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!! I totally forgot until late in the day that yesterday was St. Patrick's Day 🍀, did you wear green 💚? Did you eat corned beef? That's a pretty carnivore friendly food tradition for a holiday.

It's hard for a lot of us to admit we can't deviate during the holidays or it will throw us off track for a long time. And it seems like it's always a holiday of some sort! It's also okay to grieve the fact that we can't celebrate in the same way we used to. At first new traditions feel strange but over time you begin to look forward to them.

How do you tend to handle holidays at this point? Do you miss out on all the old foods you used to have? Do you still have the old foods and just get back on track the next day? Do you have Carnivore/low carb replacements you do instead?

Tuesday evening...

So tonight I'm gonna share what went right today. 🥰

• Woke up feeling better and had more energy than I have in the past month (since I got sick its been really rough)

• Ate breakfast without nausea🥓🥚☕️

• Walked on the treadmill. 💪👟

• Drank plenty of water, with LMNT💧💦

• Had a very productive day in the studio 📸

• Got to spend time with youngest daughter and her 2 littles 👶💞👶

• Tracked my food in carb manager and stayed close to goals 🥳 only over a bit

Taking things one day at a time.

Happy Tuesday!! We had a friend over for dinner last night, he recently turned 30. Since we met him about 5 years ago, he has lost over 100 pounds. He is so lucky he woke up to his health issues before he has some catastrophic health event, so many of us end up with live threatening issues before we end up making radical changes. It's such a blessing he was able to lose the weight and regain a healthy life while he was still very young.

He is such a vocal advocate for keto/carnivore because he knows that it saved is life. He asked us "what are the things you tell people that change their mind the most?" I thought that was a good question for this group. If you were trying to convince someone to change their ways and try Carnivore/keto, what are some things you think would inspire them? What were the things that you heard that inspired you?