There can’t be many women who celebrate their 75th birthday by zip-lining across a canyon, but I’ve got white water rafting, parachuting and skydiving on my bucket list for future birthdays. It is hard to believe I’ve become the family daredevil but, in the past six years, I’ve transformed my body and my outlook, and it’s given me a completely new zest for life. At 70, I weighed more than 14st, with high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, terrible insomnia, acid reflux, ankles so swollen my legs looked like stumps and painful arthritis in my knees. I had resigned myself to a downward spiral into old age and ending up in a nursing home like my mother.
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