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Friday 26 August 2011

In Today's News

Hi everyone

Have you read the news today? On BBC Breakfast, Radio 4 and BBC Radio London they were talking about the rise in obesity and what the government are proposing to do about it? They mentioned the cost to the NHS for obesity related illness such as Diabetes, stroke, heart disease and certain cancers. I'm surprised no-one heard me shouting at the TV/radio or saw my emails to said programmes!!

It made my blood boil. What the government be doing to curb obesity? Do we want to live in a nanny state? Really. What we put in our mouths is down to us surely? OK so perhaps the retailers could help out here. They could go back to five and half days trading like we had in the 60s and 70s. For any young things reading this they'll wonder what on earth I'm talking about. Shops used to open from 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday and there was half day trading on Saturday. But would this really help? On it's own, I don't think so.

There is not one single thing that needs changing, but several things. We need to look at how we live our lives; we need to look at how we perceive ourselves within our family unit; we need to stop using food as a reward; we need to ask ourselves if we like who we are; we need to ask ourselves if we are "happy"; and we need to ask ourselves what food is giving us that the people around us don't seem able to give. That's just for starters.

Unless we change the way see ourselves, we will never succeed at losing weight and keeping it off. I feel so passionate about this and I know I sound like I'm on a soap box but it's precisely because I've been morbidly obese and I know what that feels like and how I was perceived by society that I want to help.

I once went to a pop concert with my kids and I sat down in my seat which was on the end of a row. The kids sat next to me and there were some unoccupied seats next to them. The guy sitting behind me shouted at me to "Move my f*****g fat a**e because he couldn't see and neither could his child beside him! I was so embarrassed, angry, hurt and humiliated and I refused to move. But stories like this happen every day to the 25% of the population who are morbidly obese.

There's a quote on my website which is from Abraham Lincoln which says "That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it is well". And do you know what, the best way to tackle our obesity crisis is to start now by believing in yourself and focussing on all the positive things you can do.
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