One of the topics that came up on the Livestream last night was stress. It's pretty crazy how much stress can negatively impact your health overall. And we often can't find real healing until we resolve chronic stress.
Physical Health Effects off stress!
- Cardiovascular Issues: Chronic stress can elevate blood pressure, increase heart rate, and contribute to heart disease or stroke risk due to prolonged release of stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline.
- Immune System Suppression: Stress weakens the immune system, making you more susceptible to infections, colds, or other illnesses and slowing recovery.
- Digestive Problems: Stress can cause or exacerbate issues like irritable bowel syndrome, acid reflux, nausea, or stomach pain due to altered gut function.
- Sleep Disturbances: Stress often leads to insomnia or poor sleep quality, which can further impact energy levels and overall health.
- Muscle Tension and Pain: Chronic stress can cause muscle tightness, leading to headaches, migraines, or back and neck pain.
- Weight Changes: Stress may lead to overeating or loss of appetite, contributing to weight gain or loss, often linked to emotional eating or hormonal changes.
Long-Term Risks:
Chronic, unmanaged stress can contribute to serious conditions like diabetes, obesity, or mental health disorders due to cumulative effects on the body’s systems.
There is so much about stress that is out of our control, but at least knowing how if affects you we can try and understand what to do to reduce those impacts. In addition when there is stress out of our control, the most important thing we can do is limit other controllable stressors, and fuel our body properly!!
On a scale of 1-10 what is your current stress level in life?
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 am feeling some profound sadness today. There have been so many violent tragic events over the last week, and then the horrific Charlie Kirk assassination yesterday. He was so young and had such young kids, it is so heartbreaking for them.
Today is also the anniversary of the tragic events on Sept 11th, which is another day of sadness and rememberce. None of this is "diet" related, but it is another reminder of why our health matters. Focus on quality time with your family and live your life each day to the fullest. 🙏🏼
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1949487959369196005?t=vfy5naD7WDnNVBDsnG6daQ&s=19
Sharing quickly. I'm sick with the respiratory crud. I'm pretty sure I got it from my coworker's wife when I hugged her on Monday. He's in the hospital and she's been there a lot.
I came home yesterday and went immediately to bed. Slept 1.5 hrs. I feel better today but I'm coughing yet. Lots of Vit C, Elderberry, liquids and good nourishing food.
Yesterday's food
M1- coffee & protein shake
M2- chicken salad and wings
M3- taco bowl
@Karas-Stanley, the HWC is now all gone, so I'm back to black coffee. 😬🙏🏻
As I'm feeling better, I'll be cleaning up my eating more also. Just don't have the ambition to cook ahead much.
And I'll be back to rebounding daily. Perhaps today to get the crud up and out of my lungs.
Ok off to work. Have a great day everyone!! 🙌🏻👏🏻👊🏻🫂
Happy Tuesday!! Hopefully you can come hang out tonight at 7pm EST for the Livestream. As a Thank You to those of you who are supporters I will draw one name for a Giveaway. I'll send a goodie box with a Meater and some of my other favorite Carnivore goodies. We'll email one the winner so if you can't join you can still win.
To enter the Giveaway just comment below your WHY for eating carnivore (or keto or low carb etc). Just share WHY you are focusing on your health!
Chat with you tonight!
