Weight/Fluid Control

I went out and got a Jersey Mike’s sandwich for lunch. I usually just get the turkey sub but this time, I opted for the Club Supreme sub sandwich. It sounds more impressive than it really is. Just roast beef, turkey, and bacon.

I’m not going to talk about nutrition but rather weight. Jersey Mike’s sandwiches are pretty heavy. Not sure if it’s high water content in their deli meats or the vegetables, but for me, any fluid component is added to my weight. I also drank a can of soda (like I should not have), and my post lunch weight was 82.1 kg. That feels like a lot. I had one of those Jimmy Dean frozen breakfast sandwiches plus a small cup of decaf tea so everything together was about 1.0 kg or 2.2 pounds. Since a lot of the food is make of water, all that needs to come out tomorrow morning during dialysis through the machine. I think I left at 81.1 kg Saturday, so assuming the scales are somewhat similar, I’ll probably have ~2 kg to remove, and that’s okay for the three day of fluid removal.

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Just to reiterate how a lapse of self-control affects fluid balance. The can of soda was 355 mL and the Zojiroshi vacuum mug I used for the tea is 0.34 liters. Together that’s about 700 mL or about 1.5 pounds of fluids. Most people would just pee it out later but I can’t so assuming some of it is metabolized or lost through sweat, that adds ~0.5 kg to my fluid removal tomorrow.