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David WakehamStarting with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nutrition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nutrition</a>: Providing school meals would improve the overall diet quality of our kids, potentially reducing rates of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anaemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anaemia</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/obesity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#obesity</a>, and other health issues (Verguet et al., 2020).Assuming <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> continues to destroy public health care, this is desperately needed as it will reduce the load on the overworked medical staff, shorten waiting times and reverse the predictions of reduced lifetime expectancies of younger generations. 5/n

YowieIn 2012 I was 43, and my <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/weight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weight</a> was just shy of 130kg. I felt like crap, and couldn't keep up with my kid playing kiddy football. I decided to do something about it, started <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/C25K" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C25K</a> and a <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/diet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diet</a> , and by June 2014, I was down to 92kg and was <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/running" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#running</a> 5km three times a week and was well on my way to doing 10km.Then life threw a curveball and I couldn't <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/run" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#run</a> any more.And in 2019 I was back to 125kg and was diagnosed with <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/diabetesT2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diabetesT2</a>.And I started <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/C25K" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C25K</a> again, and was back to running 5km a couple of times a week, and was down to about 100kg.And life threw another curveball, and I couldn't run again. I didn't know it then but my <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/coeliac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coeliac</a> gene had activated due to the trauma that stopped me running, and I felt bloody awful. And yup, I ballooned back to ~120kg again. Several utterly useless doctors later "Lose weight and exercise more" "I can barely get off the couch, I am exhausted just walking from the waiting room to your office" "Here's an exercise program" a good <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/doctor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doctor</a> found severe <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/anaemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anaemia</a> as well as <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bloating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bloating</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/JointInflammation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JointInflammation</a> and asked why? and I was diagnosed as a <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/coeliac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coeliac</a> in November 2023.I stopped eating <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/gluten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gluten</a> and I slowly lost the feeling of being the walking dead and I started feeling alive again. Very slowly the weight dropped. And I rediscovered the joy of <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/moving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moving</a> my <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/body" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#body</a>. Today, I am <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/55yo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#55yo</a> , 97kg, and just did this on the <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/exercise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exercise</a> bike, which is 5 minutes longer than when I started a few weeks ago. I'm <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/purposefully" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purposefully</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/exercising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exercising</a> again.Will I <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/run" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#run</a> again? Probably not - the <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/knees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#knees</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/hips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hips</a> are not what they once were - but I've found that <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/dancing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dancing</a> to <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/livemusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#livemusic</a> is great <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/aerobic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aerobic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/exercise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exercise</a> and am happy to hop on the <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/StationaryBike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StationaryBike</a> to make sure I can cope with 2 hours of thrashing it out to <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IronMaiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IronMaiden</a> next month. A girl has to have <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/goals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#goals</a>. It's no longer about my <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/weight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weight</a> or how I <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/look" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#look</a>, it's because <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#life</a> is short, and I want to <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/live" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#live</a> it.

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