Good morning and happy new year to all!!
Well, here we are. Day one of the year. Feeling a little down. Away from family. Feeling lonely I guess. I will go for a walk and after I will keep watching my marathon of The X files to keep me distracted since I already did laundry and cleaned around the house.
Here's a picture of my last night meal.
I hope you all enjoy your day with family and/or friends.
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 Sunday! We had a wonderful dinner out last night, we never all get dressed up, let alone for an evening meal. 😂 We have church today, and then we are having skirt steak for lunch.
This afternoon I need to make a big batch of dog food for Angus for the week ahead. I do more meal prep for Angus than the rest of us. 😂😂🤪 Back when I was on a vegan diet I used to spend hours and hours every week meal prepping for the week ahead, plus I was eating 6x a day back then. I just love how much less time I have to spend more on prepping, and eating in general. I can't imagine ever going back to eating so many times a day every again.
How many times a day do you tend to eat?
Livestream tomorrow night here in Locals at 7pm EST.
Happy Saturday! I mentioned yesterday we are going out to dinner tonight, we are actually going out to a nice steakhouse. We basically never go out for steak because we can just make steak our own steak at home for cheaper. However, Chris is excited for a special occasion reason to have someone else cook the steak and Penelope is excited to not have to do the dishes after. 😂
Our go-to places to eat out are places we can get burger patties for cheap, or wings, or someplace like Fogo de Chao because it's all you can eat (but we don't go there as often anymore).
What is your go-to place for eating out?
I’m glad to be back in the community after a bit. I veered off track for about a month to eating more veg/fruit/carbs - what was I thinking? 🤢 My digestive system is very glad I’m back on track - I just did a grocery haul after a delicious tri tip lunch. Yum.
I missed being part of the group, even though I didn’t post much. It means a lot to know there’s a group that has a similar mindset.
I like the new UI!
