Happy Wed! I am officially 3 weeks post op from my surgery and healing really well. I still get sore and am swollen by the end of the day but this has been much easier healing than the tummy tuck.
It is strange though how our mind plays tricks with us (body dysmorphia). Some moments I look in the mirror and think how small my arms look and other times I think they look the same as before. That's been a very tricky thing with weight loss overall. Someone recently asked me how I see myself, do I see myself before I lose weight or do I really see myself as I am now.
Too be honest it really depends on the day, and it's probably somewhere in between. It is really hard to see noticeable changes in ourselves day to day, and often times we can't really see how far we've come at all. We spend too much time criticizing the parts of ourself we still aren't happy with.
This is why I always talk about how important it is to take pictures! I was feeling swollen and very puffy yesterday , I make this collage of myself and went, 😳"Dang okay that is a big difference". And then I look back at pictures of myself from before I lost weight and it's just so crazy the difference. Yet why do I have a hard time accepting that sometimes?
My friend Ashley in the YouTube interview I did with her joked she had the opposite problem. Even at her heaviest she always thought she was smaller than she was, and then once she lost weight she liked back at pictures and said "Wait I was actually that heavy?"
What has they been like for you? Do you have a hard time seeing how far you've come when you look in the mirror? Do you see yourself for how you are now or are you only focus on what else you need to change?
I don't typically love cooking with cast iron, despite the excellent results they can bring. It's messy and smells up the house. Add to that, the one we have is super old and not very good. We were recently gifted a really good one from Lancaster Cast Iron so today I decided to give it a try. We have a side burner on our Weber so I could do it outside. I sous vide a steak, then seared it in tallow on the new pan. Man it was incredible. What a difference it made from our old one. Super easy clean up too. Below is the pan, of course I forgot to take a picture of the steak haha.
Do you love using cast iron? What are some favorites you make in them?
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 Monday! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. We have had a very rainy one in Arizona, especially up north near our cabin. They whole little town is flooded, so many homes and small businesses are under water. Our cabin should be fine since it's up on a hill, but these businesses are seasonal anyway, so this is pretty terrible for all of them. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
How was your weekend? No Livestream tonight, I am headed to Houston for 3 days for work. How are you feeling about the month ahead? Are you concerned about temptations this month? What is your non-negotiable for November?
Wow this new month snuck up on me, I mean I knew it was the end of October and Halloween but I just went "Wait it's November 1st already!?!" 😂 We didn't even recap our month yet! 🤪 So let's do that today, and tomorrow we can set non-negotiables for November. Also the time changed last night, (not in Arizona), and the good news is that means I start work now at 7 am instead of 6 am, since we are only one hour ahead of texas now. 🙌🏼🙌🏼 I'm traveling this week so I won't get the full effect until the end of the week, but I'm very excited for the next 5 months of a little later start time. (Even though I think the time changing in general is very dumb)
Okay month end recap: What was the best thing that happened for you in October?
Where did you get stuck this month or have a setback? What did you learn from that?
