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

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So congratulations on the recognition of your cycling. Use the force wisely

Star Trek advice is good, Trek. I never thought about possibly causing hidden resentment/envy for anyone to be profiled. Simply because I don't view myself as a woman that others notice at all.

It is SO easy to judge a person by the exterior and not know the road the person they have walked/are walking/hidden struggles related to life's challenges.

So easy to look at person (like me) and assume it's their good, non-fat genes, that they are lucky. No, I was lucky to have been raised by low-income parents who actively made sure we ate healthy. I chose to adopt some of those healthy food choices...hopefully I'll stick to my choices for life.

So easy to judge a person (like myself) that they live in walkable, cycleable neighbourhood because they have choice/afford it. My response to misperceptions: You have no idea: I was raised in a 1 bedroom apartment that swelled up to 5 children before my poor (literally, we didn't have much money) parents scraped savings to buy their first (ramshackle) 3-bedroom house that had to be close to transit because we couldn't afford a car. This was not in China, this was in southern Ontario. That's why being car-free is not such a huge deal-breaker for me..because I started off in life that way. I do know what it means to live under socio-economic duress and how easy it is, if one is not vigilant, to become unhealthy.

Anyway, I don't plan to rant on in my profile about that.