Happy Friday! I am headed home from Texas this morning, excited to not have to travel for a few weeks and just take things slower for the holidays. I always catch up on my podcasts while I travel, one that released this week that was really good was Jelly Roll on Joe Rogan.
For those of you that don't know, Jelly Roll is a pretty famous country singer. He was previously incarcerated and really turned his life when he got out of prison, overcame addiction, and became a famous singer. He also was over 550 pounds and has always struggled with his weight. He's also been very open about his previous addictions with drugs etc, and obviously that's transferred over into food.
Over the last 2 years Jelly Roll has lost over 300 lb!! In this podcast he really outlines how he started at over 500 lb to lose the weight, the steps that it took, and more importantly, the therapy and the healing that he has needed to do in order to address the real reason why he was eating.
He and Joe both use a lot of curse words so for some people that might be a reason not to listen to this podcast, and that's okay. But I do think though it's going to be a very helpful message for a lot of people, especially those who are morbidly obese and feeling like they have no hope. If you have someone in your life who has really struggled to ever get started with losing weight, maybe there's someone who feels like it's too late, I would highly recommend this podcast.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4JgacG8LtZclitPNhJ74Di?si=prY36uGETS-Mz8UkCV-pfQ&pi=mw_0zilMTFq40
Yesterday we surprised the kids and brought home a puppy!! They have been begging for one for years and we felt like the time was right to bring one home.
Meet Angus 🐕 He's a Golden Retriever/King Charles Cavalier Spaniel mix. He's 11 weeks old and currently weighs about 8 pounds, he should be around 35 pounds fully grown. I know it will be an adjustment for a while as he gets potty trained etc but we are so excited. 😂 Wish us luck! 🤪
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 Monday!! How was your weekend? Were you able to stay on track or are you needing a reset for this week? We stop have plenty of time left in the month to make some good progress.
Thankfully I am not traveling then next couple weeks so it's been nice to be in the groove with exercise. Hopefully you can come hang out on the Livestream tonight, I'll give you more details on that Carnivore coach who was stealing my pictures for his coaching promotion. 🙄(I shared that on IG yesterday when I found out about it). We can talk about anything else on your mind as well.
What is your non-negotiable for this week?
I decided to go back to Carnivore. Carnivores will not have to worry about Cyclspora. I was eating very few veggies anyway so might as well give them up.
