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 Saturday!! Hope you are having an amazing week. Plans for the Spaths this weekend...not much 😂😂 I intentionally have no plans today other than hang out with the kids and just play games and watch Christmas movies. Sunday my big project is going to be organizing Christmas presents and starting to wrap everything. I'm just so excited so sleep in my bed for a few weeks and eat at home for a while! *Although Ashley and her family fed me great this week!!
Do you have all your shopping done for Christmas? What are your plans this weekend?
Accountability
1. Pork belly
2. Wings
3. Protein shake
Exercise- 20 min walk around campground
Sleep - better, no cramps either, could it be the b1
Happy Friday! I am headed home from Texas this morning, excited to not have to travel for a few weeks and just take things slower for the holidays. I always catch up on my podcasts while I travel, one that released this week that was really good was Jelly Roll on Joe Rogan.
For those of you that don't know, Jelly Roll is a pretty famous country singer. He was previously incarcerated and really turned his life when he got out of prison, overcame addiction, and became a famous singer. He also was over 550 pounds and has always struggled with his weight. He's also been very open about his previous addictions with drugs etc, and obviously that's transferred over into food.
Over the last 2 years Jelly Roll has lost over 300 lb!! In this podcast he really outlines how he started at over 500 lb to lose the weight, the steps that it took, and more importantly, the therapy and the healing that he has needed to do in order to address the real reason why he was eating.
He and Joe ...
