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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I was listening to a podcast today on health and it cracked me up how many times the guest doctor suggested to lower their cholesterol to improve certain health conditions. Mind you, these were not even heart conditions, which I could understand given dogma. It was related to issues steming from hormones and blood pressure. It's wild how ingrained some ways of thinking are in mainstream medicine. I cringe when I hear it because many people will take a statin or cut red meat on this advice.
I'm sure many of you hear things like this from your own doctor too. Do you find yourself rolling your eyes when you hear it on a podcast, TV show, etc? Have you been able to let your own preconceived thoughts go or still fight with that?

Good Evening Y'all!! I failed miserably today. I have been extremely stressed the last few weeks. I have a 61 year old cousin who is dying and has been in hospice care for the last 3 weeks. She and I are like sisters. Her body is currently shutting down. Plus I had a total hysterectomy and salpingo-oophorectomy Monday a week ago. I'm healing pretty decent from that. Plus appliance problems. Then today is my precious Daughter in Law's birthday and I caved today. I will start new tomorrow because I have been doing great. Staying as strict as I wanted to in preparation for my surgery. The win is I lost 11 lbs total the months of September and October. I kept inflammation down in preparation for the surgery. So not all is lost in one day. I just need to pick myself up, shake it off, and do it again. Please pray for my family and I as we are preparing to say good bye to my cousin. This is extremely hard because she is the first one of us 18 cousins that I got to grow up with. Her little ...