Hi all... This is my first attempt to an online accountability to a 'regimen', as I tag it. I hate the idea of being on a diet. My past regimens have been eating habit corrections. I am an avid gardener and advocate of healthy locally grown foods. I enjoy cooking and trying new concoctions. I think I am an OK cook, but mostly my claim is that I could keep you alive.
I am an old soul with strong beliefs of fermenting foods (and drink) and I am a hardcore food-gatherer - hunting berries and other wild foods, such as ferns, greens, onions, apples, chanterelle mushrooms and so on.
I am a mother of four grown children. My husband and I are semi-retired. We did close up our business about 4 years ago, but now we are free to be the property managers personally of several rental properties in New England while we are newly established snowbirds.
Pardon my long introduction. I have been a journalist, writer, editor, administrator, mentor, but my favorite things are studying cultures, travelling and I dabble is creative projects of diverse art forms.
So my weight gain has been gradual over the last 15 years. I have been lo-active and more recently more active, as my husband and I have adopted activities in our retirement, like tennis and bike touring. I don't think I am too off the mark for being 'in-shape', but I am feeling my age, with creaky joints and stiffness and I know that a weight reduction - a kind of weight correction so to speak - would bring some of my ails into submission. My weightloss goal is ambitious, but I have no time frame and more so I want to become more conscientious of what I put in my body. I believe one of my biggest bad eating habits is snacking and mindlessly eating, even in the name of good healthy foods. I need to become more aware of portion size, balance (because I might eat a pound of green beans with garlic and oil as a meal) and with the RDI number, I can be more in tune with blindly eating.
I look forward