Breakfast: Today, I had my "Load management" breakfast at Griddle This. Taylor ham with 3 egg whites on whole wheat toast and a red bull. Ya know, coming from going to Griddle This literally every day (proper use of the word literally), only going once a week or so is pretty crazy. Obviously I really like the food there, but I go there more because I just like going there. The people who work there have become friends. I'm the type of person who likes having a "regular" thing. So taking that away from myself is pretty tough. That being said, I am saving a ton of money by eating more at home. But going once a week or so is good for the mind. AND even when trying to eat healthy, it's certainly important to support small business - especially those that are owned and operated by people who have become friends!
Calories: Steak: 100, Chicken: 40
Fat: Steak: 9, Chicken :0.5
The chicken actually has a little more protein too.
Notice - I'm not talking about the sodium. That is significantly worse in the chicken, but each meal, you need to choose your battles. And I choose calorie and fat this time. THIS IS WHY WE CALL IT "JOE'S DIET OF CONVENIENCE!" I can make an argument for all of my choices, based on it's convenience to me. :-)
So Anyway, I fired up the Blackstone and threw on all 6 chicken steaks for Kristyn & I to split. Cut up and ton of peppers and onions and topped it with some Frank's Red Hot sauce with some toast. You are looking at 1/2 a sandwich and a bunch of extra veggies on the side. Extra loaded up on the veggies because my sister told me something really great the other day. She was saying that she makes lots of vegetables because when you just want to keep eating, you can keep eating vegetables with no guilt! (paraphrasing, but that's what I took from the conversation.) This came out really great! The trick for me was to not overcook the veggies so they were not mushy or gooey. Got 1 more box of these chicken steaks to cook up another day. Looking forward to it!
Dinner: Blackstone meal #2 - Burgers, zucchini & squash. These burgers were actually made about a month ago. I balled up some burgers from the ground beef I had bought, but it made 8 burgers. So I froze 4 of them for later. These had to be defrosted as balls and then cooked. I just threw the balls on the griddle and smashed them down. I wouldn't call them "Smashburgers" because they are generally thinner, but they were similar I guess, in some ways. The zucchini and squash came out just "ok" because I think I over-oiled them in an effort to make them not dry. Over did it.
Oh - again with the extra veggies - we cooked up a bunch of carrot sticks that Kristyn had pre-cut the other day. BUT I totally forgot about them until dinner was over. So I picked at them on the counter until they were all gone. Great call! I enjoyed the carrots as sticks. Came out great.
Snack: So a sort of standing tradition is to hang out with Boita and Zelizo for the MLB All-Star Game. Almost thought it wasn't happening this year, but it did when we got the last minute text. All of us were ready to rock, so once the kids were in bed, I hopped over there. This type of night can become problematic for me with chips and stuff, and Boita had a bag of Crunchy ridgey cheddar and sour cream chips. OMG they were good! I jumped on that and on the pretzels. BUT I put them on a plate instead of just eating out of the bag. I limited myself somewhat, and it was not too bad. I also had a little bit of the Lagavulin scotch that I brought. All in all, could have gone much worse for a late night hang.
Weight Loss Update: as of 7/12/23 at 8am, I was up 1.1 pounds from yesterday and down a total of 9.2 from the beginning. I'm not upset about the 1.1 gain, because yesterday, I went down 3.9 pounds and that is not realistic. So to come back, have 3 meals with bread and the chips at night and still be at a -2.8 from 48 hours ago - that's great to me!
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