Happy Sunday! If you didn't know TikTok was banned last night, I have never had a TikTok account so it doesn't affect me at all, but I do know it's impacting a lot of people. Were you on TikTok at all? Apparently there are rumors Trump will allow them to extend operations for 90 days until they workout a long term plan once he takes office on Monday. We don't make things political in this group but it will be very interesting to see how things change overall with the new administration. We already see things shifting with the banning of Red 3, and hopefully we can get the rest of the food dyes out of our foods soon! And I think the Make America Healthy Again movement is going to really start building some positive momentum.
Today we are making my favorite meal, the skirt steak, chicken thighs, and shrimp on the griddle. Thankfully I am still off work tomorrow for the holiday, I am excited to catch up with everyone on a Monday night Livestream at 4pm pst/7pm est (since it's a holiday we'll start a little earlier). Have a great day!!
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 ...
Happy Friday!! I hope you are having a great week. We mostly don't have plans this weekend, I am hoping to get ahead by filming one more YouTube video, lots of puppy training and socialization, and good meats of course!! Mostly just excited to not be working and hang out with the family. 😂❤️
What are your plans this weekend?
**Also, if you been having issues with the Locals app where the posts cut off, I am so sorry, we've been talking with the Locals team to try and get it fixed. In the meantime try uninstalling the app and reinstalling to see if that fixes the problem.
Happy Thursday!! One of the things that I talked about on the live stream this week was the concept of " prioritize later". Meaning, so many of the reasons that we have to focus on our health and our wellness now is so that we will be able to enjoy our life later as we age We live in an instant gratification society that wants us to just do what feels good today, but most often denying ourselves of certain foods today or putting in the work to exercise today is what is going to give us health and happiness later. Focusing on "Later" can be difficult to keep you motivated day-to-day, which is why we also focus on short-term goals. But many times important changes we need to make today don't actually have a payoff until much later. Does that all make sense? 😂😂
What is something that you are doing today that is going to help to make you healthier and stronger later??