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 ...
Good Evening Y'all!! Accountability post for yesterday and today. I was successful at meeting my protein grams which is 135 for me. Yesterday I had 2 of the eggs from McDonald's egg mcmuffin's for breakfast and the 2 canadian bacon off of them. I didn't eat the bread of the mcmuffin and I ordered them minus the cheese. For lunch I had a Wendy's Baconator minus the bread and cheese. For supper I had Mississippi Roast.
Today I had 2 egglife wraps with egg, bacon crumbles, and cheese. I skipped lunch. Then for supper I had La Hacienda nachos minus the chips from my favorite Mexican restaurant. I'm pretty pleased with myself. Here's my stats for the last 2 days. Blessings!!
Hi Gang!
Sorry I've been a little scarce. Work is working (new added responsibilities I'm not sure I want.) We've been haying and pulling weeds and I decluttered and cleaned my spice cabinets. (you know, the one that holds all the cooking extras.) I don't feel too bad. The oldest spice was only 2009. I threw about 8 containers and restocked today.
We also ran over to another town to get new RO filters for our system. Then Farmer wanted to eat at Cracker Barrel. Can I say, as carnivores, just don't. There are no sides like cottage cheese. I should have gotten the burger, but I went with grilled chicken tenders and ended up with breaded ones. I ate 2 and brought the rest home. I could have sent them back to the kitchen but it took so long to get our meal as it was, that I just ate enough to get something in my stomach. We probably won't go back again for a very long time, if ever.
Otherwise my meals have been coffee protein shakes, beef sticks with sides of either Carn Snax or purse bacon...
