Slip up?

Friday night, neither me or my "better" half could be bothered to cook, or do washing up for that matter. So we decided to get take away. I tried to be healthy, but as one knows, there is no such thing as a healthy indian takeaway! I ended up having Chicken Balti and Pilau rice, and even then I only ate half of it. I think it was about 22 calories for the meal, plus another 6 for a Bhaji picked up in Sainsburys. It was still higher in fat than I should of been allowed but considering before when I would have indian I would eat all the rice, and the chicken, and have a bhaji AND Naan bread with it at least, I didn't do too bad. I had to take 3 points off my allowances yesterday but I managed fine :)

So I'm back on the cross trainer later, want to do a half hour if I can. Going to make a playlist of some metal tunes to keep me going. I had made a playlist dubbed "Metal Workout" on my Windows Media Player so will be going for some of that I think!

Weightloss Keep Cool Tip: Jubbly Lollies. They are the ones you buy in a box and freeze yourself. They are only about 20 calories a lolly and low in sugar so won't damage your teeth! They come in 4 different flavours, Tropical, Orange, Strawberry and Blackcurrent. Apparently they also do smoothie ones but they are high in sugar and more calories. Tesco have them 2 for £2 at the moment so go! Buy some and keep cool in this weather!!


Also thought I would share my first recipie to the world :) I found this on the net and tried it out, and by god its lovely!!

What you need is:

• 4 Blocks Medium Egg Noodles, (65g each )
  
• 2 Chicken Breasts, Skinless (approx 150g each)
• 1 Jar/195g Stir Fry Sauce (we use Sharwoods Hoi Sin and Spring Onion)
  
• 4 Button Mushrooms
• 1 Medium Courgette
• ½ Yellow Pepper
• ½ Red Pepper
  
• 1 tbsp Olive Oil
• 4 Spring Onions
• 1 Red Chilli or 1 tsp EPC Very Lazy Chilli (optional)

If you don't like Courgette then experiment! Have Tomatoes instead or have Mini Cobs etc etc.

Oh and don't forget, you will need skewers!!

Method

1. Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil, add the noodles, return to the boil and simmer for 4 minutes (or per pack instructions).
2. Cut the chicken breasts into 1" chunks and place them into a bowl. Add ¾ jar of Yellow Bean Sauce and stir chicken to coat. Set aside.
3. Preheat grill.
4. Meanwhile, quarter the mushrooms; slice the courgette into ¼"/½cm pieces; deseed and slice the pepper into 1" squares.
5. Take each of the wooden skewers and make up the kebabs, starting each with a quarter of mushroom and then alternating chicken, courgette and pepper (as you wish), and ending each with another quarter of mushroom.
6. Place the kebabs onto the grillpan and cook for 10-15 minutes, turning frequently, until chicken is cooked.
7. Once kebabs are cooked, heat the oil to smoking point in a wok, carefully add the spring onions and chilli and stirfry for 1 minute. Add the noodles and remaining sauce and stir to coat. Heat through.
8. Serve kebabs on bed of noodles and eat immediately!

I'm sure there are various alternatives for the things in this recipie, swap the chicken for Prawns or fish, not sure whats available world wide but there have to be some varients of everything world over!

Here's the science bit...

Nutrition Information Per Serving (Serves 4)

| 391 calories | 6.2g fat

| 26.2g protein | 57.9g carb

| 3.2g fibre | 1.4 fruit/veg

So all in all, pretty darn good for you :)

Shall now go, make my new playlist and do some exercise!