Hcg Diet Phase 2 - Day 23

It's been a few days since I've been able to blog. You didn't miss much though. I ate pretty much the same old and didn't really lose any weight the past two days. I've lost about 1/2 a pound since Saturday. Hopefully I do another big drop this week. I'm really hoping because I really want to keep going with this plan. If I don't by Friday, I'm going to start Phase 3 on Saturday. I figure that if I'm losing so slowly here at the end anyways, I might as well end Phase 2 a little sooner so that I can start up again sooner. You lose most of the weight in the beginning anyhow, right? Besides, I've lost about 20 pounds in less than a month, and that's pretty darn great if you ask me!

This morning I had green tea and an apple for breakfast. For lunch I used one of my pre-made frozen taco meat packs and made a taco salad. Always delicious!

For dinner, I made chicken burgers and onion rings. Yep, that's right. Burgers and onion rings! Granted the onion rings were more like baked onions with some seasoning(because they were), but despite the fact that they weren't at all crispy like a normal onion ring, they were delicious. I got the recipe from Simplyhcg.com. I used seasoning salt instead of the Cayenne, salt and pepper.

"Onion Rings"

-½ sliced onion rings
- 1 finely crushed melba toast
- 1 Tbsp of skim milk
-1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
salt & pepper

• Preheat oven to 450’. In small bowl add milk, cayenne pepper, salt, pepper to make batter. In a small separate bowl place crushed melba toast. Place rings in batter bowl and toss to coat fully. Let sit in batter for couple minutes. Dip each ring into the melba toast powder. Place on cookie sheet lined with foil. Cook for 7 minutes, then flip and cook 7 more minutes. 

My burger was absolutely delicious as well. I really felt like I was eating a burger from A&W. The seasoning salt, mustard and onions really made the burger. I loved this so much, I feel like making it for breakfast tomorrow. Hehe:)

Chicken Burgers(makes 4)
 
400g ground chicken
1/4 - 1/2 tsp no calorie soy sauce
seasoning salt

Mix the chicken and soy sauce together. Shape into 4 patties and sprinkle both sides with seasoning salt. Fry in a pan with a little bit of coconut oil, on med-high heat for about 5-7 minutes on both sides, or until done.

I used a leaf of iceberg lettuce torn in half in place of the bun for each burger. I topped my burger with some of my onion rings and some mustard. YUM!