I have gained weight and struggled to lose it repeatedly since it was in my mid twenties. In the last 40 years I've repeatedly got it down but then seem to drift back up to the low 90s.

In 2020 I spent the bulk of the year fighting my fourth bout with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma since 2010. When I was very sick, my weight dropped to 71kg but since finishing chemo and being back in remission my weight has crept up to the current 86kg. I need to work on this because the extra weight is impinging nastily on my diabetes.

6 April 2021. Aside from all that I am very grateful to be still alive and well enough to do some training and start playing my drums again. About this time last year I was told I had a 40% chance of surviving for 4 months, 20% of lasting for 6 months and after that, the odds got really nasty! The tumor was crushing my liver which had started to fail, so I became exceedingly ill. I owe a considerable debt of gratitude to the hematologists and nurses at Canberra Hospital.

BUT amazingly the chemo worked and PET and CAT scans in November found no cancer. I think my immune system is totally shot because of the sheer volume of chemo I've had, so I need to train at home because I think the gym is unsafe for me no matter how much hand washing goes on. Happily, you can get almost anything online now so I can avoid the shops.