Happy Thursday! Saw this great post yesterday from the amazing Ben Bikman. The best way to lower and maintain stable blood sugars is to focus on building muscles. Body weight exercises at home for a few mins a day is a great way to get started. If you are looking to lower your blood sugar numbers, one of the best things you can do is go for a 10-15 mins brisk walk after a meal. It doesn't have to be super fast, but make it a brisk pace to burn that glucose. And yes this is helpful even with eating carnivore.
As I am learning this year, working out doesn't have to mean hours at the gym daily. Doing these 10-15 min walks and body weight exercises a couple times a day can make a huge difference.
Are you doing this currently? What is your current daily movement?
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 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!! I am so excited to have a nice long weekend at home hanging out with the family. We mostly have no plans but I do need to film some YouTube videos. I am even more excited to eat at home for a few days, I am pretty used to eating out while I travel but nothing like a grilled steak from home!! Fun update here, Nathaniel got his braces off this week. He'll get them on again for another year in the future but he is finished with Phase 1.
What are your plans this weekend?
