Mama Bear (without the sore head)

I started this blog in 2020, pre-pandemic. If I'm honest that was the start of my turnaround. I was heading down the wrong path at a hurtling speed. Depressed, overweight, inactive and numbing life out with food and booze. In the January I broke. I got signed off from work and was forced to start looking at making changes. When I read back over the past 5 years of sporadic blogs, it would be easy to see it as failure. How many Day 1's? How many times have I gone in the same circle? But it's not failure because I'm changing, I have changed. And it's largely down to the work I've been putting into myself over the past 5 years. I should say it's been a tough period. Not wanting to minimize any thing but I've lost my mum to a sudden and wholly avoidable case of pneumonia, lost both of my cats who have been with me most my adult life, got an autism diagnosis for my youngest with all the worry that brings, and had my own health issues with high blood pressure ...