So after months of X-rays, blood tests and Physical Therapy Consultations that aside from mildly high Cholesterol nothing is wrong with me, All of this despite the fact that I have abject pain from my hip to my foot primarily on my left side all day and all night, and that because of said pain I stopped being active and gained a bunch of weight. The doctors whom I presume have all completed some sort of medical training have given the advice of exercise and diet, which seems ironic since the whole reason I came to see them in the first place is that I started having this pain get progressively worse and it prevented me from my normal activities of going to the gym and hiking. The only Dr. I have seen that has made any sense is my Gastroenterologist after talking to me for more then five minutes she helped alleviate my fears of having gall bladder disease or some sort of parasite, It turned out my stomach problems were the result of food poisoning several months prior, which was caused a multitude of stomach and digestive problems, she also encouraged me to do low impact exercises such as yoga in hopes that it would lower my stress and possibly help my pain. I am telling you all this because I plan to start keeping a blog filled with my recipes and workout routines as both self accounting measure and hopefully helpful guide for others. Unlike other clean eating cross-fitting fitness nazis who tell you never to eat carbs or eat only organic and locally sourced I am not like that, this is me primarily sharing my journey and hoping that people will support me and I can help support them in their journey. I live on a budget and if I bought all grass fed organic etc I wouldn't buy enough to last a day let alone a week. I am also going to indulge once and awhile. Why because I had a trainer who for 2 years monitored my daily food and would tell me to do things like not eat carbs for two weeks or no red meat ever, and the first thing I did after we broke up (and believe me it was a break up which was odd) is I went to set and hit the crafty hard there was soda and candy and mexican food galore I was so sick afterwards but what I learned is deprivation doesn't work eventually you are going to break down and undo it all, so instead if you and your co workers order pizza every Friday night like mine do, go ahead and have pizza on Friday just make sure you've brought your own homemade carefully measured dinner every night prior to Friday.
So This week's semi made up recipe is:
PF Changes Orange Peel Chicken
1lb Boneless skinless chicken breast ( I buy the eat well Chicken breast from Fresh and Easy because its never frozen and extra trimmed so if you don't live near a fresh and easy try to find chicken with as little fat as possible)
1 Jar Orange peel simmer sauce ( again no Fresh and easy? find a comparable sauce at your local store or make your own there are some great recipes to be found on google or pintrest that I amy try next time).
3 servings of brown rice steamed (this varies depending on what rice you buy I have a rice cooker/steamer combo so I tend to make a bunch of rice at once and use it in multiple recipes) but buy whatever rice you like or is easy for you, minute rice make brown rice or if you forget the rice most stores have ready to heat and serve brown rice.
olive oil
Chop Chicken into quarter size cubes ( the size is dependent on you but make sure they are all about the same size so that they cook at the same pace and are done at the same time. Note this is a tip I got from Master chef )
Grab a large skillet or wok and place on stove. add a bit of olive oil (about a tablespoon) place in pan.
Turn on heat med high to high
heat oil in pan, when the oil is hot aka little wisps of smoke come off of it. Add your chicken pieces.
now quickly toss or stir your chicken in the pan/ wok you want the chicken to be lightly coated in the oil so it doesn't stick to the pan.
continue stirring and turn the chicken until is cooked through no pink chicken, pink chicken is bad.
Open then simmer sauce and add to the pan and stir lower heat to med low and allow it to simmer until sauce is heated through stirring occasionally.
if you had some steamed broccoli lying around you could toss it in now as well.
This recipe makes 3 servings or so and with rice is about 400 calories.
Next time I will be talking about my new favorite short hike in Culver City its a great starter or restarter hike that anyone can do. Seriously it was designed to be wheelchair accessible.
So until next time Take care-a business!
~C
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