Day One

Today is the first day of my Last Diet EVER. A little delayed, I planned to start on Jan 1, but I got sick and didn't make it to the grocery store until yesterday.

Now the house is stocked with healthy foods, and I'm excited and ready to go!

Here's the planned menu for today:

(Today is a med. high point day, and I need to eat 33 pts. For more info on my diet plan, see the My Eating Plan tab at the top of the page)

Throughout the day, I'll be sipping from my 64oz bottle of water!

B:
3/4 cup Apple Cinnamon Cheerios with 1/2 cup skim milk - 3 pts
1 medium banana - 1 pt

L:
1 cup fresh spinach (0 pts) with 1/4 cup feta (2 pts) and sliced cucumbers (0 pts) - 2 pts
carrots - 0 pt
2 1/2 cups skim milk - 5 pts

S: apple - 1 pt

D:
Shredded BBQ Chicken (recipe below) - 1/6 of recipe - 8 pts
served over 2 medium baked potatoes - 3 pts
with 1/4 cup shredded cheddar- 3 pts
1/2 cup canned peas- 1 pt

27pts - still have 6 pts remaining for snacking.

My rule about snacking is that I only use points for snacks after I've eaten all of my fruit/vegetable servings (f/v) for the day, and only before 8:30 pm.

Not sure what my snack for the day will be tonight, right now I'm in more of a salty mood, rather than sweets, so maybe some Light Lays chips. I'll update later with what I ate and it's point value.

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Shredded BBQ Chicken - Total Points: 47, divided for two meals, 23.5 pts each. 1/3 of the recipe is 8 pts.
(I'm dividing this recipe in half, and using it for two meals. Served over baked potatoes tonight, and as a BBQ Chicken pizza later this week!)

• 6 boneless skinless chicken breast halves- 29 pts
  
• 18 oz bottle of bbq sauce (I used Aldis Kansas City BBQ) - 17 pts
• 1/2 cup Fat Free Italian dressing- 1 pt
• 1/4 cup Brown Sugar Twin (like Splenda, no calories or fat)- 0 pts
• 1 tbsp Lite Soy Sauce- 0 pts

Put it all in a crock pot and cook on high until done (3 or 4 hours).