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Gender	Female
Occupation	Retired schoolteacher
Location	Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Introduction	In my late 50s, I am on an exciting journey to health and wellbeing, based on a whole food vegan lifestyle. In April 2016 I was in hospital with sepsis, desperately ill and with little quality of life. On discharge, I made a commitment to make a fresh start and do all I can to make myself fully well. I became vegan and researched as much as I could about whole food plant based eating. Since then, I have lost 150lbs, no longer take any medication (from 14 different ones per day) and swim, walk and do yoga daily - before, I was confined to a wheelchair. I am passionate about cooking, spreading information about the benefits of plant based eating (NOT dieting or slimming clubs!), exercising and learning as much as possible about Ayurveda.
Interests	Vegan cooking and nutrition, Whole food diets, Ayurveda, Swimming, Yoga, Dogs, Mindfulness
Favorite movies	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Slumdog Millionaire, Love Actually and (though it's not a film) love love love Game of Thrones.
Favorite books	Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovitch, the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, all the Harry Potter novels, The Weirdstone of Brisingamon by Alan Garner, The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman