Official "Starting Point"

Aug 29, 2016

***264.8***

Yessss... we are liking that number! 

When I had my surgery in 2005, the lowest weight I had achieved was 265 lbs. I am now below that and feel like this is my "official starting point". I am no longer losing re-gained weight! This makes me feel that I am absolutely BACK ON TRACK!

My next goal is to get to 250 lbs. and go down from there in 25 lb intervals. It makes getting below 200 feel do-able.

I bought a new shaker cup. I like it much better. My old one had like a "mesh" thing that sat inside the rim of the cup. Not so awesome. The new one has a big plastic thing like "jacks" that tumbles around when you shake it up. It mixes much faster/easier and does a better job at breaking up the chunks.

Found a couple of recipes that my family and I ended up really liking. I tweaked each of them a little, nothing major.

Ultra Easy Pesto Lemon Chicken Kabobs This recipe calls for chicken breasts and says to cut them into 1 inch cubes. Rather than doing this, I used chicken tenders and skewered them whole.

I also cooked them under the broiler rather than on the grill. We really liked the flavors of this one. I didn't change anything there. Delish!

Healthy Chipotle Chicken Sweet Potato Skins This one calls for canned chipotle in adobo sauce. These have quite a bit of zing. Remove the seeds from your peppers, and use an amount that works for you. I think the recipe called for three and I ended up using 2 (and that was kicky for me). But very good. I also replaced the fresh spinach leaves for frozen spinach. Just as good. Use what you have.

Also, the recipe wants you to scoop out most of the flesh (it is a recipe for "skins"), but I kept mine in and used the chicken and spinach as a topping. LOVED it!

Grilled Tilapia Bowls with Chipotle Avocado Crema Omgosh... I think this one was my favorite. Not so much the whole thing, but the seasoning on the fish, and the sauce were SO.... GOOD!! And simple. You could eat this the way they share it in the recipe (as a bowl), or make fish tacos with it. You could also use the seasoning and the sauce for chicken instead. SO GOOD. (Some things are worth reiterating).

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