Can I do it?

 Hello everyone!  Well the couple of you that are still hanging around.  First of all thank you for reading after all this time!  I know.  I have no excuse for my absence, except discouragement.  I've still been humming around the homestead.  I can fill all that in time because I believe I'm ready to pick up the keyboard again.  

Starting more things than my blog today.  6 and a half years have past since my heart attack.  A lot has happened and, unfortunately, I've put the weight back on.  Not all of it, but a good portion of it.  I can lay many things at the feet of my weight gain, but I know I share some blame.  

Late last night, or should I say early morning, it dawned on me that I managed to hold my weight loss for 2 years after the death of my dad.  That was a feat because I was going often to my moms to help around the house and then help her move.  It wasn't until my heart attack in August of 2018 that my weight began to creep up.  Part of that was the medical advice I was given(SMH), and part was being in a panic that it would happen again.  Anyone that has experienced a heart attack will tell you it isn't something they're keen on repeating, and mine was mild!  Anyway back to my middle of the night epiphany; over the years I'd begun to doubt I could ever get my weight loss mojo back.  I questioned my approach to losing weight the last time, and tried and failed with other diets.  Once I had the realization last night that I had managed my weight loss easily for 2 years; it dawned on me.  My approach of real food, portion control, and move was right!  I remember how I was then.  I felt so good I was looking for activity!  In fact the day before my heart attack, I was at a friends house helping them put in a patio.  My job was to shovel sand into a wheel barrow to carry to where it was needed.  It was great!   I wanted to move.  My husband and I would go hiking ( on purpose), and pick very challenging trails.  9 times out of 10 I was outside finding something to occupy me.  When I couldn't do that I would exercise in the house.  

So armed with that epiphany, I'm setting off again.  I'm going back to what I know.  Real food, Portion control and Move!  I'm using "My fitness pal" now because sparkpeople is gone.  In the mean time, I'll be getting back to writing about all my frugal shenanigans.  Hopefully something I share will be helpful.