What's on your Monday Menu?

French it up!

I've pet and ate the same animal with in 5 days.

I started several replies to this. I decided it was best to shut my big yap.

I've taken care of far too many farm animals to think they are cute.

After spending a few days at the Obesity Help conference here is what I am summing up from listening to various speakers and especially to Dr. Now.

Obesity is a complex disease. We come with our unique body with its own unique set of hormones. Your body responds to taste. to cravings, to hunger and to food in its own unique way. That is not the same for everyone. It is not the same every day.

Dr. Now says that he likes his carbs. He is easily carrying an extra thirty pounds and it shows. He did not talk about his weight, but he did talk about what to do to be healthy. He will be 78 years old in October.

In the long run it is more important to live a long healthy life, then to be a certain body size.

Here are the four things that really matter to be healthy:

1. Move your body - even when it hurts as as you get older it does hurt, but you must keep moving

2. Pay attention to cardiovascular health. Get your blood tests, control your cholesterol, and other blood levels. Avoid too much fat and sugars Eat three meals a day with no snacks. Dr Now says that there is no such thing as a healthy snack.

3. Get cancer screenings. Cancer kills you unless you catch it in time. If you catch it, you have a good chance of beating it. Get your mammograms, your colonoscopies, your skin checks.

4. Avoid accidents - be aware and careful of what you are doing.

Great advice Mary thank you for sharing. You look great in all the photos. Glad you all enjoyed yourselves.

Their photographers made everyone look great.

Nice summary, Mary. I agree, we are all unique, it's not the same for everyone. There is no one size fits all. I'm glad you enjoyed the conference.

Good morning all and Happy Monday,

It was a very nice weekend but I didn't get enough sleep.

Sleep has not been a model employee and needs improvement. I tried addressing Sleep about it's job performance. It seems to have been insulted by this. As a result, it's just giving me the bare minimum. Sleep needs to work on: Timeliness, Getting distracted and veering away from task, always pushing back against progress, and not finishing anything it starts. Sleep, this is your final warning.

QOTD- I struggle to stay motivated for weight loss. When I regain 5lbs, I struggle. I don't sound the alarms and immediately get back on track. Usually, it takes something for me to realize that my current behavior is a slippery slope. I'm looking forward to other responses here for ideas.

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B: pork belly hash.

L: mushroom soup and salad

D: Jerk shrimp

Matt, I am putting sleep in the 6 Box for performance as well.