Chicken and Barley Stew *hurk*
Yeah, so, today seems to continue my run of bad luck when it comes to trying some new (to me) NS meals. Lunch was Chicken and Barley Stew. Hey, I thought it sounded good. I like chicken. I like stew. I even like barley! So, what could go wrong? Well, the stew was okay except for the over abundance of barley flavor. Maybe it wouldn’t have been so bad, but it was kind of a fake barley taste too. I assume it would be like feeding a horse “barley flavored hay.” Sure, it has a barley like flavor, but that doesn’t make it a chicken and barley stew!
Well, I decided to make a quick weigh in this morning. For having a few days of business trip and a weekend of gluttony, the results were not as devastating as I thought they would be (basically, I’ve ‘maintained’ the weight loss I’d started even though I’ve been bad). Today saw me at 281 pounds. That’s 19lb below where I started. Decent results, considering, yet a long, long way to go!
And then, there was Wednesday
Today was a little hectic, to say the least. I was packing my junk up at work, since I’ll be moving cubicles on Friday. Just as I was getting ready for lunch, my manager swings by and drags me off into a three-hour meeting. Yes, a three-hour meeting *hears the Giligan’s Island theme in the background*So, needless to say, I didn’t get lunch today.
Breakfast was the granola cereal, man that stuff is great.
Dinner was Chicken Pizzaiola. Pizzaiola. What a funny word. It mushes around in my mouth a lot like the NS chicken does. I don’t mind it as much when the chicken is cut up, but a whole chicken breast, which is the consistency of Spam, is just too much. The sauce it was in had a cheesy flavor to it, which wasn’t bad. But, again, the mushy chicken draws down the score to a C.
The Peanutbutter cookie for dessert was pretty decent. It wasn’t very sweet, but had a nice nutty taste - the type of nutty taste I understand is to be expected of peanutbutter. I nuked it for about 7 seconds, which made it a lot better.
*I’ve updated the blog 2 days in a row! Heck, even I’M impressed!*
I’m back, and hopefully to stay… this time
So, I’ve been gone for a while. Not something I planned on, but the wagon kept moving after I fell off. It’s kind of sad really. I would love to blame someone else, I really would, but I can’t. I was seeing results from the diet and exercise, I was happy and proud of dropping the weight quickly, and I sabotaged myself. I went along with friends and my girlfriend to go and eat out, to be bad. Maybe I could stretch things, and blame it on them… but that would just be selling myself short. I need to get back into the correct mindset and be determined that nothing will pry me from the goals that I have set for myself. So, maybe this boat load of new food will help. I went out to Nutrisystem and chose my own meals rather than settle for the same old package. I hope this will shake things up and get me back into the swing of things. Breakfast was the apple granola bar, man, I dig those things. I also had the typical whole wheat bread, a prepackaged cup of apple sauce (this one was peach and apple, unsweetened… mmmm, it was good) and a dairy item.
Lunch was the bread, cottage cheese (1%), salad and the Bacon Cheddar Mashers. Yes, the mashers are new to me. So, where to start with these things… I’m going to be very frank. First, they’re “baby shit” yellow. Second, they’re very pasty in consistency… much like the afore mentioned baby excretions. Well, they’re pasty with the exception of the bacon… which throws the consistency off completely. As far as taste goes, which is the most important I suppose, they’re “okay” at best. They’re rather bland. C – .
Din-din was the spicy Cajun rice with chicken and sausage. To tell you the truth, there wasn’t much flavor to it, but it did have a nice kick of heat! It gets an even B. After dinner, I selected the chocolate cherry cordials for desert. Hubba hubba! These things, which taste a lot like their normal chocolate desert pieces are every bit as good as I was hoping. Mmm, A!
