Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Product Review: Perdue Simply Smart Chicken

I was going to do a video but I realized that I didn't want to put the time and energy into it...



I don't usually blog about a product. But, I needed to shed some light on this topic.
The last couple of weeks, I have seriously been having the munchies for chicken nuggets. As we all know, the only way that I was going to get a healthy chicken ANYTHING was if I bought a whole chicken, beat it into nuggets, and bread it into some croutons.
So, one day I was looking through my coupon book and noticed a coupon for Perdue Simply Smart Chicken. It was worth a shot to try something new. Unfortunately, the Wal-Mart I went to does not carry it, (Wink, wink, nudge, maybe you should start carrying it...) but I remember seeing it at Harris Teeter and Food Lion.
After a couple of days of putting it off, I finally went to Food Lion to buy it. It is a frozen food item so the first thing that I am thinking is, "This is going to be F*ing horrible!" But naturally, I flip it over to read the nutrition facts and realize that it is not that bad at all. The only bad thing about it was that it cost like ten dollars, but it cost to eat healthy now... or to eat at all...
"This is going to be F*ing horrible!!"
Now, this is the part where I am going to compare it with something. The only other chicken product that we have in the house is the Tyson Chicken Nuggets. (I really didn't find out until after I wrote this that we only have the stupid Tyson Dinosaur Chicken Nuggets. WHO KNEW THAT WOULD SERIOUSLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!)

YEAH!! I MADE THIS!!! BOSS!!!

 Now, I'm going to explain this using my super duper comparison table I made with Paint. I highlighted the main problem I had with Tyson. There is 17 grams of fat in ONLY five chicken nuggets. Me personally, I never ate only five nuggets in my life!! I ate nuggets until I got sick!!
Before y'all jump my throat and inform me that the serving sizes are different, we will get to that later.
On the Perdue side, you see that there are less calories, less carbohydrates from breading, and hell they even threw some iron in there for ya!! And they still taste wonderful!!

Okay guys, I bet that y'all are seriously asking, "What does this have to do with me?" The reason why I am putting this up on my blog is cause if one of y'all ask me one more time what I eat, I'm going ape nuts...
This is me recommending a healthy alternative to buying a raw chicken and cooking it when you are stressed on time. This will also hopefully get you to understand the importance to checking the nutrition facts on ALL products that your about to purchase. The box may look cool on the front and then transform into the nightmare on elm street when you read the back...

Got it?


GOOD!!!

Now, the next thing that I want to do is show you what 84 and 90 grams look like. (If my sister lets me borrow her scale this afternoon.)

Correction: The Tyson Dinosaur Chicken Nuggets are a 92 gram serving (one gram off) with 18 grams of fat... Maybe it was because they were frozen but there was no F*ing way that I was getting five nuggets on there!! So I cut one in half...

The Perdue Simply Smart Chicken Strips are a 84 gram (one gram off) serving with 5 grams of fat...


Even the appearance is different... Which one would you eat?
Tyson Dinosaur Chicken Nugget

Perdue Simply Smart Chicken Strips



My name is Sherri and I approve Perdue Simply Smart Chicken Products...

Monday, February 27, 2012

The March 2012 Challenge

This is a challenge that I stumbled upon whole surfing myfitnesspal.com. You can try it and see what results you manage to achieve! GOOD LUCK!!


March 1: Do 50 jumping jacks
March 2: At least 30 minutes of cardio
March 3: 50 crunches
March 4: Jump rope for at least 15 minutes
March 5: 25 push-ups
March 6: 30 minutes walking
March 7: 20-30 minutes strength training. (Set your own intensity)
March 8: Do a full plank for at least 30 seconds or beginner's plank for 60 seconds (you can youtube or google "plank")
March 9: 5 sets of 10 squats
March 10: 50 Royal Burpees (you can youtube or google this. I promise it's a real thing! lol)
March 11: 20 minutes cycling on highest intensity you can manage
March 12: Eat the rainbow. (Eat healthy foods of all colors, not skittles!!)
March 13: No processed foods
March 14: Burn at least 500 calories
March 15: Take the stairs!
March 16: 20 second wall sit
March 17: Jog in place 15 minutes
March 18: 15 minutes upper body training
March 19: 15 minutes lower body training
March 20: 20 box jumps
March 21: 20 minutes of walking/running intervals. (Or powerwalking for those of us who can't run yet)
March 22: Do a video from bodyrock.tv
March 23: 40 sit ups, 20 squats, 10 push-ups
March 24: 30 minute walk
March 25: Play a sport for at least 45 minutes
March 26: 15 minutes of Jump Rope
March 27: 10 minutes of abs and 20 minutes cardio of your choice
March 28: Do 1 hour of strength training
March 29: Take a 60 minute cardio class
March 30: 45 minutes of zumba
March 31: Walk a hike/bike trail

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

My Diet

This is a video explaining the current diet that I am on.

Yay!! It didn't save!!

So, I was making this video of me dropping off a bag of old fat clothes to the DAV (or whatever three letters are suppose to be there). It was recording, right, and as I was going back to the car....THE PHONE FELL OFF THE DASHBOARD!!! Battery over there and phone pieces all over the place...FML!!! So since I was unable to capture my EPIC moment, I made a reenactment...

I realized a couple things about this video
  1. I am taller than I thought I was..
  2. My butt looks good!!
  3. Black is slimming...

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Cheating Thursday Returns

At least I know when I go back to school for video production, I will have the basic knowledge mastered.... AND I WAS NOT ON DRUGS!!

Monday, February 13, 2012

THE BIG 50!!!

I HIT FIFTY POUNDS!!!!
WWWWWWOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I'M SO F*ING HAPPY!!!!!


IT'S TEBOW TIME!!!

Well, I honestly started the day with a good ole' hysterical cry followed by the re-weighing myself five thousand times just till it sunk in. I seriously took the scale and moved it around the room until it sunk in.

I WEIGHED THE SAME ON THE EAST COAST!!
I WEIGHED THE SAME ON THE WEST COAST!!
I WEIGHED THE LESS ON THE NORTH AND SOUTH HEMISPHERE!!!
HELL, I WAS SO EXCITED I DECIDED TO PLANK ON THE SCALE!! GOTTA LOVE THAT DIRTY FLOOR!!



...And if I haven't said it enough, THANK YOU for your support during these last few months. I absolutely appreciate every second of it!!!