Happy Monday! How are you feeling today? Everything go well this weekend? Any challenges?
I know you have goals/non-negotiable set for the whole year, but Chris talked the other day about how short term goals can be really motivating. Each Monday I like to set a new goal, it might be the same as the week before or maybe you made a small tweak based on how things are going. But I think that doing short term goals and small adjustments like this is so much better than sticking with something that's not working, or making drastic changes.
So what is your one goal or non-negotiable for this week?
*Supporter Livestream Thursday this week (and next week).
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 ...
Good Morning! I felt like something different today so I make some egg&bacon mini waffles...basically mini omlets. I loved them. Kids said they were "dry" but what do they know. Haha. I ate a few of these along with a couple juicy eggs. I put beef ribs in the crockpot. I think the family dinner will either be meatloaf (no grain but does have homemade pasta sauce as my 'ketchup" ) or breakfast casserole. Both are winners in this house.
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.
