Happy Friday! If you are on Instagram and saw my stories you'll know that we had an insane 24 hours yesterday. Long story short, as we were going to bed last night we realized we had a pipe burst inside the wall and our whole bedroom floor was flooded. It was the pipe behind the toilet in our master bathroom. We turned the water off overnight and thankfully we were able to get a plumber out in the morning to fix the leak. After all our recent issues with the other leak (in the same bathroom) and all the mold issues, we are getting a full remediation company out here to do some water removal and clean up. Unfortunately it's going to be a long process and take several weeks until we get our bedroom and our toilet back. 😭😭
Oh and another fun discovery, a nest of EMPTY reptile eggs was found behind the wall when they went to repair the leak. 🤢
I'll tell you what that even as long as I've been eating this way, there is nothing I wanted more yesterday than to just eat my stress and frustrations! I ended up skipping breakfast in all the chaos, and by lunch we still didn't have water so I just ordered Buffalo Wild Wings burger patties and wings for us all for lunch. I'll call that a win. How do you end up handling those stressful situations?
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 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?
Great news! Today was my sister’s first day trying carnivore. The doctor she saw today, (one of three) said carnivore was a great idea. No chemo and no bloodwork for two weeks.
I am praying her liver results improve during this time and that she heals.
I ate Turkey, sardines and ribeye today,
I am listening to this book and honestly it's good. I am surprised. I rented the book based solely on the title...talked about judging a book by it's cover. However, I honestly feel like my boys should listen to it. You can overcome anything if you just want it bad enough. Choose your hard. It's really motivating.
