At about noon, I ate a granny smith apple and drank a glass of water.

For lunch (around 1pm), I made a small salad of baby greens.  I put a tablespoon of vinegar on the greens before adding some ranch dressing, alfalfa sprouts, Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper.  I then prepared 1/2 pound of salmon by putting it on a piece of  aluminum foil over a tablespoon of olive oil.  I topped the Salmon with a mixture of garlic (heaping teaspoon of crushed garlic), cayenne, salt, pepper and olive oil.  I baked it at 400 degrees for about 25 minutes.

The cayenne was a little strong and very little of any of the flavors came through.  I’ll have to play with that mixture a bit in the future.

In Europe, I would never be served that much meat or fish at a meal.  I ate that much salmon because of the Omega 3 fatty acids.  I have been having chest pains recently and at last check (right before surgery), I had a BP of 150/90 and a pulse of 95 at rest.

Obviously Europeans don’t worry about such things very much, but they aren’t generally overweight… so the don’t have as many heart problems and high blood pressure problems.  I believe my problem with both will go away as I lose weight, but since I love salmon so much, I thought I would give it a helping hand.

-James D. Brausch