Merry Christmas 🎄❤️
We are keeping things more low key than we planned, both the kids were running fevers all day yesterday. I hope you have a wonderful day today surrounded by the ones you love.
Sending big hugs and love to anyone who is alone today or missing someone special. 💔
Merry Christmas to you all. 🎄❤️🥩🦞
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 ...
Whoops, in all the chaos of packing up last night and our early flight I forgot to make my post. It's 6:30am in Arizona and we are taxiing down the runway to take off for our long travel day. I have a new video I will post for you tomorrow but then I might be a little absent on our trip. For those of you that have been here for a bit, you'll know that we don't have cell service or much Internet in West Virginia where my grandparents live. We are visiting them to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on Saturday!! We fly back home on Monday, I will check in when I can. I hope you all have an amazing week.
Today was a easy food day for me...steak, 4 juicy eggs, and I had a rough moment with my 13yo just ya know being a teenager that I ate a little bit of carnivore ice cream. I like it btw. I made it for my middle son for a healthier way to get some fat in him for football instead of sugary carbs.
I also made some chocolate protein pancakes and meat lovers cheese roll ups. My oldest ate all the pancakes (double batch worth) and my middle and youngest ate all the roll ups. I call that successful! I'll do better tomorrow as I have been super strict lately and I see a difference. At least I didn't cave to cookies. I have baked twice this week for the kids activities and never even licked a finger....lol
I'm going to start posting my meals for accountability again. I stopped tracking my food and just ate twice a day until I was full. That didn't work, I gained weight. So I know what I need to do. Tracking.
Brunch: 3 chicken legs
Dinner: beef brisket Kinder's Buffalo sauce.
Prot.- 167.2
Fat-89.3
Carbs-2
