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? We definitely took it easy as a family this weekend and just rested when the puppy rested. I didn't walk either day but I think my body needed a couple days off after a very busy few weeks.

This upcoming week will be mostly normal for us, we have a friend coming for dinner tonight and I have an event I have to go to tomorrow evening. But mainly our family needs a bit of our new dog-life routine this week to catch up on things.

How are you feeling about goals for this week? I know so many people are on Spring Break, any vacation plans for you? What is your non-negotiable for this upcoming week?

Accountability post:

Monday weigh in: 276.6 (279.9 last week and 303.7 January 5)

Fasting glucose: 129

I am experimenting tomorrow morning with scrambling eggs before work. I want to try to get some protein numbers in to help from my under eating.

I had an appointment today with my work clinic. We pulled blood for an annual panel, checking D3, and a fasted insulin. I’m excited to see what my numbers look like.