Lunch today for 11 adults and 5 kids. The kids all had a picnic outside with hot dogs and applesauce. Adults ate NY Strips, chicken thighs, and shrimp...I made green beans and baked potatoes as sides for others but no one ate any potatoes.
Spending the afternoon sitting in the shade of the maple tree visiting. I will make something small for my Grandparents and kids for supper tonight but my Mom, Chris, and I ate enough for lunch to just have one meal.
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 Saturday! I am very excited for the weekend. We are going to Fogo de Chao Brazilian steakhouse for lunch today. They have Veterans Day discounts (for Veterans and families) all weekend and through Tuesday so we always take advantage. Not much better than all you can eat meat when someone else is cooking!! The rest of the weekend we plan to play a lot of Monopoly and just take it slow.
What are your plans this weekend? Eating anything good?
Happy Saturday Night!
(NOTE: I'll be posting another post after this; about a great beef sale online for those who are interested.)
Brrr... bundle up friends, it's going down to a low of 17 degrees tonight and a high tomorrow of 34. 🥶💨🌬
It'll be a good day for a warm church service and then football, naps and cooking.
No new news on the new job. The owner of that business had some meetings and events on Friday, so I'll give him until mid-week to respond to my email. I don't mind being busy at work but I do mind having the newest person in the office tell me what I can and cannot do. I've been here for over 8 years and I do my work and eating at my desk does not affect that in any negative way. I'm ready to just do my work and not have to deal with the public in person.
Ok enough of that! Eating is eh, not great, not terrible. For all my big words of doing Mostly meat for 3 months, I haven't been that strict. Once again my old nemesis, stress-eating kicked in.
Today we fasted through the ...
Accountability
1. Iced coffee with 3 t cream
2. Pork belly
3. Crispy chicken thighs, butter bites
Notes: yummy food day but not eating enough still, ugh. Long walk around campground today. 40 minutes, longest ever without stopping! Beautiful trees with leaves turning fall colors and falling on ground, squirrels everywhere gathering the nuts falling. Such a beautiful place.
