HonestOmnivore
I gained weight in my early thirties, moving from healthy to overweight, and this started the rollercoaster of weight gain and loss. In my early 40s I found out that I have the BRCAII gene mutation that makes me extreamly vulnerable to breast cancer, and started to try to lose the weight for good. This was 2009, and while I'm about twenty pounds down from my highest weight, I'm still no where near my healthy weight. I decided to go for the Roux en Y surgery because it has the best data for perminant weight loss. I am hoping to lose at least sixty pounds, but my ultimate goal is to get down to 120 which will require an 85 lb loss. More important than a number on the scale, I want to feel healthy and be able to make life choices based on anything except my weight!
I love photography, travel, animals, and reading. I am hoping to travel to a new place each year with my eye on a trip to India and Nepal this spring. I think that everything looks far better through the ears of a horse, so I plan to spend a least some of my time riding when I travel. I'm not at all athletic, never have been, but I want to be strong enough that I don't have to worry about the number of steps, elevation changes when I look at "moderate" hikes or nature walks.
My screen name comes from my interest in clean eating. I eat a mostly plant based diet, but try to source my meat from either my own hunting and farming abilities, or local farms where I know that the animals were cared for and had healthy outdoor lives. I limit my hunting to white tailed deer, here in Ohio, and generally shoot one or two deer a year. I raise chickens for both meat and eggs, basically raising laying birds, and butchering the males.
I am determined that a year from now, I'll be a healthy and active fifty year old!