Thursday, July 24, 2008

Is lack of bad news good news, or is it neutral?

Well I didn't weigh in this morning so how bad of a day can it be? Yesterday I ended up going to see my wife at work (she works at a hospital) because she wanted me to get my blood pressure taken. It has been high for my spry 32 years and she has been worried. We had a nurse take it and it registered 120/65! That is the best it has been in a long time. She still set up an appointment for me to get cholesterol and whatnots measured. That is good I guess. Anyway onto the FOOD for yesterday!

Breakfast:
2 Sausage Patties
LC Ketchup
Venti SB Coffee w/ HC&Splenda

Lunch:
Green beans (4carbs)
Chicken Tenderloins w/ Cheese
4 Strips bacon!

Dinner:
3/4lb of chicken tenders w/ Broccoli Chinese style (more below)

So for dinner I decided I was going to flavor up some chicken tenders spicy chinese style. =)

I used:
3/4lb Chicken Tenders
1 Package frozen Broccoli
.5T Pepper flakes
1T Garlic Powder
Lots of Soy Sauce (3-4T)
2T Olive Oil
.5T Seasame Seed Oil
Salt and Pepper
1T butter

Prep work:
Ran water on broccoli
Chopped up chicken in 1 inch pieces
Heat pan with Olive Oil and Sesame Seed Oil

The steps:
- Throw the chicken in the hot oil, add pepper flakes, garlic, salt pepper let it cook for about 2-3 minutes at high heat and flip the chicken around so it semi-browns but does not burn

- Add some soy sauce to chicken, mix around and let it reduce with the chicken in it for about 1-2 minutes

- Add broccoli, add more garlic, pepper flakes, salt and pepper, let broccoli heat through with chicken for a couple of minutes

- Add more soy sauce, stir every so often, let soy reduce out (you can add some sirachi hot sauce or what not be careful it is carb loaded, but powerful in little bursts) Another 2-3 minutes

- With soy reduced, broccoli very warm and steaming add in 1T of butter and flip pan around till it melts and creates a nice buttery soy coating on your food. It should just be a coating and there should be little residual liquid. It is important that you have either broccoli you have soaked and semi-thawed and dryed, or fresh to decrease the amount of reducing time you need.

Anyway it worked for me, it was spicy, buttery and soy soy salty.

Hopefully when I weigh in tomorrow things will be better. I have my doubts. I really don't understand what is going on. Even Calories wise at 328 pounds I should lose weight on any diet that is less than 2500 calories and I am eating 1800-2000 I would imagine. I have done many diets where I count calories and have a pretty good feel for it.

Hope you all are having a great day. I have to do some work!

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