Holiday Guests......

     Today is Memorial Day, and we spent a lovely weekend with my brother-in-law and his wife. Steve and Ken went shrimping and fishing for Lingcod, my all-time favorite fish. However, they did not catch any ling but brought back about thirty shrimp. The shrimp in Puget Sound are not very flavorful, so I don't want them to bring in any more of them. It's a lot of work for bland-tasting shrimp.  After having those fabulous gulf shrimp, it's hard to appreciate other types.  Our guests just left, so we plan to go to our workout place this afternoon and follow our regular schedule.  I've done my bay walk this morning, completing about a third of my daily workout. I get about 25 minutes of cardio during the trot-jog along the bay, so it works well.  We ate keto-friendly cuisine while our guests were here, including fajitas, tomato soup, quesadillas, chicken, and asparagus. The meals were delicious and satisfying.  Despite the extras like bread and ice cream, I maintained my diet while they were here. It's getting easier for me to maintain keto all the time.  On Thursday, I played golf with Steve, but I trotted instead of walking in between each hole. It didn't compare to my high-intensity interval training at my workout place, but it gave me almost fifty minutes of cardio.  Now that I know it works, I shall do this every time I golf.  We both got our wellness checkups on Monday and discovered that our cholesterol had decreased from the last time we had blood work. However, it's still above the highest threshold.  Rather than going on statins, Steve and I have decided to have a statin smoothie every single morning, and it's pretty good. I use hemp hearts, chia seeds, almond milk spinach, and drop some natural statins that I will delineate later. We had a smoothie before we headed out to the golf course.  I made a chicken marinara over stuffed cabbage, and we ate that when we got home.  It was a new recipe and worked out well. I've made some delicious new items this past week that fit my keto diet. One is a shrimp and cream sauce over mock grits.  Yum!  I've been thinking about friends whose partners are not doing very well and feel blessed that Steve and I are not facing any issues.  Most recently, I heard that one of my friend's husband has Parkinson's, and it's taking a terrible toll. Steve and I are both very blessed to be healthy so far. I hope we can both get our weight down and lower our cholesterol. We can both keep up with our workouts because our body parts are hanging in there and hopefully, that will continue.