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 don’t know why I’m struggling so much! Well, probably because I just need to stay off the carbs 100% to get the food noise to go away and stop telling myself a little won’t hurt. I am NOT a moderator, when will I finally learn that?!?!
I ate clean yesterday, but was way over calories but I don’t care about that. I got on the scale to keep myself accountable. I’m mad at my lack of discipline- not the scale.

My Tuesday yoga instructor quit, my Thursday one is moving to Tuesdays but not until January so the only class I’m doing now is weights on Saturday so I need to make a plan to add more on my own which I will do later today. I have many DVDs for both wts and yoga and there’s the machines at the gym. There is a Zumba class that looks fun but I have athletic skills, not dance skills so we will see. 😁

I’m tracking everything again and will pop on here before bed for accountability. Have a good day everyone!

Happy Monday! How was your weekend? Feeling good today or struggling? We are in a weird time of year where time tends to stand still and fly by at the same time, and temptations are all around. My biggest advice with everything this time of year is just to keep your goals simple and be very proactive for planning ahead for any situations that might be tempting.

What is your non-negotiable goal for this week?

I had a work trip come up last minute this week and need to do in some things this evening to prep for it so no Livestream unfortunately. But as always If there's any topics you want me to discuss or questions you have, feel free to post them in the group and I will make sure to answer them daily.