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 ...

Day 1

B/L: 2 burger patties w/ cheese and bacon
2/3 decaf coffee w/ 85g whole milk and 3 tsp sugar

Diced chicken breast

D: 1/2 NY strip steak and 1/2 air fried pork chop w/ butter

Ok back story, I started eating carnivore at the end of October 2025 and as a bridge I let myself have a little bit of sugar in my coffee because I can’t tolerate any sugar substitutes and I couldn’t drink it black- I tried. I didn’t have it every day though. But after listening to Laura on last night’s live, and watching some older YT videos today, I think I’m ready to give it up and do 100% carnivore. I’ve gone days without it but never completely taken it off the table.

I did have it today but tomorrow I want to get to April without the coffee and 100% carnivore! I did so good for my first 3 months and that was the one thing I held onto and I still saw success but it’s concerning to me why it’s so dang hard for me to give it up. It’s not the caffeine because I drink decaf or 2/3 decaf.

So I am ...

Thanks for the livestream, I missed but just watched the replay. Some thoughts:

• I was overweight/obese for 20 years with “normal” bloodwork until an elevated a1c showed up after donating blood. I was not healthy any of those 20 years. I wish I hadn’t fooled myself that b/c my bloodwork was ok, I wasn’t harming myself.
• just got back from a 5 day trip. I found that despite eating carnivore, restaurant food (seed oils) definitely affected me. (Also, too much cheese in an attempt to get enough calories). Post meal glucose spike today higher than it has been for 8 weeks. Happy to have control over my cooking again. (Great trip though!)
• definitely have low trust in doctors, and will NEVER take a statin nor allow my husband to. The “health industry” has been lowering cholesterol numbers for years with no evidence that the higher numbers are more harmful, but they definitely get more statin patients.