FOR THE LOVE OF CHICKEN !!!

Ok so eating right? Check!
Working out regularly? Check!
Planning ahead? Check!
Eating chicken almost everyday?... Ugh Check!!

Although eating healthy has many many options i often find myself eating chicken and chicken and more chicken.
I am a fussy eater, I don't really eat alot of fish or anything with sauce, nothing spicy or sour... Ya it is hard to please this pallet... but low and behold a recipe for shrimp that i love and make often.

CAJUN SHRIMP

You will need
1 bag of thawed tiger shrimp uncooked in the shell
EVOO = Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Cajun spice
Sea Salt
Lemon Juice
Minced garlic (or garlic powder)
White cooking wine

STEP ONE
In a saucepan add
4 tbsp of EVOO
equal amounts of lemon juice
4 tbsp of minced garlic (1.5 tbsp with garlic powder)
1/2 a tsp of sea salt
1 tbsp of Cajun spice
1 pinch of salt
(for full 2.2 kg bag)

STEP TWO
Heat pan for 5 minutes then throw in shrimp

STEP THREE
Shrimp cooks fast, when each is completely pink and no longer greyish they are done
Just before they are completely cooked add all the step one ingredents again but instead of oil this time add white cooking wine. If you don't have wine use EVOO.
(I really like garlic so maybe you can just add garlic to your taste)

I usually make rice as seen in pic above and sear some red and green bell peppers.

CAUTION
Remember you left the shell on them so you will have to take it off before eating. Removing the shell before cooking is optional. I like to leave it on and roll up my sleeves and eat with my fingers...plus leaving the shell on means you won't be able to shovel it in as fast cause it takes time to eat...

It is a favorite dish in our house. Absolutely delicious. You can make it for one or for 10 and the best part is the minute rice takes longer to cook than the shrimp...

ENJOY FRIENDS!!!

Today's Goal

As i sit thinking of how far i have come, i can't help but wonder what it would feel like to have it ALL back on. Over 70 lbs. I don't think that i could carry 70 lbs in a nap sack all day. I can't remember what it feels like. I can remember being there mentally, hating the way i looked and determined to change it...but the memory of the physical feeling has left me.
There are some things i look back on now, things that i no longer do and understand my actions better. I remember EXCESSIVELY shopping for clothes, it was an outfit or two a week and for some reason that urge to shop is gone. As the weight came off I didn't need materials to make me feel better or pretty, i just felt it.
When they say losing weight is a lifestyle change they couldn't be more right. You anticipate the physical changes but not the mental ones. I sometimes sit back and think to myself, would this person approach the "other" me, the me that i was 2 years ago, and strike up the same conversation? Would these people invite me to this or that if i didn't look the way i look now. Even sometimes there has been people who i have spoken to MANY times that have only now showed an interest befriending me.
Did you ever see those studies where a person does a survey when they are who they actually are and get great feedback from the everyday person on the street, then they put a big hairy mole on their cheek and the feedback is terrible. I sometimes have that kind of feeling. I guess in my mind i am still the insecure old me i have always been.
But sometimes i have to sit back and ask myself would i actually approach the big hairy mole lady as easily as an everyday regular somebody? I hope i would......
On that note... today's goal... find a "mole lady" and say hey!!!