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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Happy Sunday!! I have been traveling so much that I really have been leaning into rest this weekend. It's slightly killing me that my average step count on my Whoop is dropping, but trying to honor my body and just take a few days off.

Yesterday I just spent some time doing some stretches and hanging out with my family. Today is going to be more of the same.

Do you struggle with taking this slow and getting some the rest?

Happy Saturday everyone! Sorry I've been AWOL. Hubby has had the sinus crud. It's been horribly hot here. Work is getting really busy. We weaned calves and I'm on chore duty for the foreseeable future. Plus all the normal household chores and life.

Currently, I am fighting off the same sinus crud so today I slept until 9 a.m. and took a long nap this afternoon. Rest, lots of liquids and Vit C/Elderberry AND prayer, are helping a lot.

Yesterday we bought a new grill at Wm because ours wouldn't light. Then hubby took it apart and cleaned it out and well, what do you know... it Works! 😂 Amazing what some TLC will do. Anyway, we took the new one back.
The old one cooked our burgers just fine last night.

Today we stopped by to see the kids. DDil and I are figuring out all the ways to save on what they eat and what we eat and where to get the best prices. We looking into Azure Standard, Aldi, Costco/Sam's, Whole Foods and local producers. It's a lot of work, but we both agree it's so much ...