Day 18

I have finished cycle 1.  Today I enjoyed a potato and oatmeal!  Funny how little things can be exciting.

First lets go through the cycle 1 results

Weight
Starting 4-1 : 178.3
After C1 4-18: 172.8
Loss: 5.5 lbs

Measurement changes:
Lost 1 inch waist
Lost 1.5 inches hips/stomach

Pretty satisfied with those results.  I think that they even would have been better if I wouldn't have slipped 1-2 days. 

Second on the agenda tonight is a recipe.  I REALLY need to go to the grocery store but don't have time till the weekend so I was rummaging in the freezer for something to cook.  I got the ingenious idea to put on an index card all that was in the freezer (ie x# chicken breasts, x# bags of broccoli) so I didn't have to look through it every time I wanted to know what was in it, as well as it would be a tool when planning dinners.  I took a few minutes and did that and ended up I had a whole chicken in there.  Now on the 17 day diet you can have chicken breast.......but skinned.  I wasn't sure how moist a chicken would stay with taking of the skin.  The fat in the skin is key to holding in the moisture but I thought what do I have to lose.  So I de-thawed it and then tried to figure out how I was going to cook it when I got home from work at 5pm.  I looked up a few recipes.....all saying 1-2 hours min, yeah not going to happen.  I pulled out my deep covered baker from Pampered Chef and I thought why not give it ago. 

I took my kitchen shears and cut off a majority of the skin and fat.  I left the skin on the wings, it was going to be impossible to get it off.  I rubbed the chicken down with some olive oil and spices and put it in the baker.

 

There it is all ready to go.  I pulled out this cheat sheet cook book my Pampered Chef demo had given me for my baker and there was instructions on how to do a chicken in the microwave......SCORE!

 30 mins cooking on high with 10 mins resting afterwards.  I threw the cover on and let it go.

 

Chicken perfectly done.  Now the legs were a little hard but we don't like them anyway and would have probably been fine if I would have tied them back.  The chicken breast was moist and delicious!

If you are in a pinch and have a chicken thawed its the way to go!