Happy Tuesday!
Today Kerry from HomesteadHow and his cameraman are coming to the house today to film us for the Healing Humanity Documentary! We are sharing the story of how Carnivore has reversed Chris's Type 2 Diabetes and then our weight loss and healing overall. We have some good meat to cook up for them as well during filming so that should be fun.
We are one week into the new year, and for some of you it's Day 2 (or day 1) and for some of you it's Day 7 (or more), how are you doing so far? I saw several mentions of "Meat Fatigue" yesterday, who here is experiencing that?
I personally like a variety of meats but several of you are doing beef only so that's not an option. My one suggestion is to mix textures of meat, eating burger patties over and over again can get old QUICK. How can you give yourself a different texture of beef today? Take some beef/fat scraps and crisp them up in a skillet or air fryer to eat something crispy. Can you find some beef bacon? Have a steak or go the opposite route of a slow cooked chuck roast. Or find some fatty beef ribs and get them nice and crispy in a roasting pan or broiler. Even if you're eating the same meat day after day, think about how you can mix up cuts of that meat and cooking styles to give yourself more variety. I don't know too many people (anyone really) who could just live on burger patties all the time. You don't want to make yourself so miserable you end up going back to carbs/sugar.
What are some of the things you do to help you get past meat fatigue?
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 New Year!! Cheers to 2026!! 🎊🎆
I am praying blessings on each of you for a healthy and happy 2026! 🙏🏼
Are you making any New Year's Resolutions? Remember my biggest advice is to keep things simple, having lots of goals is great, but we want to start the year with momentum by giving ourselves daily wins. In order to do this we need to keep things simple and realistic. Then you can stack on more goals as we feel stronger. The first thing you have to do is make the decision that you are going to do this, NO MATTER WHAT! 💪🏼
What is your one non-negotiable goal for this year?
New Year's Eve!! My brother's family flies home this morning and Chris is leaving for a couple days at the same time. We've had a very wonderful visit with everyone. My Mom is still staying for a few more days. Today I am taking down all the Christmas decorations and giving the house a deep clean. That's my favorite thing to do post Christmas, just give the house a big reset. Have you put your Christmas decorations away yet?
Today is the last day of 2025!! New Year's is a wild time in Arizona and there will be fireworks all night long, I always go to bed early New Year's Eve but the midnight fireworks always wake us up for a while.
What are your plans for New Year's Eve? Tomorrow we'll set some goals for 2026!! Happy New Year!!
Accountability
1. Wings, coffee with cream
2. Corned beef, mustard
3. Protein shake
2 walks today, about 45 minutes total, 1 short walk without cane or walker, only about 7 minutes but it’s a start!
Sleep ok, could be better.
Campground is beautiful with a nice lake view. Weather was cold to start but warmed up nicely, sunny & nice. Happy New Year!
