Journal
Stefan’s journal
Stepped back a dose and everything improved.
The limits of yoghurt
week 21steady energy 13 replies
Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. I have found five things I can get down when nothing…
Quiet
week 19flat energy 31 reply
Steady. That is the whole entry. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring…
Holding here
week 18steady energy 13 replies
I have been at the same step for five months and every clinician I meet seems mildly surprised. It is working. I am not moving. Asked to go back down and felt like a coward,…
Protein first
week 16steady energy 43 replies
Recording this for the record. I have found five things I can get down when nothing appeals and I have written them on the fridge. That list is the most useful thing I own.…
The bad fortnight
week 14rough energy 31 reply
Recording this for the record. The burping. Nobody mentions the burping. It is not in any leaflet and it is genuinely one of the odder experiences of my adult life. A…
A different shape
week 13rested energy 34 replies
Recording this for the record. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off. Two other people in circle have the same and none of us can find anything…
Nothing to report
week 10fine energy 21 reply
Recording this for the record. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring weeks.…
Sunday lunch
week 7warm energy 41 reply
Notes for the week. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who noticed, and a very kind waiter who boxed it up without saying a word. Starters as a main…
Standing in the kitchen
week 4wired energy 22 replies
Notes for the week. Nothing has happened yet, which nobody had warned me about. I think I expected to feel something immediately, and instead I made a cup of tea and put a…
Beginning, badly
week 1nervous energy 54 replies
Recording this for the record. Day one. I am writing this partly because somebody else's day-one entry is the reason I felt able to do it at all, and it seems only fair to…