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

Happy Saturday!! We have a very busy weekend as a family, but all fun things. Chris is putting up the outdoor Christmas lights today, I am taking Penelope to see the second Wicked movie this afternoon. Tomorrow we have church and then my aunt and uncle are coming over for lunch and a visit. When we have company I always make 2 meats (like we normally would) and then I usually add a vegetable or salad. Nathaniel requested I made a roasted sweet potato/apple dish that they have on the salad bar at Fogo. But we like to keep it our normal meats but add a couple whole food sides for the guests. We are excited to visit with them also.

Chris and I decided we will do a Livestream on. YouTube Sunday afternoon as well, 6 pm EST. I'll post the link tomorrow.

What are your plans this weekend?

Happy Friday!! I am so excited for a weekend (and a short week next week). I ended up doing some fasting this week, which I haven't done in a while. I just decided that while I was traveling on this short trip to Dallas I would just see if I ever got hungry enough to eat, and I didn't. So I was able to do a 48 hour fast, just by being busy while traveling. I haven't been doing a lot of full day fasting lately so this was a nice reset. It is weird to think about how I just used to eat all day long before when traveling, but now those are the days that seem easier (and cheaper) to just fast.

Have you been doing any fasting lately?