One of the things that is so hard about the Holidays is that so many traditions are centered around food. Those traditions can be very emotional for people to break ties with, yet trying to still participate in them can knock us off the wagon for a while.
We have worked hard over the last few years to create new Carnivore related food traditions, however, focusing on our favorite non-food related traditions can make things a lot easier. When I focus on the non-food related traditions it can make the holidays still feel really special without me feeling like I'm missing out on something.
What are your favorite Holiday traditions that have NOTHING to do with food?
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. 🎹🤍🖤
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Happy Friday!! How was your Day 1? We did some meal prep yesterday, I made a big batch of meatballs, we had some for lunch today with some chicken salad but most are going in the freezer for future meals. We also got 2 big Ribeye primals that were in sale and a pork loin I'll cut into steaks and chops today and freeze.
Have you been doing any meal prep this week, or grocery stock ups? What are you eating today?
Accountability
1. Pork belly
2. Gyro meat, egg white wraps, feta, olives
Spent morning by the lake fishing, caught 3 large mouth bass about 2 1/2 pounds each! Was a nice beautiful, felt like spring day, birds were singing, fish were jumping, ducks were playing! 30 minute walk after dinner! Sleep ok. Gyro meat for dinner was delicious and thank goodness worked out!
