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 Monday!! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I am starting four long days of teaching here in Houston. I am hoping to find time to get some walks in and maybe even hit up a workout class with my friend after work one day. While I have been more consistent with movement/exercise over the last year, it's not my 'non-negotiable'. I definitely try to focus on exercising daily, but I know that when I'm traveling or when things get crazy, sometimes it doesn't happen. I don't let that derail me and I still just focus on keeping my food dialed in and giving myself that daily win.

That's why having a non-negotiable is so important. We know not everything can go right every single day So what is that one simple thing that you can focus on that will help you stay on track and not derail all of your goals? What is your non-negotiable for this week?

Happy Sunday! I am headed to Houston today for the week for work. Thankfully I have my friend Ashley who lives there, she does Carnivore as well. I'll get to work with her this week and we'll hang out and grill at her house a lot so my food this week will be delicious!

It is still going to be very hot in Houston this week (and humid I am sure), are things still really hot where you live, or are you starting to get any cool fall weather? Is it nice enough to go for some walks outside where you live?