Welp, a day later, but I still managed to post “daily” updates for every day in the last week. Baby steps?
The images show I didn’t exercise. That out of the way …
As noted in my last update, I planned to over-eat on Christmas Eve Day and compensated for that by planning to under-eat the next two days in order to meet my goals for the week, which I did. Christmas featured my left-over pizza, and then a new recipe for me: Orange Chicken.
I had tried making it once before using a different recipe, and let’s just say it did NOT turn out well. I used a very different recipe this time, begatten from searching for quick flavo(u)rful meals, since I’m really tired of spending over an hour in the kitchen sometimes when I have other work to do. I found a few websites with even fewer things that looked like both I and the bf would like, and even fewer of those looked like they could be cooked in the stated 20 or 30 minutes. I mean, come on— if your recipe has 30 ingredients with 10 different vegetables that all have to be chopped, plus meat, plus other stuff, there is no way that’s a 30-minute dish. I mean, sure, 30 minutes after your prep cook has spent two hours getting everything ready, now THAT’s believable.
Anyway, this is the first of the half-dozen recipes I saved, and it really did only take 30 minutes, even with adding the rice and broccoli, and it was pretty good (and several friends asked for the recipe as a result), and incredibly macro-friendly (≈400 calories, ≈7 gms fat, ≈14 gms carbs, and about 60 gms protein … depending on exactly how much chicken you use). Other recipes I downloaded to try: Ginger ground beef, mango chutney chicken, chicken tortilla soup, kung pao chicken, thai basil beef, white chicken chili, and teriyaki chicken & broccoli. I won’t be trying a new one of those until next week, though (Jan. 03) because of other food that requires vegetables that’ll go bad before then.
Meanwhile, I’ll just note on this since I’m NOT doing a week-end summary: Sodium this week shot back up from the last two, though the bf didn’t suffer from that. The reason is my pizza, which, because of the mountains of pepperoni and pickled banana peppers that I put on it, has about 4500 mg of sodium. Without that, I would’ve averaged 2500 mg per day, a respectable amount but slightly over the 2400 mg goal. Instead, it was 3150/day, +37% above my goal.
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