Alright guys. I haven’t been on the locals app for quite some time. Was doing so good on strict carnivore! Then came December. Completely off the rails a couple of times now. Those few times of eating off plan and I’ve gained 16 LBS!!! ☹️🤮 I decided to come back to the group because I need your support to kick my butt in gear again! All that hard work for 10 months down the drain in a few days!
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 Saturday! I hope you are all doing well. I know some people in the group have had some recent tough news for themselves or family members. It really puts the day to day issues we face into perspective, and reminds me to just focus on doing the best I can to be as healthy as possible. To those who are having a hard time, we are all here for you and sending you some prayers and support. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Just focus today on doing the best you can and remember that food isn't going to bring you the comfort you are looking for.
Here is a little video of Penelopes performance from her piano recital l last night, she's been taking lessons for about a year and a half. 🎹🤍🖤
*Livestream Monday night at 4pm pst/7pm est
Happy Tuesday.
The taxes are at the accountant, let's hope my befuddled brain got it all correct. (I'm pretty sure it's ok. I double-checked and requested that if our accountant finds something wonky, to call me. Good thing I work a block away.)
We are both feeling the affects of late winter? colds? chem-trails? 🤷♀🤷♂ All I know is I'm dang tired of feeling this tired. I need warmth and sunshine!
And for my ears to clear up! I guess it's better than the stomach flu or a chest cold.
I'm getting back into the Lion diet gear. I don't feel great when I eat other meats like chicken or pork. I can do the occasional wings or bacon, but thats about it. We're going to request that our hunter doesn't give us bacon anymore as "rent" but maybe a chuck roll instead. Or gift card to the "fancy" butcher shop in the city.
Also will be cutting back on the dairy (again). I'll finish up the Greek yogurt and the HWC and that'll be it for a while.
I need to get my "ROAR" back. (Someone come up ...
Happy Monday!! I made it to Madrid yesterday, has some delays but thankfully it wasn't too bad. I actually slept more on my overnight flight than I typically do (I am terrible at sleeping on planes). My coworkers (all female 😂) and I went to an Turkish bath spa upon arrival and got some massages and soaked in the pools (the first picture is what it looks like inside). It was the perfect way to shake off the jet lag. Then we went to one of my favorite restaurants and had some amazing pork belly and picanha. It will be a very busy week but I am feeling good and excited to be here.
How was your weekend? What is your non-negotiable for this week?
Question---what do you do when you have a upset stomach?? Today while at school I got the worst upset stomach out of nowhere! I assume I did something somewhere (too much fat or too much coffee) or kid germs got me. Anywho...what is your go to?? I usually have mints or Tums just in case because it's better then a cracker. Sadly I had neither today and ate several saltine crackers before a fellow teacher gave me a couple mints. I seriously thought I might puke---it passed thank goodness.
Tomorrow I will sip on beef bone broth all day and try to stay away from both food and coffee. I wonder if I put broth in my travel thermos if that would keep?? Hmm. As a side note I ran over my favorite water bottle today with my car. Stay safe out there!
