I know. I have been gone for a long time. I have even
debated about just shutting down this blog and giving up.
BUT….
I just could not do it. I guess I had faith that I would be
back and that Silent Sam (SS) would be back and we would start all over again. This
must be the 1000th time starting again. Sorry, it has been a very different
year for us.
As I probably told you, we moved. Not in the same town but
to a new state and a new job (for SS) and a new house. Soon after we moved, I
got a new knee! That was a whole lot of new. While we love our changes, they
have not always been easy. I had a business that did not transfer with me and
while recovering from surgery, I closed the business I ran for 20 years. It
took a few months but is now gone – apart from the IRS who seems to have lost a
payment I made… SS and I had started a new company before he stared his new job
so I have that company still to run. (Just in case you thought I was sitting
here not doing anything.) It is still
just in the infancy stages (that translates to not making any money) so I seem
to find plenty to do.
We are starting to change. SS and I set our goals for the
year to find doctors and dentists. No, we had not done anything about that
since we moved. I know. But probably like many of you, we didn’t really want to
go to the doctor. SS took the first step and made a dental appointment. In a
rare show of competitiveness, as soon as he told me he had done that, I called
and made an appointment. Then I called a doctor’s office that my daughter in
law suggested. I could not get in very soon to see the doctor that she
recommended but I could get into one of the other partners fairly quickly.
SS and I had a conversation the weekend before my doctor’s
appointment and we agreed it was time for a change. We both needed to go back
to watching our foot intake and getting more exercise. While my knee is not
painful anymore, I had not been exercising the way I should have been. SS had
been walking the dog but that did not seem to be enough.
Sometimes, the time is just right. You have reached the
point where you are ready to admit that you need to make a change and
especially when both of you are doing working together, it is better. So when I
went to the doctor and she told me that I needed to lose weight, I was ready. I
was not ready for one part of her suggestion though.
The doctor told me to stop eating
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Potatoes |
Well, that is hard. Mostly because when we changed our cooking
habits when SS was diagnosed, we seem to have lots of recipes with pasta in
them. We had also taken up using the bread maker weekly to go with our Sunday
night soups. All that was out the window.
The doctor told me I would be surprised by how much weight I
would lose making that change. I decided that while she might be right, it was also
time to go back to Weight Watchers since that had worked for me before. In case
you have not been on Weight Watchers lately, it has changed and now you are
given a weekly activity goal that you need to reach. Not a bad addition to the
program but it is enough to keep you pushing to make the activity goal.
On Wednesday, it will be three weeks on the new program. It
is going fine. I seem to have more problems with the exercise bicycle than I
should but I think that is a brain problem more than anything else. I have also
been in search of new recipes. I have had some duds so far. (I really hate it
when I make a dinner that just doesn’t work!)
Okay, I have one exceedingly easy one for you that tastes
great. I was surprised.
Chicken with Peach Salsa
1 lb. of boneless skinless chicken breasts
½ - ¾ jar of peach salsa
Spray the bottom of a cooking dish with Pam or a Pam type
product. (there is an olive oil Pam spray now or Trader Joe’s has one) Put
chicken breasts in the pan. Cover them with the salsa. Bake at 375 degrees.
Okay now, the baking part will need some judgement on your
part. If you are using those big frozen chicken breasts, they will take longer
to bake. Check with your meat thermometer to make sure they are fully cooked. I
used large breasts the first time and it took about an hour and a half to bake
them fully. The second time, I used those 4 oz. breasts from Schwans and they
took about an hour. And yes, I took them right from the freezer and put them in
the oven.
Also, the second time I made this, I put a lot of salsa in
the pan. You don’t need a whole jar. Too much doesn’t hurt the recipe but it
just means that you will throw it away. We don’t have rice or pasta under the
chicken to mix with the excess salsa so it is just a waste.
I also think you can use other types of salsa with this. I
like the touch of sweetness from the peaches but there are so many choices out
there – have fun with it.
(for 2 servings - Calories (kcal) 286.2, Fat (g) 3 .5, Saturated Fat (g) 1.0, Trans Fat (g) 0, Cholesterol
(mg) 140.7, Sodium (mg) 633.2, Potassium
(mg) 917.8, Carbohydrate (g) 5.3, Fiber (g),1.4, Sugar (g) 2.6, Protein (g) 55.6
per eatracker.ca )
Thanks for reading!
Much obliged to you for giving such essential data, and a debt of gratitude is for sharing this issue.
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