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 ...
Good Evening y'all!! I haven't posted my meals for a couple of days because not sure how to log them. But here's what I have been having on repeat with the exception of the mexican restaurant nachos without the chips.
I have been eating bacon, my morning coffee except this morning. I'm currently out of raw milk and equip protein powder. So when I do make coffee again it will be with coconut milk. I know it's not carnivore but it doesn't upset my stomach and I have it. So I'm gonna use it.
Also I have been eating breakfast burritos or tacos made with egglife wraps, eggs, bacon bits, and dubliner cheese by kerrygold.
Today for lunch it was the leftover nachos minus the chips from the mexican restaurant and homemade buffalo style chicken wings with some blue cheese dressing.
Tonight we had tacos out of egglife wraps, taco meat with bettergoods mild taco seasoning, cheddar cheese, sour cream, and green salsa.
We're going for a walk again in the morning before it gets to hot.
Currently the ...
Today I went to acupuncture and took my son to an allergy appointment. I picked up tacos for him and fixed a ribeye for myself.
This evening, we worked in the basement to get rid of toys my son has outgrown. The back of my car is full of toys and we are sharing them with one of our pastor’s preschool age children. We also collected three bags of trash.
Lab test results have been popping in.
Cholesterol 276
Triglycerides 63
HDL 67
VLDL 12
LDL 197
LDL direct 180
Cholesterol/HDL ratio 4.1
Homocysteine 10.4
Vitamin D 50.1
Ferritin 227
Apo A 172
CRP 14
My ferritin has been very high for over a year, so I will donate blood to help that situation.
Otherwise, I will increase fasting to reduce inflammation and consistently take my methylated vitamins. They are expensive so I have not taken them daily, but I will.
She forgot to add fasting insulin which is a bummer. My last A1C was 5.0 so it has increased slightly from last year.
I am including pictures for accountability. The deviled eggs and turkey were ...
Had a great start to school yesterday. Hopefully it continues to go smoothly. Last weekend my son found his Eagle Scout project! He is making a cross country course for a rival school in some woods the town just bought. He loves the idea on creating a trail/course that he will get to race on next season. However, I didn't use my brain and now have poison ivy in my legs🤦. So I am strict beef/eggs the next few days while I heal from that life lesson.
