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
Heading up north for some snowboarding with the kids after church today. Long drives are podcast time for me and sometimes even the kids. The other day I listened to a podcast with Ben Bikman, who you already know is a fav of mine, and the kids even got to listen for a while. He was talking a lot about ketones and the impact it has on the body. I've always considered exogenous ketones pointless on our type of diet but he made a pretty good case that there is benefits to doing so.
Have you tried exogenous ketones? Did they have an impact for you? I've linked the episode below if you want to have a listen.
Accountability
1. Iced coffee with 2 t cream
2. Pork belly
3. Flanken ribs
4 walks today, around lake, down to empty area where dogs could run around. Cooling off here tonight going down to 40s. We have a pretty nice campsite.
Today I woke up with a headache and honestly that messed my whole day up but tomorrow will be another day. Today I had a hamburger with butter, peanut butter, lots of pickles (I'm guessing I need salt because those things tasted so good!), and steak for dinner!
Boys had a friend over last night and honestly I felt so bored watching TV (Saturday is really the only evening I watch tv) we loaded up and went to the YMCA while my husband watched the Chicago Bears almost lose. My oldest actually said...we should do this more often I was so bored at home. I told him we could whenever they just need to tell me and we can go. I kept thinking when I was walking/running the indoor track...choose your hard--I get to choose my hard. I would love to run with my cross country kid but I will never be at his level probably but doesn't mean I can't still show him progress.
