Showing posts with label Cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cancer. Show all posts
Monday, 7 December 2020

Weighty Worries

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I've been trying to write this post for the past fortnight, and I keep starting and deleting.  I'm going round in circles in my mind...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Weekly Update Y2w43 & BodyGroove Workshop

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 My weight has come down since last week - yey!  It hasn't been smooth sailing though, and my weight got even higher before it started t...
Thursday, 10 September 2020

Cancer Care Packs from Cancer Support UK

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I mentioned a few weeks ago on my facebook page  about my parents and the fact that, rather than making up a cancer care pack for my mum (as...
Monday, 31 August 2020

Weekly Update Y2w35

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I missed last week's update - not just because it was a bad week for my weightloss.  I genuinely was really busy.  As I shared in my upd...
Saturday, 8 August 2020

Enjoying Life

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I've been missing in action for a few days.  10 days ago we decided last minute to drive all the way to Scotland to see my mum and husba...
Wednesday, 22 April 2020

Mental Health due to Coronavirus

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So far, I have been fine.  Honestly.  I'm quite happy sat at home pottering about.  I do miss seeing people face to face, and giving f...
Thursday, 22 August 2019

When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté

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A friend recommended this book to me, whose subtitle is "The Cost of Hidden Stress".  The book is about the link between body an...
Monday, 8 July 2019

Weekly Update No27

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No weight loss this week.  Quelle surprise. Sometimes I wonder if I should give up on pretending to lose weight, but I know that I need to i...
Monday, 29 April 2019

Weekly Update No17

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I've lost 1.5kilos since last Monday (over 3lbs) which is good going.  I'm not getting overly hungry having just a smoothie during...
Friday, 22 February 2019

Bare Reality - 100 Vaginas

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Laura Dodsworth is an artist whose work I have been following since she did her first book about women's breasts.  I first heard o...
Thursday, 14 February 2019

Stomach Pain

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Another sleepless night of stomach pain last night, means I'm feeling absolutely knackered. I get stomach pain every few months, and i...
Thursday, 17 January 2019

Ovarian Cancer Anniversary

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As I've mentioned before , four years ago, my mum was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer.  This is a huge anniversary.  At time of d...
Friday, 26 October 2018

I'm Back!

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With a new laptop, so can finally connect to the world again - phew! What's new with you? Seemingly not much has happened here, though...
Thursday, 4 October 2018

What's the deal with BRCA and Cancer?

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Everybody has the BRCA1 gene, and the BRCA2 gene.  The genes are tumour suppressors, whose job is to find tumour/cancer cells and kill them ...
Monday, 1 October 2018

Total Accountability

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I'm 'baring all' in the name of total accountability and my belief in 2B. I'm not skinny. I'm not pretty. I'm a fa...
Friday, 28 September 2018

A bit about Me

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I'm going to start with a confession - I'm not middle-aged.  At least, I hope I'm not, as I'm only 36yo.  But, it sounded go...