Happy 1/1/25
I have been thinking a lot this past week. I went into my scale app and went back 5 years. The same pattern happens every year the end of December I would weigh and I am guessing didn't like it and didn't weigh again until January or February. It is just interesting because I drop weight all year and by end of Dec gained a lot back then January/February start again. However I did notice something positive. Everytime I start again in Jan/Feb I was always lower than the year before. I am still down 30 lbs then I was this time last year. This is still been a great accomplishment even though I have gained I am still at my lowest. Starting at the weight I am now is freaking awesome to me. I am excited to get to goal this year. I know it will happen. I have no doubt. That is so exciting to me.
I found a notebook and I had no idea what was in it. It was the picture of some quotes. I feel like I wrote them down and never looked at them again. I am going to try to commit to reading them everyday as a reminder of what I am doing and why.
I got this prayer book as well and I figured I share the very first page. So many things I want to happen this year. However I know it takes patience and it is in his timing.
Thankful for all of you and the support of this group! 2025 is going to be great❤
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. 🎹🤍🖤
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Happy Thursday!! This time leading up to Christmas always makes me feel so motivated to deep clean and organize. 😂😂 I am sure it's in preparation of all the chaos and "stuff" of Christmas morning, but this past weekend I took a full car load of things to donate and another full car load to the dumpster.
I also did a 48 hour fast this week, my first one in a really long time. I feel like the more strict I am leading up to the holidays the better I feel and the easier it is for me to say 'No' to temptations because I am in such a good place.
Something about Christmas always makes me motivated to "reset" my body and my house. 😂😂 Officially one week until Christmas! 🎄
Have you done any fasting lately?
Here I am!! dancing in the door I'm sure you all have missed my craziness...not really. LOL
In a nutshell, we've been BUSY, with shopping, wrapping, Littles, Cmas party, new job, up early to ride in with the man and all the things.
Job is still good and I'm still doing it on a wing and a prayer, meaning, little to no (basically NO) in-person training. So far, I've only royally screwed up one ledger and hopefully my account manager on that account can undo what I've done.
My preset is to get really down on myself, so I'm having to constantly remind myself, I was hired with them (at least the boss & possibly my manager), knowing I was green and would need help. I haven't gotten much, so I'm just doing what I think is right. I can't do correctly what I don't know to do and this screw up was because I was not told the order to enter transactions.
Ah well, hopefully it can be undone and redone. I'm also getting all the accounts that various other newbies had been working on, so it's all chaos. ...
