Happy Thursday! I am flying home this afternoon after a busy week of work. I'll be home through the end of the month so we can do a Livestream on Monday evening! How is everyone feeling?
We are officially 2 weeks into Beast Mode!! Are you still on track? It's okay if things aren't perfect, the point of Beast Mode is to not let little setbacks get you off track for the whole month. We move forward, no matter what! 💪🏼 You can still lock in and make some great progress by the end of the month!
What's going well this month so far?
Where are you getting stuck?
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 ...
My first year on this journey was filled with lots of walking and podcasts. I geeked out on all the information I could. That was 8 years ago and the carnivore world was pretty small. One of the most influential and knowledgeable people I enjoyed listening to was Amber O'Hearn. She's an engineer brain and research scientist who brings so much unique information to the table. From processes in the body, to evolutionary function. All of the how's and whys. Last week she was on the Feldman Protocol podcast (Dave Feldman is the cholesterol guy) and it's a great one so I wanted to share. It's super long but worth the listen. They delve into all the carnivore stuff and focus a lot on how studies, in all directions, miss the mark and why. Give it a listen if you love getting all the science.
What are you listening to this week? Any recommendations?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2c4M6yvfWuyhlR6q3ovAqi?si=gpNVWQ0FSjq7_Q8n3dlFTQ
Happy May 13th! My week is busy but should be slowing down a bit. Mon-Wed is usually packed with after school activities. Meals have been brisket, eggs, bacon, and egg/sausage muffins. I love brisket. I made a sirloin steak in the air fryer and sadly the dog got it. It was Soo tough I couldn't eat it and it made me sad.
My summer just got incredibly busy due to my Mom purchasing a house. It's needed but now wow we need to do a lot. But as we have talked about I am not getting chased by a bear and I need to remember that. Tonight is night 2 in the sauna but I won't lift weights. I plan on stretching and recovery.
