Happy Independence Day to those of you in the United States! 🎆🇺🇲🎆 And Happy Day 4 of the Beast Mode Challenge 🦁💪
Hopefully your day today is filled with lots of grilling and barbeques, which will make eating meat easier. The temptations for a lot of people today will include desserts and alcohol. Just think about how good you'll feel tomorrow if you avoid those things today!! Saying "No" in the moment is so hard but that fades quickly I promise. The regret and feeling bad physically will last much longer. Keep reminding yourself "it's not worth it".
Our family actually decided to skip a BBQ today since we have one planned with friends tomorrow and we are headed to Fogo de Chao for lunch. It's our favorite place in Arizona and we haven't been yet since we got back from Spain. We are excited for all the Brazilian meats and then plan to spend the afternoon in the pool. We will go for a walk as a family in the evening and watch people set off fireworks in our neighborhood (they go crazy around here!) 🎇 🎆 🎇 🎆
What are you eating today?
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 ...
It's not always steaks and chops for me. Sometimes I want something quick and easy, yet still filling, with all the nutrition I need. I didn't take anything out for lunch so I just threw some bacon cheeseburger meatballs in the air fryer and made 4 scrambled eggs. It was really good and a nice change up. I'm trying to drop a few pounds so this is a light meal and all I ate for the day.
What are your quick carnivore go to's? Meals you can throw together in a few minutes?
This morning my son asked for hamburgers....at 9am. Why yes I can do that! Hamburgers is his safety food. A hamburger never let him down. Which made me wonder....what is your safety food??
Waving Hi!!! Been busy but trying to keep up with you all. I'm doing well "enough.". Food is mostly ok. Exercise is all the busy things and the vibration machine. Some walking.
We head to Branson on Friday through Monday. We have planned our on-plan car snacks.
Ok I'm at work so back to the computer.
Just wanted to check in. 🫂👋🏻
