Renal Diet Headquarters Podcast 053 – Eating On The Go With Kidney Disease

Eating On The Go With Kidney Disease Podcast #53 Released on August 2, 2017 Welcome to the Renal Diet Headquarters podcast with your host, Mathea Ford, CEO of Renal Diet Headquarters. This is our weekly talk about how you can succeed with a kidney diet. Brought to you by renaldiethq.com, a website whose mission is to be the most valued resource on kidney disease that people can use to improve their health. Hey, y'all. This is Mathea Ford with Renal Diet Headquarters, renaldiethq.com. And I'm going to go live today like I promised you I'm going to do every day in August. And today I want to talk about when you have a pre dialysis diet, which is stage one, stage two. You can have some changes, but mostly you're eating healthier. You're eating more whole grains. You're eating more fruits and vegetables, more like a dash diet or lots of grains, fruits and vegetables, that type of stuff. And then there's stage three, which is there's stage three A, stage three B, that depends on your labs a little bit. And that's when you start to have some changes where you need to start doing things a little different. And then it's telling me to do all these strange things. Then there's stage four and stage five. And as you get to stage five, you get to the point where you're considering dialysis. You're starting to get the sense placed and the different access provided and stuff like that. So, I'm really talking about stage three, stage four. If you're in stage one, stage two, my encouragement to you is just to eat healthier, eat more whole grains, eat fruits and vegetables, drink more water. But, when you're talking about stage three, stage four, as you move towards stage five, then those are when you need to make some changes. So, the first thing that I would suggest to you to do is just to really know what you want to eat and what is the reason why you're eating out. So, if you're eating on the go, if you know you're going out and you know you're going to be out all day, like, happens to me a lot. I'll have to run the kids different places. If I know I'm going to do that and I know there's not going to be a lot of good time to eat or there's not a good choice that I would have to eat, then I'm going to try to plan ahead and look at what is available. So, is there a Subway or a sandwich shop? Or am I going to eat fast food? Am I going to try to find a restaurant? I'm trying to think about what types of things I'm doing that are going to be able to make me able to eat a healthier meal. Let me look at my notes. Hey, thanks. When you know ahead of time what you're doing, then you can plan those things. So, if you know what type of restaurant it is, you can look ahead and see what type of things that they have that are things you might want to eat. If it's a Subway sandwich shop, you might see that, okay, they have white or whole grain bread. You're not going to get the extra stuff. What kind of sandwiches are you going to get? What kind of things can you add? One of my favorite places to eat, and my kids too, is Genghis Grill, and they love that place because they can add what they want. You go through like a little salad bar area and you just pick and choose what you want. And then you hand it to them at the end and they cook it with the sauce or whatever additional things you want. And you have a super large amount of control over your food that you're eating. So, doing that is a good idea. Just doing a little bit of planning ahead is when you can really make the best choices. If you're caught out or if you're over at a friend's house and they're like, hey, let's go have some lunch. Know what kind of places you can go to that are going to have good choices for you. Low sodium, lots of fruits and vegetables, good choices, lots of choice with your food. So you can tell them, I want this on it.