Day Two Hundred and Thirty-Three - You Have to Try This Buffalo Chicken Dip

If you haven't tried this recipe for buffalo chicken dip (we substitute buttermilk ranch dressing and mozzarella in for bleu cheese), put it on your menu for tomorrow.  Actually, if you haven't eaten yet tonight, go grab the ingredients and make it right now.  It really is that good!  Typically we eat it on tortilla chips, but I am slowly realizing that you can eat it on just about anything.  The other day I had it with baby carrots, and for the past few days I've been eating it on salad for lunch.  I love it!  The flavor with the spinach and croutons mixes perfectly.  The only downside is that it's a lot more calories than the turkey or ham I typically put on my salad.

Making healthy, but tasty food choices really isn't that hard.  People ask me if I miss eating certain foods, but in all honesty, I don't.  The reason is that there aren't many foods that I can't eat.  I still occasionally have pizza and other foods I used to eat.  I have just adjusted the amounts and the frequency I eat them.  The only things I rarely have anymore are fried foods and sodas.  The fried foods were an addiction for me, so I realized when I started this journey that they were something I needed to avoid almost completely.  That meant no more chicken strips (Zaxby's, Chick-fil-A, etc.), and even worse it meant no more fries (goodbye McDonalds and David's Burgers).  The no sodas may be the easiest part of this change.  After my kidney stone last August, I knew that I didn't want to ever go through that again.  So avoiding sodas was a pretty simple decision.  Now I find myself eating less as well as making better choices (like delicious buffalo chicken dip salads)!  I'm enjoying these changes, and I'm losing my butter half.

My calorie intake today was perfect.  I had that awesome salad for lunch and Bekah made a delicious barbecue dinner.  I got a full workout in this morning with crunches and planks.  Now it's time for the weekend!