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!!
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. 🎹🤍🖤
*Livestream Monday night at 4pm pst/7pm est
I started planning my menus yesterday for Christmas weeks. A trip to Costco had me SHOCKED at the current price of crab legs so we'll be changing up our traditional Christmas meal this year. Lobster tails are a bit more affordable so we'll probably swap those in for Christmas Day to have with steaks. Brainstorming some ideas for Christmas Eve lunch before church as well.
What is on your menu for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year?
Happy Saturday!! Hope you are having an amazing week. Plans for the Spaths this weekend...not much 😂😂 I intentionally have no plans today other than hang out with the kids and just play games and watch Christmas movies. Sunday my big project is going to be organizing Christmas presents and starting to wrap everything. I'm just so excited so sleep in my bed for a few weeks and eat at home for a while! *Although Ashley and her family fed me great this week!!
Do you have all your shopping done for Christmas? What are your plans this weekend?
Happy Friday! I am headed home from Texas this morning, excited to not have to travel for a few weeks and just take things slower for the holidays. I always catch up on my podcasts while I travel, one that released this week that was really good was Jelly Roll on Joe Rogan.
For those of you that don't know, Jelly Roll is a pretty famous country singer. He was previously incarcerated and really turned his life when he got out of prison, overcame addiction, and became a famous singer. He also was over 550 pounds and has always struggled with his weight. He's also been very open about his previous addictions with drugs etc, and obviously that's transferred over into food.
Over the last 2 years Jelly Roll has lost over 300 lb!! In this podcast he really outlines how he started at over 500 lb to lose the weight, the steps that it took, and more importantly, the therapy and the healing that he has needed to do in order to address the real reason why he was eating.
He and Joe ...
