at any time!

Tricia

Chipper,

I'm in Illinois TOO!!! How funny is that? I for many reasons have to lose this weight! I have sleep apnea and am on BiPap. I would love to buddy up! I'm new to 3FC also. Just been cruising the boards trying to find some inspiration. I'm just starting over on the diet today.

I'll PM u my yahoo messenger ID

I wont be on there til later tonight when I get off work. I can't have IM here. Bummmmer. Or email or PM me.

Michele

Chipper, Where in Il. are you? I grew up in Galesburg and my sister still lives there, DH and I are going up for T'giving. I am in SC, and anything I can give you in the way of encouragement, I will. The salt thing was a problem for me too, but I just gave it up, took about 3 months to get used to but now I can't remember why I used so much. One of the big things with sodium is diet drinks, and the only thing I have found is the Diet Rite flavors are all sodium free, but was on WW several months before I started drinking them, I just drank H2O for the longest time so it would become habit, and found that the more H2O I drank, the less edema I had at the end of a day working on my feet for 12 hours. Hang in there girl, you can do it!