Weigh in time for me
January 1 weight 229
Today's weight 229
Looks like no change eh?
oops, sorry 'bout laughing n yer face
But fact is, I decided to ignore the healthy tasty food I had stocked up on here and went into "cook my own stuff" mode. My own stuff is more in line with spicy Mexican foods. I am not Mexican, but would not mind a bit if I were. Sure would love to be able to have a natural tan without even working for it.
Actually, I have never had a tan, my bodies idea of a tan is just different shades of red
Anyway, I was wanting some chili, or that is chili con carne. Which is a gringo dish but made very spicy like. And I am not talking about some of that "chili" which has ketchup and kidney beans and stuff like that in it. Nope.
I got two lbs of carne picado (beef steak cut into very small pieces, about 1/4 the size of stew meat or less), and two lbs of adoboda (pork cut into very small thin pieces and marinated in different chili's) and two lbs of boneless chicken thigh/leg meat and cut that up the same. I browned them a little at a time, put them in a large skillet, added a healthy amount of cumin, coriander and some oregano, some water and brought that to a simmer. And I diced up a very large onion, put that in a skillet with a little oil and some chopped up fresh garlic, cooked it until slightly browned and added that to the pot of meats.
I took some (a little over a 1/4 cup each of chili New Mexico and chili Anaheim and some chili pasillo and
chili de arbol, placed those in a skillet, turned the heat up high, opened the doors and windows and proceeded to heat the chili up to where it was smoking, stirring it to make sure it all got cooked. Really adds to the flavor
--- and drives the bugs and mice outta da house............
These were added to the skillet of carne (meat), water added, cooked for almost two hours, added the juice of two Mexican limes to that. MMMMMMMM Hated to, but I then added a gallon of pinto beans to make it chili beans, lowering the calorie content per cup. That was my only concession to diet. Then I added about 1/4 cup of cornmeal as a thickener and cooked another 30 minutes. Had a two bowls of this chili for my breakfast, which was about 1PM. My two girls had a bowl each and were begging for more. Dang hogs think they are dogs.
Later I had another bowl and a half for dinner. Than another bowl later with a salad for supper.
And the next morning I had a bowl for breakfast. My scales loved it also, they rewarded me with another 4 lbs
I finally got around to finding out how many calories were in each cup. I added up the calories of each ingredient then totaled that. Took the gallon and a half of chili it made and divided that up into cups worth..... a staggering 487 calories per cup
But in my own defense........... I gotta tell ya....... It tasted GREAT
From my beginning weight in Jan of 229, I went up to 237........... and back down to
229
Right back to where I started, and I gotta tell ya I have no regrets
That was my cheat half a week
I really hated to, but I packaged that chili up and placed it in the freezer and went back to weight loss mode.
All yall looking real good, love this group, you are very inspirational.
Sorry, but I felt like having a bit of fun with this post.
Love ya all
B F R
PS I still have nearly a gallon of that chili left, and I ain't throwing it out either
Love chili when weather is cold. Mentioning cold, hope all of you are doing OK in that artic vortex. I kinda feel bad about the fairly warm weather we are having here, around 72 degrees mid-day, does not seem fair.
Good for you! I'm so glad it works well for you! I'm a big advocate, needless to say, lol!
That means you're losing even if the scale isn't showing it right away!
I hope you do well on your job interview! 
Way to go on the lb down! 
I hope you feel better soon! 
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Your chili sounds amazing! 
And I'm glad you made your way back down to your start weight! 
