A Year to Change: Conversations with women on choice, connections, and clarity in midlife

One should begin at the beginning, but I’m already well into the middle of my own story, so you’ll just have to figure it out as you come along. Or not, as you choose.

I’ll be “starting here, starting now.”

My Year To Change objectives focus around establishing and maintaining better heart-health habits. Important better habits such as:

1. The habit of not smoking.

2. The habit of daily exercise. (OK - let’s be real here - it will be the habit of mostly-daily exercise).

3. The habits of “Not Eating Stupid Every Day”. I have gained and lost probably 1,000 pounds in my lifetime, including (most recently) a loss of 40 lbs. on the Weight Watchers online program. Many of these 40 pounds have returned to their rightful home, since staying on the WW maintenance program was boring to me. So much counting of points. So much deprivation. So little actual reward after I had made my goal. None of this is WW fault; in fact, I tell friends who want to lose weight to “do” WW online. If you do it, it works; I simply stopped doing it.

There are a couple more, but it overwhelms me to think about them right now. So we’ll just begin with smoking. Not smoking.

Developing the habit of not smoking.

We’ll start tomorrow. I need to focus right at this moment on not going out and buying a pack of cigarettes.

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