Went out to lunch and felt very virtuous getting the Chipotle Lime Chicken at Applebees for 13 WW points. (I even said no when my daughter -- who is at the first percentile for BMI and needs to gain weight -- offered me an onion ring and I love onion rings).

So I get home and enter it on WW then go to MyPlate to enter it (since I record there as well). Oh, my! It is has 5250 grams of sodium! I couldn't believe it. Not sure why, must have something to do with the chipotle lime salsa but still....

WOW! I just had that for lunch! It was so good but didn't think about sodium intake. Maybe I should start monitoring that, might explain my sudden issue with the scale increasing even though I dropped nursing points and added in exercise.

I really tried this past week to watch my sodium the couple of days before weigh in. I think the week before a higher sodium day before weigh in was why I didn't lose anything.

A lot of times restaurants inject a salty brine into the chicken to make it juicier and tastier than standard chicken (although, much of the chicken sold in stores these days has the same salty injections)...that could be part of it~

ahh yes i've read that about the salty chicken( the labels on frozen chicken say they've got some sort of solution on it. but if it's injected then it wouldn't wash off or come of with the skin removed either.

thanks for the warning. i'll strategically eat that lime chicken at applebees cuz it sounds really good!

I just make sure to check the labels... Sometimes the salt water solution is like 15% of the weight! I just don't like paying $x.xx per pound for salt water, lol

Looking on their menu their is one of their highest sodium items...go figure. Perhaps something in the salsa, just not sure.