LC Day 50

I'm feeling 85% better from my over-weekend cold. Man...was that annoying. We finally had some gorgeous weather on a weekend and I was stuck in bed.

My scale is back down at 275.8 this morning...but right now I can only attribute that to the fact that I have zero water retention after laying in bed all weekend. My gams look GREAT though...so I wore a dress to work today.

Being sick really makes you struggle with comfort food cravings. I tell ya...friday night as I was driving home from work sick as a dog, I was plotting a horrific binge in my head...I had it all figured out. If I would have stopped at the grocery store, it woulda been all over for me. But instead...I drove home. I'm not gonna lie and say I made it through with flying colors...I did end up eating something off plan, but it's not NEAR as bad as what I could have done. I ended up eating 2 hard taco shells. Coulda been worse. I believe I ate approximately 50g of carbs in those two shells. That's as bad as it got though, through the whole weekend. I didn't run out and buy the donuts I actually wanted.

Last night I made a recipe I found on another low carb message board for "crack slaw"....I mean, it was all right...but I wouldn't call it addictive by any means. I have the leftovers from that here with me for lunch today. Breakfast was celery and cream cheese. I have bacon with me for mid-day snacks. Dinner tonight...well last night I was at the grocery store picking up cabbage and green onions for my crack slaw and spotted tonight’s dinner in the meat case. It's a chicken breast with 3 asparagus spears and cheddar cheese stuffed inside. I guess I just have to bake it for 30 minutes. Can't get more Atkins friendly than that...so that's tonight’s dinner.

Recipe I used Crack Slaw:
2 portions lean ground beef (about 1/2 lb)
1 TBSP toasted sesame oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 green onions, sliced
1 C broccoli slaw
1 C napa cabbage, shredded
1 TBSP lite soy sauce
Crushed red pepper flakes, to taste

1. Brown the ground beef over medium heat until no longer pink. Remove the beef from the skillet, drain and set aside.

3. Heat sesame oil in the skillet over med-high heat. Add garlic and green onions; stir-fry for 2 min. Add the broccoli slaw and cabbage; stir-fry for 2 min. Add rice and soy sauce, stir-fry for 2 min.

4. Return the cooked ground beef to skillet with vegetable mixture and season with red pepper flakes, to taste. Stir until ingredients are well combined and heated through, about 2 minutes.

5. Divide into two portions.

Next time I might try this one though:

About 2 tablespoons sesame oil
Brown 1/2 onion until soft
add a few cloves of garlic
soy sauce (I used tamari)
about 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
2 packets splenda
crushed red pepper flakes
sesame seeds

toss in 1 package of angel hair slaw mix until it cooks down a little and is coated, then add the ground beef back in until all heated through.