It’s been a strange old week with the Governments plans to tackle obesity being published and I know like a lot of you it has stirred up a huge range of emotion, fear, sadness, anger ... frustration ... and caused lots of heated discussions! ⁣

I just wanted to come on here and share a few thoughts (more info on the petition will come tomorrow!) ⁣
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I was out this morning, having brunch and a walk. And two things struck me:⁣
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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👁" title="Auge" aria-label="Emoji: Auge"> I saw a girl, with an eating disorder looking distressed at a meal time, she was upset, hurting, and looked so alone. There was no glow in her face and I thought back to those days when I was so trapped in the illness.

Whilst public health campaigns don’t cause eating disorders, I would argue that they are so wrapped up in triggering people, causing pain without knowing ... ⁣
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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🍦" title="Softeis" aria-label="Emoji: Softeis">The second thing was a child probably 8 years old, laughing and eating an ice cream. Totally free.

How would calories on our menus impact our future generations? Would kids start to question what they are having? From my work in schools I have had numerous conversations with children from aged 7 upwards who ask me if they should stop eating something because a parent doesn’t

t have it? Imagine if kids got in their heads they couldn’t have something because of the calorific content?! ⁣
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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✏️" title="Bleistift" aria-label="Emoji: Bleistift">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✏️" title="Bleistift" aria-label="Emoji: Bleistift">I could write about this for days, but want to break things up to make it easier to think about and so I don’t bombard you all. ⁣