Happy New Year, everybody! It’s officially 2011.
2010 was a great year for me. I hope it was a fantastic year for you, too. Life is short, after all, and we need to do what we can to make the best of it.
I’m a big believer in setting goals — because it is the goals and intentions I set that create the life that I am living. If you don’t set goals, nothing changes.
Life isn’t just great by chance. We need to set goals to get where we want to go.
For this reason, I love to start the new year with a list of goals. It’s very important to write down your goals and/or say them out loud to someone you love and trust.
In this post I’ll be doing both — writing them down and sharing them with you, my readers, whom I both love and trust.
I think that by making myself accountable to you all, I will be much more likely to stick to my resolutions and not give up! I promise to keep you posted on my progress.
2011: My Real Food Resolutions
1. Lose 25 pounds.
I never had a problem with my weight until I got pregnant. I was always slim, could eat whatever I wanted, and never gained weight.
Ever since Kate was born, I’ve had trouble losing this excess 25 pounds. Nearly 4 years later, I’m really sick of it. My goal is to lose 25 pounds by April Fool’s Day, 2011.
I actually already started on this goal a few weeks ago. I lost 5 pounds before the holidays started. And here’s my Christmas miracle — I kept it off! Truly amazing, since I was eating out all the time and eating tons of Christmas fudge.
I’m amazed by this, but I guess the biggest reason is I’ve just been eating slowly, doing my best not to overeat, and only eating when I’m really and truly hungry.
So, now I just have 20 pounds to go. Woo hoo!
2. Balance my hormones.
Since the baby was born, my hormones have been a little whacked. I started on a program to balance them a few months ago — but then I got off track.
I did stay off the coffee (yay!), am sleeping great, working less… but then I stopped taking my supplements.
So I’ve started back on the supplements and I am committed to staying on them. I would like to see real changes in my hormonal balance within 3 months time.
3. Complete the P90X Program.
P90X is an extreme fitness program. You work out for 1 to 1.5 hours a day, 6 days a week.
My husband and I started P90X 3 weeks ago. The first week we stuck to it, but the last 2 weeks we fell off the wagon. We didn’t blame ourselves because we were traveling for the holidays, and we also caught a cold.
So we decided to go easy on ourselves and pick it back up again starting Sunday January 2nd. (That’s tomorrow.) We’ll go through the end of March.
I won’t lie, P90X is not easy. But it’s fun and I actually enjoy it. I’m really looking forward to getting in shape!
4. Get pregnant.
I’m not sure when we’ll tackle this one but I want to get pregnant this year. I’m 42, so I need to get going.
I’ve been focusing on eating nutrient-dense fertility foods for the past year (salmon roe, liver, cod liver oil, grass-fed butter and cream, etc.) And after P90X, I’ll be in fabulous shape for the pregnancy!
5. Teach another online cooking class.
I really enjoyed teaching the Surf & Turf cooking class last fall. I’m looking forward to teaching another class — most likely in the spring.
I’ve been thinking it would be really fun to do a class on preparing grains. Everything from sprouting and grinding whole grains to soaking rice to sourdough bread and pizza dough to making corn tortillas and tamales from scratch. I’d like to include homemade sprouted flour crackers, sprouted flour pasta, chocolate chip cookies, and pie crust.
6. Help the Real Food Media bloggers reach their goals.
Last November at the Weston A. Price Foundation conference, we held a dinner for the Real Food Media bloggers. I asked everyone to set goals for the new year.
I am so blessed to be able to work with such an awesome group of people.
Since then, a few of us have decided to hold a monthly mastermind conference call to help support each other in meeting our goals. Mastermind groups can be really powerful — again, it’s about accountability.
I can’t wait to see what everyone else achieves this year. I know they can do it!
Share Your Real Food Resolutions for 2011
How about you? What are your real food resolutions for 2011?
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My big blog goal for the year is to simply develop it a lot more. Which really means taking more time to work through things and make them *good*.
Personal goals include graduating with my master’s degree, hopefully find a new job, make more gifts for people, and go to Egypt. I think that covers all the good stuff!
@ Soli
Wonderful goals! Especially Egypt and your Master’s degree!
I’d like to make a suggestion… you want to make your goals measurable. “Good” and “more developed” are hard to measure. Maybe you could come up with a measurable goal for your blog, i.e. increase your traffic by 50% or something like that.
PS: I just love your blog title, I Believe in Butter! Such a good play on I Don’t Believe It’s Not Butter!
xoxo
Ooops “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” LOL!
Two words: Meal…Plan! And you are so right about setting goals – need to set them in order for things to change the way you want them to! Hubby and I are working our way out of debt and the only way to do this is to set attainable and measurable goals (short and long-term)!
Ha, Ann Marie you sound like my boss on the goals. I want more readers, yes, but also higher quality of posts. Until my education is done I can only do so much with them, but I am doing what I can.
And thank you, it was a struggle originally coming up with a clever name.
My number one goal is to STOP EATING SUGAR! Seriously, I should know this by now. Every time I go off it, I feel twice as good and get sick less than half as often. And when I eat it again, I instantly feel awful. You’d think that would be enough to make me stop wanting it!
Also, to buy cod liver oil and hopefully coconut oil. And try soaking some grains and see how we tolerate them. (Right now my husband is regretfully grain-free due to IBS. But he’s longing for pizza in the worst way.)
One of my resolutions is to learn how to cook meat and liver so that I truly enjoy it…..was vegetarian for 14 years on a primarily whole foods diet, but I have adopted traditional foods over the past two years….while adopting all the full fat dairy has been a pleasure and delight, I have to tell you that my meat dishes are still only tolerable to me for the most part!
Soooo, taking your Surf N’ Turf course is definately on this year’s list of goals! I hope to find out that it is skills that I am lacking, rather than a taste for meat!
I’m with you on #s 1 and 2 – pregnancy really knocked me for a loop. As much as weight-related goals seem anethema to the holistic RF philosophy, targets must be SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound) and I’m calling weight a macro indicator of health, which is very relevant!
In addition, for food-related resolutions I’m going to make a chart to remind me that we will eat offal or roe once a week; (wild-caught) fish and shellfish twice a week; broth and fermented foods every day; and have one non-protein day per week. I also need to locate a SOLE source of meats and complete and implement our family calendar of seasonal events and feasting days.
I don’t blog but I do need to journal more (I haven’t set a frequency for that because it’s at 0 right now), and get past the mailbox and garbage cans and out into the world every day. And finally, the first thing to tackle is a language-competency certification for my residency here.
Good luck with your family plans; you’re very brave to put that up here for us to read. I’d love to put “baby #2″ on the list but we’re trying to adopt and that’s not something I can put a time limit on.
@Soli
I was just trying to point out that “good” is subjective and very hard to measure. It’s important to set measurable goals so you can really tell if you succeeded. What does it mean to you to have a “higher quality of posts”? Maybe that the posts get shared more on Facebook and Twitter? Or you get more comments? Just some ideas.
@ Sherry The way you prepare meat, especially liver and organ meats, really is critical. I look forward to having you in the class!
@ Lauren
SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound)
Yes! I just listened to Pat Flynn’s latest podcast in which he talks about setting SMART goals:
http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/spi-012-mind-hacks-physical-hacks-and-work-hacks-for-better-productivity-and-getting-things-done/
It’s a really good listen.
He is actually the one who inspired me to do P90X.
First, Your blog has been so incredibly useful in helping us make changes. Thank you so so much. I’m 41 and would like baby #2 also, so you’re a HUGE inspiration to me. I just wanted to mention Tim Ferris’ book The 4 Hour Body and also The Shwarzbein Principle. The latter talks about how overworking out can cause hormonal imbalances in the body, and the former talks about how little it really takes to develop lean muscle mass. Tim Ferris actually developed 38 pounds of muscle by working out for only four hours over the course of a month.
Losing weight is one of mine! I got interested in traditional foods about halfway through my pregnancy with baby #4, I’ve been implementing principles as I can, and I’m getting ready to start phase 1 of Eat Fat, Lose Fat. So lose weight, completely transition to TF eating, and read at least 3 books a month (I used to be a total bibliophile, now I’m lucky to get through 1 book a month!)
Thanks for publishing your goals! It’s really good to see other people’s goals–it helps me get inspired and motivated too! I would love to get pregnant too, but I doubt that’ll be happening for us! Paying off our adoption loan would be a close runner-up, though, cause that will put us on the path to baby #2! Fitness-wise, my husband and I started a bodyweight strength-training program by Mark Lauren on Christmas day. I don’t weigh myself, but I can feel my legs and arms tightening up, which is awesome. Here’s wishing us both success with our fitness goals!
I write down all my goals each year, and then review them at the end of the year. I actually did pretty well last year and changed some habits.
One of my goals for this year is to depend less on store/commercially prepared foods and make more at home.
Another is to move toward healthier grains, having just made my first purchase of sprouted grains, and making a recipe where I soaked the grains in buttermilk overnight first. Wow! It was delicious!
Seems like our goals are aligned! I could really use that class you’re thinking of offering!
Good Luck with those goals, Ann Marie! I’m with you on many of them (including PX 90! Have it in the house – need to figure it out). Can you share if you are following a diet plan? I feel so much better following a NT diet – but I also like having a plan (so that I can be accountable!). Are you following a plan? Happy New Year!
Awesome! Love the PX90 – I so want to do that too. I need something different this year in terms of exercise! Also love the pregnancy diet – I am on it too! Hope we both reach that goal in 2011!
Wow, after reading all of your goals for 2011…… those are some lofty goals, girlfriend. Good for you!! I will be interested in your progress.
LOVE your blog here, have learned so much.
My goal is to keep learning about healthy eating, walking 3 or 4 times a week and lose 10 pounds. Not as grand as your goals but I have to set mine where I can handle them.
Happy New Year and the best to you and to your goals!!
My two daughters and I are starting the GAPS in three weeks. My goal is to stay on it for at least 6 months (I know I won’t be able to keep it up with all the summer family events) and then ease into a traditional diet. Hopefully, some time in there, I’ll get pregnant with our third, but I know that I need to get in shape, fix up the ol’ digestive tract, and tweak the hormones. I’d love to hear more about your weight loss and hormone progress in the future, Ann Marie. Other people’s stories always inspire me! Good luck!
I, too, am in goal-setting-mode. I love the “smart” acronym for measuring goals!
Best of wishes with all of your goals! I love your blog and appreciate the time you invest in helping get such beneficial into out to us. Happy New Year!
One quick word about p90x … I’ve known several people who have done it (with varying degrees of success and enjoyment levels) but what strikes me is the time investment and everyone I’ve known that has started it hasn’t been able to keep up with it. And, I’m certainly not trying to poo-poo your goal but thought I’d mention an alternative if that becomes the challenge for you … I am finding that my husband and I are really getting motivated with HIT (High Intensity Training). I first heard about it from Dr. Ben somebody-or-another while poking around the internet a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, all of his internet info (free) has gone by the wayside in favor of books. But, that initial info was invaluable to me in helping to understand the value of this type of workout. More recently Dr. Mercola has been posting about a version of this and the hubs got on board with it. As 50-somethings (out of shape and sedentary) this has been a really good jumpstart that hasn’t been overwhelming or put us in traction with injury/soreness!! Just moving again has been motivating
I have a few:
1. Eat lots of fat
2. Eat way less fruit
3. perfect my bone broth talents
4. Blog on grass fed momma at least twice a week, goal is five days a week.
5. Focus on the good in my life and forget more about the not so great.
Love
deb
I blogged about my goals:
http://realfoodlittlerock.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-years-real-food-resolutions.html
Other real food in Little Rock writers will be blogging about their resolutions (on the same blog) this week as well.
I have so many goals for this coming year. I want to menu plan for 2 weeks at a time and grocery shop specifically for those 2 weeks. I want to commit to this the entire month of January. Hopefully by then it will have become a habit again. My baby is 7 months old now and I have not been consistent since she was born. I guess I can’t use her as an excuse anymore
Cut out sugar! I was doing great until the Holidays hit and all the baked goods have made me feel just awful.
Lose 30-40 pounds by the end of May when we go on vacation to Maui by rebounding for at least a half hour 5-7 days a week. Rebounding is amazing exercise! Have you looked in to it? It also stimulates the lymphatic system and helps the body to get rid of toxins. I am also thinking of getting pregnant late 2011 so I want to be as healthy as possible.
Finally order that yogurt starter that I’ve been wanting to forever and start making homemade yogurt.
Good luck with your goals and I wish you a happy pregnancy this year!
Hi there! I really enjoy reading your blog and thought I’d leave a comment to ring in the new year. Very worthwhile resolutions you’ve made! I’ve set a few general intentions for 2011 – to have more compassion for myself, listen to my intuition more, and spend more time doing the things I love (cooking + yoga). Here’s to a healthy and happy year filled with lots of real food!
-Nancy
I was reading your comments about “I can’t believe it’s not butter” and had to post this just for fun, from one of the episode of Vicar of Dibley
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MsbvGmLaU4
I was reading your comments about “I can’t believe it’s not butter” and had to post this just for fun, from one of the episodes of Vicar of Dibley
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MsbvGmLaU4
I read 180 degree health at your suggestion. From what they say about adrenal gland health, an extreme fitness program doesn’t sound like a good idea for someone with weak adrenals. It would be frustrating to lose muscle mass instead of building muscle… Just a thought.
@Diane
I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t think I was up to it. My adrenals are actually doing great these days – I think it’s been the past 3 years of eating traditional food plus the supplements I’ve been on (on again off again).
If you had asked me to do P90X a year or two ago, there is NO WAY I would have said yes. I was too tired. Now I feel great, have lots of energy, and it feels fun to exercise!
I think getting off coffee helped my adrenals a lot, too.
I just blogged about this, but in two separate posts. One for real food: http://kmillecam.blogspot.com/2011/01/real-food-resolutions.html And one for cleaning and meditation: http://kmillecam.blogspot.com/2011/01/meditation-drawing-cleaning-reading-or.html
K you are one of my inspirations! Keep going, girlfriend! I’m right behind you!
PS: I just checked and after one month of this, I have lost an inch and a half on my waist and and inch on my hips!
I lost 27 pounds by completely eliminating all sugar and refined grains and by doing only weight lifting as excercise. I have to be very careful with my adrenal glands, so i don’t tax them by doing strenuous aerobic exercise. I lost 1.5 lbs a week consistenly. I am now at my perfect goal weight and am very excited. My goals for 2011:
1. Get the whole house water filter system we keep talking about but never doing.
2. Stop drinking coffee, again
3. Eat more vegetables. I tend to over do the dairy because I LOVE it, and almost exclude all other foods. Really need some fiber here
4. Be more diligent about teaching my teenagers how this magical food appears on the table. They really need to learn how to cook traditionally. I don’t have to do everything myself. I don’t have to do everything myself. I don’t have to do everything myself….
Happy New Year Everyone!
First of all I just want to say YAY!! for a hack-free site!!! My main goal is to find balance without giving anything up. Talk about unrealistic! After welcoming my second child in September (thank you for your comment, BTW) I really questioned whether I could or **should** keep blogging. In the end I realized that I simply CAN’T STOP . . . I love it too much. So rather than cut back and slow down I am ramping up and loving it more than ever. On top of that I have the immeasurable joy of squeezing fat baby thighs everyday while watching my daughter twirl and play . . . life is great! Wishing you many blessings in the new year!
@Mommypotamus
I think you are a natural blogger. One of those people who is destined to be a great success at it. I don’t say that to everyone but I do see that in you. One of the reasons is that your blog is so authentic and open and real. That is one of the most important things in blogging, I think.
And yeah, the passion doesn’t hurt!
Go to my new blog and read the post I just wrote called How to Outsource Your Blog:
http://socialmediastrategyblog.com/how-to-outsource-your-blog/
Maybe you are not quite ready to outsource just yet but soon you will be.
Hugs to you!
PS: I love squeezing fat baby thighs too!
Thank you so much! I will try to play it cool now and pretend that I don’t think it is totally awesome that you even know who I am. Heading over right now to read . . . .
Hi Ann Marie – I’m glad you were able to get the site back up and running again! I’m sorry you’ve had so much trouble with it. Hopefully this is the end of it all!
Thanks so much, by the way, for asking us all talk about our goals in November. That was good for me because I tend to be a person who just does “what I do” and I avoid making many solid “plans” ahead of time. I’ve always been a person who doesn’t follow what others are doing, so this blog is perfect for my personality as I can be my own boss, which I love. I still have many things I want to do with my blog, but I know those will come over time. I’m spread very thin right now as I am working for Annika (which is great!) and focusing on that right now.
Some of your goals on are also mine. In addition to working on my blog, I also want to become pregnant again, and know I have to get going on this since I’ll be 42 this year. One thing that has slowed me down some is that I have seen several practitioners in the last year who have suggested different types of detox or protocols to remove heavy metals which would preclude pregnancy (I’m trying to balance my hormones too), which just frustrates Bruce more because he thinks we should be trying now instead of waiting longer…his point being that plenty of people who aren’t half as healthy as I am are getting pregnant, so I should be able to do it without having to keep detoxing. I am trying to get my hormones in order though, which is probably paramount if I want to become pregnant! Well, I’m going to do what’s necessary to have a healthy baby, no matter what, because that’s most important, I think.
When are you doing the conference call? I’m interested, let me know!
Happy new year to you and your family. I am looking forward to hearing about your progress! Hugs and best wishes!!
@Raine
You are making awesome progress on your blog!
I agree with Bruce on this — you’re never going to be perfectly clean of heavy metals, etc. Eating a very healthy diet like you do will go a long way toward having a very healthy baby. I say go for it! (But like we discussed on the phone, do get your iodine loading test done.)
I think it will be SO NEAT to be pregnant and having babies at the same time. I know Jenny of Nourished Kitchen is hoping to get pregnant this year, too. I think it’s great for us bloggers to have babies and blog about it — we can really walk the walk and help other new moms out there.
I’m working on getting Real Food Media back online and then I will set up a conference call. I will let you know!
Hugs to you, too!
Hi Everyone,
Sounds like people have some good health and soul-nourishing goals in line for 2011.
Forgive me for possibly stepping out of line, but I very sincerely urge those of you who would like to conceive this year to make sure your health and that of your spouse is as robust as possible for as long as possible before trying to make a new life. We’re all familiar with the adverse effects poor diets, hormonal imbalances, and stressful lifestyles can impart on our offspring. I would especially encourage you to make sure your gut flora is doing good things for you — helping you digest and absorb all the wonderful nutrients you make it a point to get from the traditional foods, and also keeping your immune systems strong. (If you’re unsure of what I’m talking about, think of the GAPS diet, and how important the parents’ health–both mother *and* father–is to conception, gestation, and nourishing a growing baby. In particular, make sure your digestion is going smoothly. We can eat the most nutrient-dense diet possible, but if digestion is less than efficient due to stress, inadequate sleep, gut flora imbalance, how much of those nutrients are we actually *absorbing?*)
You want to give your babies the best possible start in life, and set them up to have bright, clear skin, no allergies, easygoing temperaments, and to be able to get all they can out of their life experiences, with few (if any) learning difficulties and psychological complications.
There are already enough heartbreaking statistics where our children are concerned. Please, *please* focus on restoring and maintaining your own health so that your babies will be robust, healthy, well-adjusted, and engaged in the world around them.
I say this from a place of concern, and with good intentions only. Please take it as such. I’m ready for the human race to get back to the physical, psychological, and emotional health that was the norm in Weston Price’s travels. Let’s start with ourselves and our little ones. Like Sally Fallon says, this is “the natural selection of the wise.”
@ Raine: “One thing that has slowed me down some is that I have seen several practitioners in the last year who have suggested different types of detox or protocols to remove heavy metals which would preclude pregnancy (I’m trying to balance my hormones too), which just frustrates Bruce more because he thinks we should be trying now instead of waiting longer…his point being that plenty of people who aren’t half as healthy as I am are getting pregnant, so I should be able to do it without having to keep detoxing.”
Yes, but *how healthy* are the babies they’re having???
Cows loaded with hormones and antibiotics, with infected teats, can still produce milk, but is that the kind of milk you want to drink?
@Amy B.
I appreciate your concern.
Maybe you haven’t been reading our blogs very long.
Raine has been eating a super healthy diet of traditional foods for a number of years now. I also have been eating this way for over 3 years. Grass-fed beef and dairy, lots of seafood, only soaked grains, plenty of fermented foods, the whole 9 yards.
I’ve also been eating liver and shellfish at least once a week (often 3-5 times a week). And I eat copious amounts of the other sacred foods — grass-fed butter and cream, etc.
I don’t take antibiotics or the birth control, and have been taking probiotics for over 3 years now (in addition to the fermented foods).
In traditional cultures, the women prepared for pregnancy for a several months or up to a couple years. I can’t speak for Raine — only she knows when she is ready — but I know I am ready.
I’ve been reading your blog for a while, and I do know you’ve been nourishing yourself wonderfully for quite some time. (Your whole-hearted support for traditional foods and natural health is why I read your work in the first place!)
I haven’t made my way over to Raine’s yet. Truly, I didn’t mean to offend anyone. I quoted Raine’s post just as one example, but I guess I wanted to say what I said because I saw a few people here specifically mention balancing hormones, breaking sugar addictions, and even doing the GAPS diet, while looking to get pregnant this year. My point was only that it might make sense to hold off trying to conceive (even for just a few extra months) until those other things have firmed up a little.
None taken!
Absolutely love this site and Anne Marie! I am so excited to expand my knowledge on traditional foods and BED. I am thinking of enrolling in a masters program for TCM and hoping that is the best course to becoming a nutritional consultant for those with autism, chrones, cholitis and other immune disorders. I would appreciate any advice in regards to the best way to achieve that in regards to education/certifications. I have never felt so confident in a path as I do with healing people through food! I just want to make sure I take the appropriate steps to ensure a proper education while taking cost into account. My goald for 2011 are to begin my course work in this field and also stay completely away from sugar, diary, and gluten. I also am going to lose 15 lbs by May 24 which I know will br aided br the previous goal. Yay to new beginnings and enlightened paths!!
Anne Marie- I loved when you would put your daily menu your blog. Oh found it really helpful especially when you were trying to watch certain foods. Have you found s daily strategy that has helped with your weight loss?
AM,
So my goal is do it 2-3 times a week, and after that becomes normal, I want to up it to more like 4-5.
Although he uses regular flour, it’s soured a really long time….) I hope! Otherwise I’ve already blown it! (Tonight I had a real treat: Duck Rillette on Jack’s sourdough baguette.)
I think it’s VERY brave of you to trust us readers with your list. Very brave. I have sort of let this “goal-making tradition” slide over the last 10 years or so, feeling like my goals were too unrealistic anyway to ever achieve, so why bother… But maybe I’m ready to pick it up again.
We have a few of the same goals! So much fun to go thru this [virtually] together. I’m totally with you on 1, 2 & 4!!! While I’m not familiar with P90X (I don’t live in a cave, I’ve heard of it! I just don’t really know any details), I have recently started Yoga again – it’s been years! Yoga is a good pace for me
Add to the list that that I’d like to find a NaturoPathic (is that a real word?) practitioner to just get checked out by someone of that persuasion… I, too need to lose some weight after my last pregnancy (I carried twins as a surrogate almost 6 years ago now!) and I got back to normal right away, but over these 6 yrs, I feel like I have been piling on the weight! Feel like my hormones are definitely out of whack. Am pretty sure that my facial skin “condition” is hormonal because it started about a month after I went off birth control last summer & has not gotten better over the year & a half since then. My GP’s only solution is to take an antibiotic & just wipe it all out. Start clean. I gotta admit, it’s tempting. But if there’s a way to fix it naturally, I’d rather try that…
I don’t eat as “good” as you do (natto, liver, etc…) but generally I eat a pretty traditional diet, take FCLO, eat sprouted grains, pastured grass-fed meats, raw dairy, traditional fats, traditional oils, etc…. late last year I started slipping a bit, time just got tighter & tighter so I stopped baking my own sprouted bread, would stop taking my FCLO for a couple weeks at a time. But generally I feel like I do pretty well (or did, before I started slipping!)
I, too, would like to get pregnant this year. I’ve not admitted that out loud before (other than to JoeBacon (step of faith?) I’ve been off BC for over 1.5 yrs & nothing is happening, so I have a sneaking suspicion that there is something hormonal that needs fixed before it’ll happen, but we’re not trying hard in a very focused manner (yet) so I can’t be sure… another reason I’d like to find a Practitioner that can help me pinpoint things from a more traditional perspective.
My last big goal is to cut out (again) all refined grains & sweeteners. I don’t think that Jack’s sourdough bread counts, right?
Well, I’ve rambled enuf! Sheesh! Cheers to Cheeseslave, all of us here & our goals in 2011!
Thanks for your comments Ann Marie and Amy, lots to think about and much to prepare for! I think I will be ready sometime this summer after I get my hormones balanced out and the iodine loading test done.
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