I had dinner with a friend last night...she started Carnivore about a year ago when we first met and lost a bunch of weight. She's was pretty consistent the first half of 2023 and maintained it until she went pretty "off the wagon" for about 3 weeks this summer. In those 3 weeks she gained 18 pounds. She got to the point where she just felt sick all the time and got tired of feeling uncomfortable again. She also started getting scared she would gain it ALL back again. She has been super strict now for several months but just now finally lost that 18 pounds she so quickly gained.
We commiserated a lot last night about how quickly the weight goes on but how slowly it goes off. She also kept saying how NOT worth it the whole thing was, and most of the food choices she was making were just terrible and for no reason whatsoever. She knows now she feels so much better when she's on track and not giving in to temptation.
She has two teenage kids who both just had birthdays, she said this is the first time ever she's made it through those birthdays without treats! 💪 Next month is her birthday and she's feeling super confident now she can stay on track for that. And by then she will be feeling so awesome that she KNOWS she can make it through Christmas. 🙌🙌 In the past she would always be on some diet but by her kids birthdays she basically gave up for the rest of the year and would restart in Jan. That setback she had this summer and ALL THE WORK it took to get back right again was the wake up call she needed to not let that same cycle happen again this year.
Some might call her 3 weeks off track and that weight gain a failure, but it inevitably led to her being successful during her hardest time of year.
Sometimes we have to fall down in order to learn how to get back up stronger. We have all been knocked down this year and had setbacks...It's not a failure if you use those situations to make your stronger. 🤎🤎🤎
Pictures from the beautiful meal they made for me last night.
Yesterday we surprised the kids and brought home a puppy!! They have been begging for one for years and we felt like the time was right to bring one home.
Meet Angus 🐕 He's a Golden Retriever/King Charles Cavalier Spaniel mix. He's 11 weeks old and currently weighs about 8 pounds, he should be around 35 pounds fully grown. I know it will be an adjustment for a while as he gets potty trained etc but we are so excited. 😂 Wish us luck! 🤪
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 Tuesday! Thanks to those that hung out on the Livestream last night. One of the topics we talked about is breaking a stall. And unfortunately the best advice I have for breaking a stall is "keep it boring" and just stay consistent. Honestly that's been my motto this year. I love variety of course, but the more simple/boring I keep things with my food the better results I get. Usually when we add "variety" we add a lot of diary, or carbs, or those replacement recipes that increase cravings or contain hidden dairy/carbs/calories.
It might be hard to get into a routine at first but I do find that just eating the same things most days is actually a lot easier. And if you really enjoy that food (and know how to cook it), you'll still look forward to it each day.
If you're feeling stuck, just focus on consistency and keeping that food simple, and I PROMISE it will work...you just have to be patient.
Boring =Results! Have you found this to be true for you?
Happy Tuesday evening!
We spent the day at the farm show w/out 5 yo who didn't feel well. Which was probably good as it was windy, cold, rainy. We figured we walked 3+ miles. So lots of fresh air and exercise.
We ate breakfast on the way (location is an hour away from our house.) They had a Chicken Club Protein Bowl, so I had that. The "cheese" was plastic american cheese and it had tomatoes on it; but otherwise it was just eggs, bacon and chicken breast. I also had about 1/2 of my normal protein coffee on the drive.
We skipped lunch.
After some farm errands in that city, we came home to chore and go through all the swag we got. Caps, tee-shirts, flashlights, rain gauges, fly swatters, chip clips, pens and I seriously will never have to buy another note pad or sticky notepad, ever! And of course the nice grocery bags and 5 gallon buckets.
Then we took the grandkids swag in to them. Stickers, caps, corn hats, coloring pages, rubber bracelets, pencils.
Then we went to our Mexican ...
