Celebrating a 4 pound loss this week!

I finally made it through a whole week without any wheat products. I had been able to keep the sugars and starches out for a few weeks but I had a wrap at clinicals a week ago and I think it stunted my losses. I was also frustrated with the scale just sticking in one place day after day, so I stopped weighing in every day and decided to start using Saturday mornings as my official weigh in day. Well, then without warning a family illness kept me up at the hospital for 24 hours and I ended up coming home at 3:00 AM this morning and wolfing down a giant fresh beef burger smothered in cheese. So - when I weighed in I was sure the scale was going to yell, Get off me Fat Ass!" But much to my surprise it showed a 4.1 loss since my last weigh in earlier in the week. I was ecstatic!

Well, what is an ecstatic fat boy expected to do? Celebrate!!!! I like to celebrate with food. No! I did not cheat on my diet, but I decided to kick it up a notch and make a giant egg roll, John Style! Here's how I did it:

First, I baked of a pan of bacon in the oven so the strips would be nice and perfectly long. Then I harvested them onto some napkins to drain and snacked on a few while I contemplated my next move.





Then I diced up some onion, green pepper, and baby 'bellas and fried them up in a skillet until they started to caramelize a bit.




Next I whipped up 4 large eggs and poured them over the simmering veggies.




This next step is when I added the perfect strips of bacon.




Then I topped it all with a blend of shredded cheeses.




The final step was pretty hard to do and took two flippers to accomplish rolling up the giant 12" egg roll. It was a bit messy at first and since it took two hands I wasn't able to grab any pics. But the end result was phenomenal! I grilled each side for about a minute and then plated it.  I ended up with a giant egg roll stuffed with cheese,  bacon, and veggies - all topped with more shredded cheese and Fage Greek yogurt. Success! Next time I might add a few more strips of bacon and some olives...

Bacon Wrapped Scallops

Ok, so I cheated a bit on this recipe. I found a great low carb meal at Kroger in the frozen food section, scallops wrapped in pre-cooked bacon. But I did tweak it just a bit...

Here's all I had to do:

• Heat two tablespoons of oil in a skillet.
• Open the box and place the frozen scallops bacon-side down.
• Since the bacon was pre-cooked it took less than 8 minutes on medium for these to be finished.
• I turned them once during the cooking process to make sure that both sides were fully cooked.

Once they were done (165F in the center) I placed them on an appetizer platter. Then, I made a sauce using a trick my wife taught me called "de-glazing" to finish off the plate. De-glazing is where you make a sauce using the caramelized bits of meat and grease the end up on the bottom of the pan. This sauce was very easy and delicious! After removing the wraps, I added an 1/8 cup of heavy cream and brought it to a boil, scraping all the caramelized goodies off the bottom of the pan while stirring. You can see the results drizzled across the top of the dish pictured at the top of this post.

Low Carb Sandwich

Here are the ingredients that I used for my latest low carb sandwich made with leftovers:

• Three eggs
• Left over bacon slices
• One left over grilled burger patty
• Diced green pepper
• 1/2 tomato sliced
• Alouette Garlic Herb Cheese Spread
• Hot Sauce

I fried up the diced green peppers in some coconut oil then folded in the three whipped eggs.

I microwaved the burger patty after I cut it in half and spread the Alouette Garlic and Herb Creme de Brie on it. It started to melt nicely. Then I added the finished eggs and peppers that I had folded down to fit on the burger patty.

I placed the eggs and peppers on one side and topped it with microwaved bacon. I added the tomato slices to the other side. I sprinkled both sides with hot sauce and folded the two sides together and placed it in a basket. There’s something about that red checkered paper in a basket seems to make everything taste even better!

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