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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Chris and I have very much enjoyed the last few days away connecting with the 2 of us. Now we are ready to get back home to the kiddos (and my Mom). How has your week been going?

Let's share some meal ideas, what are you eating today?

@kimberlyreitsma Good luck! @Lauraespath @ChrisSpath Had my bloodwork done a couple times since going low carb / carnivore and as expected my total cholesterol (280) and LDL (182) have gone up. Of course my new doc thought this was concerning and was considering medication. I explained about the diet and that my HDL (84) , Triglycerides (87) and VLDL (14) were good! He said my ASCVD (atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease) percentage was too high (about 13%). I've never heard that talked about much - have you ever heard of that being used as a marker instead of just high cholesterol and LDL? I believe he said all the results were put into some equation to get the percentage...