I made a double batch of pork chips for the pool party we went to yesterday (it was with the Jiu Jitsu school party to celebrate all the belt promotions). All those Jiu Jitsu guys CRUSHED the whole huge container in no time! Of course most of them went on to go eat pizza and drink beer but they were super impressed with my pork chips. 😂 All the rest of the food was just snacky stuff and junk but Chris and I could still snack with everyone since we had brought something we could eat.
That's my best advice for group gatherings, potlucks, or going to someone to elses house, being something you know you can eat. What is your go-to dish or item to bring to a party or gathering?
*Based on the poll let's do a Livestream here in Locals Tuesday this week at 8pm est/5pm pst
**And in case you want more details about the pork chips I have a whole video only for supporters here in Locals showing how I make them. Go to the Content section! 👍🏼
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 Wednesday evening Family!
It was a busy day with work, and then our new office space Open House and Ribbon Cutting. About 1/3 of our other co-works come up to our office so it was nice to put faces with some names/voices. I worked a long 11 hour day so I'm starting to fade here.
Exercise/fresh air/sleep
Standing desk, not much, 6.5 hours
M1: protein coffee and 2 more regular cups of coffee
M2: Homemade egg & turkey sausage quiche, 1 beef stick
M3: Leftover fajitas w a little sour cream.
I was proud of myself of not even being tempted by the cookies at the reception. I was busy giving tours of our new space and talking to co-workers.
Early bedtime as Farmer is fighting off the crud Again!
Swollen glands.
Good Evening Y'all!! Today has been a not so good day. I'm still not feeling well. I got a steroid shot today to see if it helps kick this mess. No fever just fatigue, cough, headache, and runny nose. I learned something about a steroid shot it made me eat almost everything in sight. I know I made a bad choice today, but I also know that the one bad choice doesn't mean I failed at changing my lifestyle. It will if I allow it to have control but that's not happening. I will be getting a good dinner here shortly.
I ate a burger patty with salt for brunch.
After the steroid shot I ate some junk food. Not a lot of it but enough for me to realize what I was doing. Then I ate some pork king good sour cream and onion pork rinds. Y'all those are so good. So tonight I'm gonna have either leftover pulled pork and chicken that we still have or some air fried chicken thighs. I'm honestly leaning towards the chicken thighs. I will post pics of my brunch and dinner later along with my macros. For me...
I was listening to a YouTube recently … I think it was Ketogenic Woman? They were talking about women and fasting. They said women do better with an alternative fast like doing sardine fast, bone broth with butter fast, egg or something like that. Considering doing an egg fast. Anyone else have insight into this?
