Crockpot Enchilada Chicken

Today was a really good day. I had a meeting with my Commanding Officer and he wants me to head up setting up a battalion gym. Since I get to create it, it will be based on the CrossFit model. I honestly believe that CrossFit is the program that is best suited for getting our Soldier, Sailors, Airmen and Marines in top fighting shape. I'm really looking forward to taking this on. I have been looking for an opportunity like this since I checked into this command and the timing couldn't be any better since I just got my level 2 certification. Now, I just need a space to call a gym and some equipment to fill it with. Ah, details.

3 days into the no-sugar/no-grains challenge and things are going fairly well. I have had food dreams the past two nights though. Wednesday night it was pizza and last night it was steamed white rice. In both dreams I realized as I was serving myself the food that I wasn't supposed to eat it. Fairly traumatic, but I'm surviving. Actually, it's not that hard. I think the biggest thing is that I'm a bit hungry throughout the day, but I think that's just a part of getting back into the Zone proportions. I had been pretty lax about how much I was eating lately and now I'm paying the price. Performance-wise I'm still doing well, I have not noticed any degradation in energy or performance in the gym. Tomorrow is a planned cheat day since we have out Tapas dinner party to go to and we were invited to a retirement party for someone from Guam. We are sure to be surrounded by red rice and probably some Lumpia and I'm sure that the marinade for the short ribs will have had plenty of sugar in it. Self-control, that's what it's all about. I'm not that good at self-control, but that's what it's all about.

Breakfast

1 cup cottage cheese

1 cup grapes

handful macadamia nut pieces

Snack

1 oz deli turkey

1 cheese stick

honeycrisp apple

handful mixed nuts

Lunch

Salad - lettuce, tomato, onion

1 can albacore tuna

Newman's Own Olive Oil Vinaigrette

Mixed nuts

Snack

2 over hard eggs

Naval Orange

small handful mixed nuts

1/2 hour before dinner - 1 tsp peanut butter

Dinner (see photo above and recipe below)

~4-5 oz chicken breast

1/2 avocado

1 cup roasted yellow squash

1/4 cup tomatoes

handful of cilantro

diced red onion

Small glass of Williamson Wines 2004 Cuvee

Amy's Newest Crockpot Creation

1 large can of Enchilada Sauce

3 large split chicken breasts

1 medium onion sliced

a bunch of garlic cloves

Yellow squash sliced into 1/2 inch pieces

Avocado

Red Onion finely chopped

Cilantro

Tomato chopped

Combine first 4 incredients in crockpot. Cook on low temperature for 8-9 hours or until chicken is fork tender. Once chicken is done, shred with fork.

Drizzle squash with olive oil and salt and pepper to taste. Spread on baking sheet and roast @ 375 degrees for 20 minutes.

In a bowl add roasted squash, top with shredded chicken and a healthy portion of the broth. Add remaining ingredients. Pour a nice glass of red and enjoy.

Didn't block this out, but it would be easy enough to do. The entree alone is rather low in carbs, but the glass of red helps boost the carb content of the meal a bit. Would have been good with a nice salad, but we were way too hungry for that kind of effort.