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 Tuesday!! My body has been catching up on sleep the past few days. I have been going to bed when the kids do and we've all been sleeping in. The kids are definitely going through a growth spurt, especially Nathaniel, he has always been our early riser but he's been sleeping almost 2 hours later than normal each day.

Sleep is one of the most important things for our health. It's so difficult for our bodies to heal (or lose weight) without proper sleep. I was eating dinner in Spain, and staying up so late, etc, that my sleep was just so short and when I did sleep it wasn't quality sleep. Now that I am home I am back to my normal sleep routine, and not eating after about 3pm so I am getting much better sleep again. And of course I am feeling so much better overall after several days in a row of long/quality sleep.

How did you sleep last night? Any tips or tricks that help you sleep better?

Happy Monday!! How was your weekend? We are half way through February already, how have things been going so far? If you've gotten off track it's a good time to reset and build some momentum before the end of the month. We have 2 full weeks til the end of February. Plus, we are going to blink and it's going to be summer!!

What is your non-negotiable for this week?

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Update: I took my dose of prednisone this morning but I won’t be taking any more. The risks outweigh the rewards. They are making me feel awful and almost like I’m about to have a seizure, that high of glucose doesn’t work for me.
Hey everyone! Been a busy few weeks, started my teaching job, been fighting influenza for about 3 weeks on top of that. Yesterday I was in urgent care because my breathing hasn’t been great. I have pneumonia for the 5th time in the last 4 years. They put me on prednisone. When I tested my ketones and glucose today my blood sugar was 138 from the meds. My normal daily morning fasted glucose is always between 76-94. Is there anything I can do to help buffer that huge spike? Should I try to fast through this? Even though I just want warm foods at the moment 😅 I’ve never seen my numbers that high and it made me nervous!