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Got back on track - have lost a few more!

Hope everyone is doing great!!

[Sheba's Mom]

Well it's day 12 of P1 and I'm still doing good. Forgot to eat my black beans for two days and started feeling crappy. Litteraly. Had a large portion of them last night and everything is moving through like it should again this morning. Amazing how lousy you can feel when things aren't moving right.

So far I'm down 11.5 pounds and hope to make it 12 by Monday. Would be a record for me on P1. Usually I only loose about 7 pounds so I must have been holding a lot of water.

Today's menu:

B - Same old thing-Ham, turkey, cream cheese, cucumbers, tomatoes

S - Bean salad and milk

L - Spagheti sauce, broccoli and cottage cheese

S - Laughing cow swiss with celery

D - Chicken foil pounches, BLACK BEANS, and spinach

S - Jello for hubby and SF peanut butter for me with dollop of cool whip

I know our menu really repeats itself a lot but it is all food we really like and it is what keeps us on track for the two weeks.

Hope all you phase oners are doing well. Just think we are almost done!! I can already taste that whole wheat bagel for breakfast on Monday.

Hope you all have a great OP weekend.

[Arheba]

Good on ya Sheba's mum. I am on day 12, too, but only lost 6, so far, but not complaining. The chicken foil pouches keep popping up and I have tried to find the recipe but must be overlooking it. Could you give it to me?
Maybe, I am not eating enough beans. Don't know if we have black beans, here. Did put some white beans in a stir fry last night. I did roast the chick peas last week and loved them, but was afraid I might over eat them if I kept making them. But, me thinks, it's on for, today. Again, congrats. Check back in with you on weight in day.

[Sheba's Mom]

Hi Arheba sorry about the chicken pouches thing. It is a recipe in the P1 section of the original SBD book. The first one that is the blue color. It is called Chicken en Papillote and is on page 150 of the book. I call it chicken pouches because I can't ever remember the en Papillote. I modified it for our tastes as we discovered we don't really like tarragon or orange zest, so I just leave that out. I alway double the amount of the chicken and triple the amount of the zucchini. If you don't have the book I will put the recipe into the recipe section.

It calls for one medium carrot and I go ahead and add that even though being in P1 it says we aren't suppose to have carrots. It hasn't ever given me any set backs or caused cravings.

It makes the chicken really super moist and gives it lots of flavor with the veggies. It freezes really well is why I always double it. I usually make it on Friday night because our weekends are usually insane. So I can just grab the leftovers, through them in the microwave and heat up a couple of cans of veggies and have lunch or dinner (or both some weekends) in a matter of minutes.

Hope you have a great weekend!