Happy Thursday!! I had so much fun on the livesteam last night. One topic that came up a lot was fat and protein ratios. I think this topic comes up a lot for 2 reasons.
1. A lot of people online give out advice for weight loss in terms of ratios and macros.
2. People want someone to give them the specific macros that will help them lose weight.
But unfortunately it's not that simple. I do think it's important to make sure we eat enough protein for our bone and muscle health long term. For most people that number is around 120-140 grams of protein per day (not grams of meat, grams of protein IN the meat). But after that I think it isn't as helpful to obsess about your macros. I think our body has different needs day to day and we need to be able to have flexibility to live our daily lives. Hitting the exact same macros daily doesn't make sense unless you're trying to be a professional body builder.
I think having a main goal of hitting specific macros daily has people doing some weird things like eating spoonfuls of beef tallow because they ran out of a protein macro but still need more fat. 🤮 Or it prevents them from going out to dinner with friends because they are too much protein already. I personally wouldn't last long on this way of eating if I had to do things like that.
I totally understand the desire to be told a very specific protocol or macros that will make you successful this time. But what kept me from losing weight before (or keeping it off) wasn't some missing information or perfect macro ratio.
What I needed to learn was consistency and how to address my relationship with food so I stopped the roller coaster of "on and off the wagon".
Yes making slight adjustments to your fat and protein can be helpful for very specific health reasons (like healing hormones you might need higher fats), and if you like tracking go for it. But most people just need to learn how to live their daily life without giving into temptations, and no perfect macros will make that easier. ❤️❤️ You can listen to the Livestream replay for more of my thoughts on that.
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 Monday! We made it to Big Sky, Montana yesterday, WOW it's so beautiful!! It just feels like you are in a movie all the time. We grilled steaks and just spent lots of time outside enjoying the beautiful weather.
The house we are staying in is owned by LMNT, so it has all kinds of electrolytes and wellness goodies everywhere. Plus all kinds of natural soaps and laundry soaps etc. They host a lot of meetings here so one of the walls upstairs is a huge dry erase board so the kids are having fun drawing on it.
We sat in the sauna 🥵 and took turns doing the cold plunge. 🥶 Today we are going hiking and white water rafting.
How was your weekend? What is your non-negotiable for this week?
Happy Sunday! We made it to Idaho Falls last night, it was just a stop over place for us and we had no idea that it would be so beautiful. We got here early in the evening after the hot springs and had a really lovely walk along the river. The weather has been so nice!! We are only 3 hours from Big Sky so headed over there this morning, we are staying in a house there for 5 days. I am excited to stay in one place for a few days. 😂 We are super excited because the house we are staying in has a cold plunge, a sauna, and a gym.
What are your plans today? You doing any prep for the week ahead?
Yesterday we had a PACKED day and some really amazing experiences!! We started the morning in Page Arizona looking at the Glen Canyon Dam, which opens up to the beginning of the Grand Canyon. It looks like you're on a totally different planet!
We then headed up to Redmond, and stopped along the way to take a hike up to some Salt Caves. The drive alone was just amazing as well!
In the afternoon we took a tour of the Redmond Salt mine, WOW what a cool experience!! We went down 700 feet and were completely surrounded by salt! They have 29 miles of tunnels through the mine! I will tell you all about it on a future Livestream! But we all licked the walls and the kids got to mine for their own salt rocks!
We ended the day just south of Salt Lake City. It was a super packed day but thankfully everything went very smoothly.
Today is going to be much more relaxing, and the kids planned the perfect "Mom" day. A slow morning followed by a soak in some Lava Hot Springs this afternoon. ...
