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2024 - A New Year - Goals

on January 03, 2024

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15 1/2 Months and Counting

Over 15 months have gone by since I had gastric bypass and hiatal hernia repair surgery at Vanderbilt Hospital. I have lost about 75 pounds. My weight has been between 141 and 145 for the past almost six months. Up 2-3 pounds, down 2-3 pounds. I obviously have found a new set point in my weight. My health - blood pressure, cholesterol, A1c, general levels of energy and optimism are greatly improved. What has really surprised me in some ways and not in others is how strong those lifelong habits of overeating are ingrained in my psyche. It has been both frustrating and fascinating to realize their power and influence on me. Even knowing how overeating and eating too quickly will result in immediate nausea, I STILL find myself automatically eating too much and too fast almost daily at times. My goodness! Those ingrained habits are hard to break. However I am slowly overcoming them.

Small Goals

I wanted a way to look at my goals as a "big picture" thing rather than getting hung up on whether or not I lose weight in my weekly weigh-ins. I thought a monthly tracker would be good. So I found this graphic that I liked. I love the colors and the soft and simple look of it. The first of each month, I will publish a post with my monthly and cumulative totals. I started WW on July 19, 2020. So the July total is for a week and 5 days. I want to give myself a year to lose the weight I need to lose. No rush. It's about making healthy eating and living a HABIT. The new Weight Watchers plan - Green, Blue, and Purple plans - seems so much easier than before. I'm on the Blue plan. WW matched me with the Green plan, but after just a couple days, I knew that Blue was a better fit and switched to it.

About Living Real with Carol

I will be 71 years old next month. Seventy-one! I have to say that time has gone into overdrive since 50. Suddenly I'm undeniably a senior citizen, and yet, I don't feel any different than I did 20 or 30 or 50 years ago. I'm still Carol. I'm still the young wife, mother, and teacher. I still have all those persons inside. Now I've added mother-in-law, grandmother, and retiree to the list - and so much more. Each person has so many facets - wears so many different hats at various times in life. We are so many different people throughout our lifetimes, and yet we never lose the people we were earlier This blog is about my 70s. I'm almost a year into my seventies. I breezed through my 30th, 40th, 50th, and even 60th birthdays. However, 70 hit me hard. I could pretend that 60 was still fairly young. I can't do that anymore. As I type this post, I'm sitting in a recliner with an orthopedic boot on my elevated left foot. Last week my foot started hurting. I h

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