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 ...

I heard someone say when ask how do you just eat boring food?
I would rather eat boring food then feel bad because of the way food makes me feel physically and emotionally when I look at myself when I weigh 300#.
This hit home for me.

Sorry I missed the Live. Farm parts run an hour away plus I'm short on sleep and was rather grumpy. I did get a nap in the car (Hubs was driving.)
I'll listen tonight. Hope all is well with everyone. 🥰

Asking for ideas... having very real salty chip craving... ive had a great day and won't give in but anyone got an idea how to fix that? Other than the golden word NO!! 😅

I watched a short by an ex seal today and it was so good. I had intended to share it here but I bumped the screen and lost it. Couldnt find it again. But here is the jist of what he said...it was so good.

He got some advice early on during his training that really shaped his journey and helped him learn to succeed... it seems simple but im going to try to share it...

1. Get up on time
2. Make your bed correctly
3. Get to your 5am workout on time. Dont think about the pain. Think about making it to your 1st goal: breakfast.
(Build tiny wins)
4. Your next goal is to make it thru until lunch.
5. Your next goal is to make it thru til dinner.
6. After dinner, do everything you need to do to make it to bed on time. Climb into that well made bed that you took time to make this morning and rest.

And thats how you reach a long term (8 months...