New Year's Resolution Leads to Two Days of Chicken!

Okay so whose New Year’s Resolution isn’t to eat healthy and loose a little weight? So I think that has been my New Year’s Resolution for about as long as I can remember. I joined L.A. Weight Loss about two years ago. I have done really well and then something happens and I fall of the band wagon and it is so hard to get back on. I am determined this time to loose the weight for good. Also at Bryon’s work they are doing a Biggest Looser contest. If you sign up, you contribute $15 to the pot. At the end of the month, the person that has lost the most weight gets $100. At the end of the school year, they are going to do the overall winner and that person will win close to $1,000. So there is nothing like a little money to get me motivated. So I swallowed my pride and went into L.A. Weight Loss Monday. The lady that worked with me is so nice and is one of my favorites there. L.A. Weight Loss does a “take-off” that is a big shock to your system and shocks your system into loosing weight. Because I am insulin resistant, I cannot do the “take-off” because I can’t drink their drink because of the prescription I am on. So this lady tells me that I can do a mini take-off. So for the next two days whenever the diet says to eat a protein, the only protein I can eat is chicken. Have I mentioned that I am not a big fan of chicken??? I would rather eat a steak or prime rib any day of the week! Then she said for the next two days when it says fruit the only fruit I should eat is oranges and the only vegetable I should eat for the next two days is broccoli. So remember I am determined and figure I can do anything for two days. So I go to this guy in Sugar City that sells fresh fruit and vegetables at a cheap price. I bought me some oranges. Then I went to Albertson’s and bought fresh broccoli and a rotisserie chicken. When I get home, I have four ounces of chicken and cut up two cups of broccoli and steam it. Not bad! Well when dinner time rolls around, I heat up four more ounces of chicken and steam two more coups of broccoli. Let’s just say that the chicken did not taste as well heated up. Meanwhile, my family is having a wonderful dinner of homemade fettuccini and homemade breadsticks. I have to keep reminding myself their dinner is called a “heart attack in every bite” for a reason. Still I couldn’t keep from drooling over their dinner. So I already mentioned that today was a snow day. At lunch time, Bryon suggests going to Subway and getting us Subway sandwiches. I was so tempted. Don’t get me wrong , I can have Subway but for the next two days I am to stick to chicken. So I tell Bryon that actually going to Wendy’s would be better for me. He had a hard time figuring out how Wendy’s is better for you that Subway. I explain to him that I can have Wendy’s chicken sandwich which would stick to my two days of chicken thing. I have to say my chicken sandwich was a nice switch over two meals of rotisserie chicken yesterday. So all day long I am dreading dinner. Bryon calls me on his way home from work and I tell him to stop by the grocery store and get me a rotisserie chicken because I couldn't be creative and figure out anything else to do with chicken. YUCK! The thought of it was already making me gag! I made the family chicken fried steak, corn, and yams for dinner. I meal I would much rather eat than my rotisserie chicken. Have I mentioned that I am not a big fan of chicken so this two days of chicken is about killing me. So Bryon stops at the store and brings home chicken for me for dinner. I get the family their dinner and we sit down to eat at the same time. The only thing I am partially excited about is I get to have a whole cup of yams with my steamed broccoli and rotisserie chicken. Sam was the first one to see me measure out my rotisserie chicken. He asks if he can have the leg. I tell him that I am short a protein and so instead of four ounces of chicken tonight I have to have eight. If there is any left over he is welcome to it. I had a hard time gagging down four ounces yesterday, I am not quite sure how I am going to get through eight ounces of chicken. Now eight ounces of steak or prime rib would not be a problem at all! There ends up to be quite a bit of chicken left-over. Sam eats his fried steak and then Conner starts in on how we wants to eat chicken instead of his fried steak. What is wrong with this picture? Here I am gagging over the chicken and my kids are thinking it is the best meal they have had in a long time. Then Logan starts eating the chicken and totally enjoying it. The whole time I am sitting at the kitchen table, I am chocking down eight ounces of chicken and two cups of steamed broccoli and for some reason even the yam didn’t taste quite as good as it usually does without a half a stick of butter on it! Then there sat my kids saying how delicious it was and how we need to have chicken more often. YUCK! It took all my strength from not throwing up right there on the kitchen table. So tonight was my last meal of two days of chicken. I am so excited to in to L.A. Weight Loss tomorrow. I swear I am going to scream if these two days of chicken and broccoli have been in vain. Also I am probably going to rebel a little bit and while not going off the diet, I am not going to eat one ounce of chicken tomorrow! Well I better go get my 30 minutes on the exercise machine done.