The scale absolutely shocked me this morning, bringing me into a new lower decade! I don’t typically lose 4+ pounds in a week — on the contrary, I’m lucky to lose 1. But I guess being sick does have some benefits, as long as I don’t end up gaining this back!
4 more pounds will bring me to my lowest weight in 6-10 years — a weight I only achieved after surviving on the Rice Diet for 4-5 months (absolutely no salt, grains + fruit for nearly every meal, very little protein except beans) or the Atkins Diet a couple of years earlier (no carbs, high fat and high protein). Gee, I wonder why my metabolism is so screwed up.
This time around, I’m much more balanced and healthy! (Thank you Weight Watchers)
After being sick last week, I am eating more normally but have not increased my activity yet. I’m still coughing and have some pain/bubbling in my chest when I lay down. Until that’s gone, I’m not going to be working out beyond climbing the stairs to work each day.
My total lost for this challenge: 1.8%
Total weight lost since Jan 5, 2011: 47 lbs
The new recipe I tried this week was Weight Watchers’ Dijon Pork. I mixed together a couple of tablespoons of dijon mustard, sugar, apple cider vinegar, and red pepper flakes (light for the kids) for a marinade. Since I was almost out of dijon, I added a little water to the bottle and shook out the last of the mustard, so it was a little thinner than normal. I smeared the pork chops with the mixture and let them sit in the fridge for an hour or so, then cooked them in my iron skillet. After searing on one side for about 4 mins, I turned them over and added just a little water to the pan so all that cooked-on goodness bubbled up and flavored the pork.
The monsters don’t like mustard or spice but they ate this no problem. I had one leftover pork chop that I diced up and added to some zucchini and tomatoes sauteed in a little olive oil (with more red pepper flakes!) yesterday for lunch. Yummo!