Crystal's Epic Adventures

Are you OK Momma? Every year, millions of people make New Year’s resolutions, hoping to spark positive change. The recurring themes each year include a more active approach to health and fitness, improved finances, and learning new things for personal and professional development. Of the top 10 New Year's Resolutions that people make, the top two are:  Exercise More Lose Weight Good to see that I totally fit right in with the crowd when I was taking the time last year to search my soul and set up the C250 Adventure Challenges which launched January 1, 2020.  I wrote in a previous post about how I was just starting to get to know my Mom again, woman to woman when she passed away in 2007. Mothers are our most precious assets.  They have that gift of time that they can share with us and impart what they have learned - the good and bad.  This is what I feel I have missed out on the most with her.  Mom making her 55th Birthday wish - she was gone 3 months later ...

My whole life, food was what you got at the grocery store in nice, neat little packages. I never bothered to care about where it came from before that. When I came up with this challenge, it was because I felt that I had such a disconnect with where my food comes from. In a way, I feel that this mindset had contributed to my unhealthy relationship with food and a lifetime of overeating causing years of being overweight.  Even before the pandemic made things more critical, I have been trying to be more conscious of eating 'local' as much as possible since my big weight loss.   First it started with wondering, where does my produce come from? What does it mean to eat only that which is in season? What is grown locally and what must be imported thereby increasing its cost and carbon footprint? This has also spilled over into the world of meats - what does it mean for my local economy to support local farmers? Is it more nutritious to eat meat that has been free ranged, grass...