You are already 1/15th of the way through this challenge! 👏😂 See how awesome you are doing!!! 💪💪💪
We are headed into our first weekend, make sure you are planning ahead! What temptations will you face this weekend and how can you avoid them? Think ahead to Monday and how awesome you will feel having stayed strong for the weekend!!
Have an amazing Friday!
TIPS FOR USING LOCALS:
**Fyi since there are a lot of new people I figured I would share few tips about the platform.
**It is easiest to sign up on the browser/website because you don't have to deal with the Locals "coins"...but once you sign up you can download the app which makes daily interactions a bit easier.
**If you make a public post then anyone who has joined for free can see it. If you mark a post as "supporter only" then it will only been visible to people who are paying supporters. Just a heads up depending on how public/private you want it to be.
**I find it most helpful to filter by "RECENT" so everything stays in reverse chronological order. To change that look on the right side under "Sort By"
**The very first (and maybe second) time you make a post on the feed it has to be approved by an admin (me or Chris) so don't worry if you don't see your post right away...as soon as we see it we will approve it. After Locals knows you are an approved person then it goes public right away.
Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.
What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?
Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.
For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...
Happy Saturday! I hope you are all doing well. I know some people in the group have had some recent tough news for themselves or family members. It really puts the day to day issues we face into perspective, and reminds me to just focus on doing the best I can to be as healthy as possible. To those who are having a hard time, we are all here for you and sending you some prayers and support. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Just focus today on doing the best you can and remember that food isn't going to bring you the comfort you are looking for.
Here is a little video of Penelopes performance from her piano recital l last night, she's been taking lessons for about a year and a half. 🎹🤍🖤
*Livestream Monday night at 4pm pst/7pm est
I was listening to a podcast today on health and it cracked me up how many times the guest doctor suggested to lower their cholesterol to improve certain health conditions. Mind you, these were not even heart conditions, which I could understand given dogma. It was related to issues steming from hormones and blood pressure. It's wild how ingrained some ways of thinking are in mainstream medicine. I cringe when I hear it because many people will take a statin or cut red meat on this advice.
I'm sure many of you hear things like this from your own doctor too. Do you find yourself rolling your eyes when you hear it on a podcast, TV show, etc? Have you been able to let your own preconceived thoughts go or still fight with that?
Happy Monday! Thanks for those that joined the last minute Livestream last night, sorry about the confusion but we had a great time. One of the topics we talked about a lot was around Sleep. How is your sleep currently? I shared some tips last night that I implement for good sleep habits, things like keeping your room cold, no food 5+ hours before bed, caffeine cut off time, etc
What are your best tips for good sleep hygiene?
Hi guys! Hopefully you’ve had a fun Halloween! My last couple of days are a bit rough - on Halloween we’ve had a party at work, and I’ve drunk too much alcohol which resulted in a huge hangover, and eating a lot of carbs over the weekend. It’s Monday evening here, and I’ve fasted for 24h, came home and ate a dinner. Right after, I spotted some cookies in the cupboard, and ate a few of them 😒 I feel so bad about this, was planning getting back on track right away.
Also, my older sister is doing keto now, and she tries to convince me to eat veggies again, which I really don’t want to. We are both obsessed with how we look and what we eat, and she makes me feel really guilty of not eating veggies, not counting calories... It’s just so annoying- I never try to convince her my way of doing things is better than hers. She is so obsessed with counting macros, that she even was checking how many carbs there are in an olive when I told her I sometimes eat them if I feel like it, ...
