Happy Tuesday! Thanks for hanging out on the Livestream last night!! It's such a busy time of year for a lot of people, most schools are ending or close to ending for the summer. Lots of graduations, end of year events, and vacations coming up.
My biggest tip in this busy season is to keep lots of quick/easy foods on hand to grab when you are on the go. Having a back up plan to your busy plans is the best way too keep yourself on track! We shared a lot of those options last night on the stream too.
Are you currently in a busy season?
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 Friday! Quick trip for me and headed home this afternoon after I teach another all day class. It's been a good trip, I was even able to hit up the hotel gym one of the days.
I saw this post on IG the other day and thought it was a great visual about the misunderstanding of large amounts of salt. Things like salt and red meat get demonized, but the majority of the reasons why they're bad is because people are eating them combined with high amounts of carbs and sugar. Meat alone and salt alone are extremely beneficial for us. But it's really hard to break people out of this mindset when it goes against everything they've been told their entire life.
Is this information about high salt something that's still hard for you to believe? Any other pieces of health advice in you had a hard time believing when you first heard of keto/Carnivore?
It was 112 yesterday and I'm still out there grilling. Never gets old. I had 2 NY strips which were yellow stickered at Sam's club. Just under 1.5 pounds. Less than I was eating previously. I was cutting some weight last month which resulted in slightly smaller portions and that seems to have continued even after I've stopped that "beast mode" time. Hopefully it helps me maintain better or even lose a few more pounds.
How has your portion size changed on your journey? Do you even pay attention to that? What's your favorite thing to grill?
Hello. Well, I was subscribed for a little bit and left, but have resubscribed. I am trying carnivore again. I'm not really sure what to say. I'm more the quiet type-- I linger in the background LOL I did attend the "Healing Humanity" movie on 8/11 in Tempe and was able to see Laura and Chris and Kerry in person. And what a great documentary! Definitely left inspired! Thank you for this space. I hope to utilize it more this time. :)
