P2 Chicken Apple Slaw

This was totally different from what I usually eat and I loved it!  It's almost a honey mustard flavor slaw, with the sweetness of apple and the protein included as well.  A great one-dish meal for the warmer weather.

Chicken Apple Slaw

1.5 cups Cabbage, shredded
3.5 oz Chicken, cooked and diced
1 Apple, diced
1 tsp Mustard
1 Tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
5 drops Liquid Stevia

Mix mustard, ACV and stevia in a container large enough to hold the other ingredients.  Add cabbage, apple and chicken and toss to coat.  Eat immediately or refrigerate for later.

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P2 Cinnamon Baked Apple

I enjoy a little "dessert" on Phase 2 and this hits the spot.

Cinnamon Baked Apple

Mix the following in a small baking dish:

1 Tbsp water
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Liquid Stevia to taste (5-10 drops)
Juice of 1/2 lemon (optional)

Core an apple - I use this handy tool.  Slice apple and coat in cinnamon mixture. Bake, covered, at 350* for 10-15 minutes or until desired doneness.

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P3 Apple Peanut Butter Sandwich

How cute is this?! I saw the idea on a friend's pinterest board and thought it would be fun to make P3 style.

Here is the apple corer I use. It's great to core an apple and bake it with butter and cinnamon, too.  That will be coming up in another post. :)




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Apple Day

Apple Day to the rescue! I had a busy long weekend (Fri-Sun) with family in town, and ended up taking an unplanned interruption from Phase 2. We were busy running around and I hadn't prepared meals for myself, so I was caught in restaurants having to do the best I could, and went off protocol. I also saw the new Harry Potter movie and made a conscious choice to eat some popcorn. The weekend left me up a few lbs, which I expected. OK it was 5 lbs. I know! Cheating is bad! Anyway, so I scheduled an Apple Day for Monday.

Apple Day sounds like it will be awful. Nothing to eat but six apples all day? It's not so bad, as long as you like apples. I just ate mine plain, though I suppose you could bake one with cinnamon for some variety. At the end of the day I was hungry, but not starving, and I knew I'd make it to morning, especially since I was expecting a nice loss on the scale.

I've done Apple Days a few times before, to get through a stall, and it worked - I'd lose a pound or so and be back on the losing track. I learned today, though, that it's also very effective to help with an interruption. I think it's something about the lbs that you JUST put on coming back off quickly when you get back on track. At any rate, my scale surprised me with a 4.3 lb loss today. That's almost all the weight I gained from the weekend. Hooray for Apple Day! Now I'm back on track for the second half of this Phase 2.

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