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 ...
There has been several different scams going around lately, the guy using my pictures recently, Dr.Berry has had some fake accounts set up using his likeness, and some others. I am going to recap those situations tonight and hopefully help people know what to look out for.
I'll answer questions on the steam as well. Hope you can make it!
I'm hitting a bit of a rough patch. I'm a massive self savatoger and I can feel myself creeping towards that! So I'm posting here for accountability and to see if anyone else does the same thing. My birthday is next week and for some reason that is always a huge food trigger for me. We're going away for my birthday which is also usually a huge trigger because vacations used to be for eating junkie the entire time. I hate that I almost feel like "if I can't eat everything I want, what's the point of going to all these restaurants on vacation?"
My plan is
-go to Costco and Sprouts today to see what foods I can get excited about to either have before we leave or while we're gone. I especially want to find some fun seltzers and pork rinds
-think of something fun to stick a birthday candle in instead of cake (I'm thinking a good cheese)
-make a list of what I'm excited to do on vacation other than eat junk
Any other ideas?
It sounds like such a terrible problem to have if you're still losing, but maintenance can be a tough place to hang on to. For me, a couple times a year, like around vacations or holidays, I start to see the scale creep up a little. That's when I'll go beast mode to get right back to baseline. For the past week I e been trying to slightly moderate meal size, and completely eliminate eating outside of my meal. So far success. Since my calories are low, I won't keep it up long; I'll then cycle back into large emails again. So far so good. Below is lunch today. A small steak and a couple burger patties.
If you're in maintenance, do you find this pattern? What's your strategy to get right?
