Happy Tuesday!! I ended up not eating at all yesterday and decided to just fast for 48 hours. Doing an impromptu fast because I am so busy is when it's the easiest. I skipped breakfast because I thought we were going to have an early lunch, and then my lunch window got booked with meetings. By the time my work day ended I just decided to push through and go to the sauna etc and wait and eat today. I even ended up walking 7.5 miles on my walking pad throughout the day. I made sure to load up on some extra electrolytes with the exercise and the fasting.
I am actually going to a hotel near our house for today/tomorrow, I need reliable Internet for work and we are still experiencing outages today. Chris is going to get a new company installed tomorrow but not until then one of my work day, hopefully that fixes the issue. I'll have to go to the hotel gym and do my walking there since I won't have my walking pad. Chris offered to being it to the hotel for me so I could walk while I work but I am not quite that crazy. 🤪 🤔 We did talk though about how funny it is how obsessed I get with things. I am just an ALL IN or ALL OUT person.
What does your fasting schedule look like this week?
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. 🎹🤍🖤
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Happy Monday! I got a lot of steps in yesterday walking around Chicago, it's always fun when you can walk in a new place. The weather is beautiful here. Today most everyone else is traveling in and I am getting things set up for the week.
How was your weekend? We are officially halfway through Sept, quick is so hard to believe. Are you feeling solid or needing to reset your month? What is your non-negotiable goal for this week that can help you reach your goals for the month?
Happy Monday/other side of the Covid mountain.
Yes, according to my chiro, I have covid but am over the worst of it. I'm not contagious anymore. My office-mates are not thrilled but in all honesty, I thought it was allergies and by the time I was really bad, it was the weekend.
But today I'm much better and while snorkling and coughing, it's so much better. Farmer is still a little puny but not near as bad I was. He was able to do a little bit outside today (stayed home from the factory.)
I'm 30 hours into my fast. We'll see when I break it tomorrow or Wednesday. I rather think I like starting a longer fast after lunch. The 24 hour mark was while I was at work, so it was easy to sail past the hunger while drinking LMNT.
Exercise? Just errands at lunch and a chiro adjustment.
Sunshine: yes at lunch and choring.
I'm off to read for a bit and we'll be in bed early. Last night was the first night in a week I was able to sleep in the bed all night.
Sweet dreams. Pray and be ...
