Lansing City Council President A'Lynne Robinson (right) at council committee meeting with Council-Member Carol Wood.
Most political leaders don’t like to be that honest about themselves. But Lansing City Council President A’Lynne Robinson is not afraid to talk about being way overweight, what it was doing to her health and what she did about it. Her situation resulted in diabetes that had to be treated with medication.
She dealt with it by getting bariatric surgery which resulted in her consuming less food and moving substantially away from weighing more than 300 pounds to a weight today where she no longer takes diabetes meds.
Her openness is an encouragement to other people trying to deal with weight and health issues. I know she was for me as I tried to move from being an obese baby-boomer at-risk for nothing good. She saw my wife and I walk by her home and cheered us on.
I felt if A’Lynne could do it, then I could do it too.
For more, read this profile of her in the Greater Lansing Woman. She talks very openly.
She is a template for other politicians who are afraid to talk about their human sides and admit that they have struggles just like everybody else.
Lansing Council-member A'Lynne Robinson shares her story.
