What you reveal at work : personal details for your profile on health and fitness

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Congrats. Trek for weight loss!
I agree Trek, a personal profile is just....content on a corporate intranet site...which will disappear soon or just be archived for the next few months.

You belong to a huge firm! I did belong to such a firm but I think it was over 175,000...a global firm with operations worldwide. (Canada only had 5,000 employees across the country.)
The employer who I work for now has 14,000 but not all of them are given work computers for their jobs, because some have jobs that don't require a work computer.

Yup, I agree I share if people want to hear it/ read it. I know when we have daily, informal intranet poll (on main intranet pg.), at most 600-800+ employees respond..which gives a sense of what people read and how they respond to stuff on our intranet. Yes, there have been informal questions asked about employee's preferred means of transportation to work, how they might spend a holiday, if they use twitter, FB, etc. at home. Our employees do genuinely cross a wide cross-section of income classes --from part-time lifeguards to executive managers who all live across the city.

The definition of wellness by the employer, is wholisitic --it also includes social relationships and mental health. If there are questions that touch in this area, I think I'll just have to answer vaguely...because life has been complicated for me in the past few years. But true, cycling, art and blogging have been activities that have helped me, for physical as well as psychological health as well as access to Internet to friends and family across Canada.

I am a relatively "new" face to this region of Canada. The difficult changes that have occurred in our city to become "better" in liveability have made our city a latecomer, compared to many other major cities. And the push tends to come from people who have lived in other cities or other countries. Long time Calgarians, who have never lived elsewhere, have found the rapid, physical changes to their city, hard to adjust.

One continues to amaze me is the chasm due to lack of knowledge between British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. Despite all the internet information on cycling infrastructure work, advocacy, programs and general urban design trends, lots of people in Vancouver and Calgary, are clueless of what Toronto has achieved over 15 years ago. Conversely I totally wince about people in Vancouver and Toronto wanting a surface level extension for light rail transit: forget THAT. Calgary's LRT gets slowed down by car traffic lights, etc. Just some examples where actually living and experiencing certain things in each city, makes a huge difference to make feasible/realistic comparisons over just reading about something in theory.

I'm tempted to provide a link to this blog post that I wrote many months ago that truly does encapsulate what anyone may want to consider in the area of exercise, health. But that's providing a link to my personal blog...which well. Hmmm, I got to think about that.

If any of you were in my shoes, would you provide that link to a personal blog post?