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The start of my day is a brisk bike ride
at the front of my small bike, but the pink
(downhill luckily) to the train station at Brompton manages it and off I go.
6:20am. Whilst this is a good way to I am often asked how I manage
‘wake up’ in the morning, it can be cycling in London where taxis have a
said with absolute resolution that on
mind of their own and the large double-
a winter day at 2oC, I would much
decker buses can make even a confi-
rather be in my nice cosy bed!
dent cyclist quiver in their trainers – and
So on to the train I go with my pink
the answer is simple. To me there is
fold up Brompton Bike – an absolute
nothing better than weaving in and out
must-have for a commuter cycling
of traffic on a bike and knowing that you
around London on a daily basis. The train
will arrive at your destination at the time
ride is a pleasant hour and 20 minutes
that you thought you would arrive rather
to Clapham Junction with only one
than it being dictated by road works
change on the way – at which point I
and public transport. Yes, you do have
warm myself up with a nice hot choco-
to be careful, but with a bit of common
late and have a read of the free news-
sense and awareness, it can be a way to
paper – another must-have for commut-
switch off and unwind on a stressful day,
ing. On a nice day, I get off a stop early
or simply feel the benefits of physical
(a tip we are always telling our patients,
activity. I no longer have to pay to go to
but how many of us actually do that
the gym. I have found a way to make
ourselves?) and cycle from East Croydon
physical activity fit into my daily life and I
to Clapham Junction. This only takes 40
could not recommend it more highly.
tion and collecting the right information
minutes and I arrive feeling exhilarated
for the review of the service which is due
and ready to start the day.
“If you are able to cycle in your
to be conducted during the month.
I arrive at work at St Johns Therapy
job, I would highly
After finishing work for the day at
Centre in NHS Wandsworth. Here I work
recommend it. It keeps you fit,
4:30pm, I get onto the train for an hour’s
for the Weight Management Project
journey back to East Sussex. A good
which aims to reduce waiting times for
relaxes and de-stresses you and
book is in order to relax with and let your-
patients seeking weight management benefits the environment
self unwind. I used to find I didn’t have
advice by training ‘Healthy Lifestyle
(and your purse!).”
any time to read, but being on a train
Advisors’ to teach weight management
where you have to sit down (if there’s a
in GP practices. There are currently 28 So, after running Shape Up, I go to visit
seat) and do nothing, means that there
GP practices signed up for this scheme one of the GP practices that the Weight
is a golden opportunity to do something
across Wandsworth Borough, with 34 Management Project is working with. I
just for you.
Healthy Lifestyle Advisors running clinics talk to the doctors and nurses about the
When I arrive back at the station in
for two hours per week. I also run two services available in the borough and
East Sussex, a 1.5 mile long hill awaits me.
‘Shape Up’ courses which is a weight how they can refer patients to them. This
Yes, there are times when it is last thing
management programme set up by the is a very interesting part of my day, as I
I want to do, but once I get going, it is
charity Weight Concern. It’s a brilliant often miss the MDT aspect of working in
a great way to finish my day. If you are
course to teach and to attend. a hospital and this allows me to interact
able to cycle in your job, I would highly
and share information with other health- recommend it. It keeps you fit, relaxes
Pedal power care professionals. The GP practices and de-stresses you and benefits the en-
Once in the office I check emails can be anywhere in the borough, so on vironment (and your purse!). Many NHS
(always so many) and get my r
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ready for the day. My first stop is the cycle ride. Luckily London isn’t too hilly, for cycling and at NHS Wandsworth,
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oup run in Tooting. This unlike my home town in East Sussex. mile-for-mile it almost works out the
involves a four-mile bike ride with a bike After meeting with the GPs, I try to visit same as petrol allowance. There is also
bag loaded with weighing scales, Shape
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Up manuals, pedometers, tape mea- to whom I have been allocated. Here To Work, which helps fund a bike, safety
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and fit all of the resources into the bag patients, giving out the correct informa- is no excuse!
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