Hi everyone ! Lets keep the momentum going! January challenges help start the year off right!

Info needed: Surgery status, losing/maintaining, weight, goal (challenge specific)

Start Jan 2nd -Starting weight

End Feb 1st - Ending weight

To kick it up notch there will be incentives!!! From a city I have a complicated relationship with lol...

shhhhh, it's a surprise for the winners

Adding a few fun rules I found on Instagram (follow her!) you can throw in to maximize participation!!! Let's keep it fun!!!

Stay engaged and accountable. Participate as much as you like!

Even pre ops can participate with the 30 Day Challenge rules as well!

Allons y !!!

Edited December 26, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

17. Today's meal - only have a photo of lunch so far

Ok, here's 1st Brekky, 2nd Brekky, and mid-morning matcha break! Will be back later today with more "riveting" food action!

Protein Latte

The food as it was served to me. Holy crap--alotta food!

My portion after I gave 1/2 or more of it away and traded for some avocado!

My portion after I ate my 3/4-1cup of food

Mid-morning matcha break (cheers @GreenTealael)--hey, why does your's look so much greener/prettier? Mine is a greenish brown powder (organic from Vitacost).

Edited January 17, 20197 yr by FluffyChix

3 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

Ok, here's 1st Brekky, 2nd Brekky, and mid-morning matcha break! Will be back later today with more "riveting" food action!

Protein Latte

The food as it was served to me. Holy crap--alotta food!

My portion after I gave 1/2 or more of it away and traded for some avocado!

My portion after I ate my 3/4-1cup of food

Mid-morning matcha break (cheers @GreenTealael)--hey, why does your's look so much greener/prettier? Mine is a greenish brown powder (organic from Vitacost).

Creamer ❤ (latte)

My meals in photos today. I ate my brekky before I remembered, woops, but it was two slices of gouda cheese & 100 gms of lowfat vanilla yoghurt. Lunch was antipasto plate. Snack of an apple and a mandarin. Dinner was chilli con carne, guac and nonfat yoghurt. Evening snack of protein water popsicle.

1 minute ago, ummyasmin said:

My meals in photos today. I ate my brekky before I remembered, woops, but it was two slices of gouda cheese & 100 gms of lowfat vanilla yoghurt. lunch was antipasto plate. snack of an apple and a mandarin. dinner was chilli con carne, guac and nonfat yoghurt. Evening snack of Protein Water popsicle.

YUM! Tell us about your chili!

YUM! Tell us about your chili!

Actually it was pretty nom. So I try and put extra veg in, whatever I've got but today I used this:

Ingredients=
3 tsp oil
1 large onion, diced
2 carrots
3 cloves garlic
1 capsicum, cut into chunks
3/4 cup of chicken stock (I make my own when I cook a chook)
600 gms mushrooms, sliced into chunks
500 gms ground beef
2 cans chopped tomatoes
2 cans kidney beans
1 tbsp sugar alternative eg Candarella
2 tbsp Spice Mix or to taste

Spice Mix=
Salt & pepper
Ground cumin
Paprika
Cayenne pepper
Oregano
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Seasoning salt

(I usually make a jar of this up and keep it in the fridge)

Method=
1. Heat the oil. In a pot and then brown the onions
2. In a blender, pulse the carrots and garlic, then add that to the browned onions. You want to caramalise the carrots until you get sticky bits on the bottom of the pot.
3. Add the capsicum pieces and sweat them down a little, scraping all the sticky bits off the bottom of the pan (they're packed with flavour).
4. Add the chicken stock.
5. In a separate flat pan, brown the ground beef so that any fat cooks off or drain off any extra fat.
6. Add the meat and rest of the ingredients to the pot with the liquid from the canned kidney beans and a bit of extra water if you need to.
7. Bring to a boil then simmer on a lower heat for at least 40 mins, making sure to stir every now and again.

So, that's my chilli recipe. The guac I make by just chopping up some red onion, avocado, a tomato, salt and pepper, a little bit of lemon or lime juice and a couple of tbsp of light cream cheese (or nonfat yoghurt), smushing it all up in the bowl.

Oh yeah, I tried to figure out the calories. If you divide it into 6 large portions it's 305 cals a serving. But I eat half of that.

YUMMY! Thank you for sharing your amazing recipe!!

This is probably going to be it for me today unless I have a protein drink later. Got some stomach flu situation happening...

Coffee, fairlife milk and genepro with sugar free toriani: brown sugar cinnamon flavor

Stir fry with chicken, veggies, garlic, ginger, peanut sauce

Feel better! Looks yummy though!

YUMMY! Thank you for sharing your amazing recipe!!

You're welcome! [emoji182][emoji8][emoji106]

Day 17

January 17th! So today's meals in photos also coincides with my 3 month surgiversary! My dr said I was ahead of where I should be, but I need to eat more. Since I track everything he wants me to try eating every 2-3 hours. He was happy I'm averaging around 30g of carbs a day.

So...for meals in photos, today, I had 1 oz of mixed nuts and an ounce of colby jack cheese for "lunch" at 4 am. Perks of the night shift? I just now ate dinner of homemade sloppy Joe's and rice. I started with 5.7 oz, and had 3.6 left in the bowl by time I was comfortably full. Eating is hard, being motivated to eat is hard, going 14 hours between meals and forgetting to eat is apparently easy lol.

17 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Jan. 17th:

food for the day!

I'm sure I'll update later lol

Matcha latte

Doubles (Trini food) -chickpea masala in puffed flat bread

Kind bar

Update:

Not featured: yogurt, chicken & chocolate chip cookies a friend made for me.

(More tea, hot chocolate, coffee & water)

The Cookies: they were not protein variety lol so *technically* I'm still on plan, but it's more about me not being a DB when visiting people who go out of their way with hospitality. I'll survive if I have a cookie, especially after walking 2 miles to see them.