Member since March 2024

Hannah

Three months in and learning to ask for help before I am desperate.

Sheffield, UK · Works in a school office in Sheffield, two teenagers, PCOS diagnosed at nineteen after six years of being told to try harder.

Their journal

46 entries, and Hannah is still writing.

No project

Wednesday 11 Feb 2026week 100content energy 31 reply

Short one tonight. Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back specifically to say so, because nobody wrote this part down for me. Steady, on a…
Six labelled boxes

Tuesday 20 Jan 2026week 97organised energy 1

Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great deal of smugness. Two lines a day in a paper diary. Date, and one thing. That is…
Both bags, one go

Wednesday 31 Dec 2025week 94pleased energy 21 reply

Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I started, and I have now done it. Full shift on my feet and my knees did not stop me.…
Across the day

Monday 15 Dec 2025week 92steady energy 13 replies

Short one tonight. Got something with protein in before nine this morning, which meant the rest of the day did not fall apart at four. Was undereating without realising. The…
No news

Thursday 27 Nov 2025week 89flat energy 41 reply

A quiet week. Steady. That is the whole entry. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. No news. The dog is well, the…

All of Hannah’s journal

Milestones

Non-scale · 8 Apr 2025

Sat in the middle seat on a flight without thinking about it

Hannah — Cycle returned after six years. Complicated feelings, mostly about her twenties.

Clinical · 13 Jan 2025

Told to come back in a year

Hannah — First set of bloods that her GP described as unremarkable, which she had never heard about herself.

Conversations they started

Fertility clinic asked me to stop and I understood why
PCOS26 May 2026
I filled the space with walking and then with reading
When the noise goes quiet2 Sep 2025
Bone health, strength training and a loss phase
Menopause and GLP-127 Aug 2025
Vaginal symptoms nobody mentions in either conversation
Menopause and GLP-113 Nov 2024

Recent check-in answers

5 Jun 2026 — What are you doing about the dark or the heat?

Thirty-four degrees and the fridge is the only reliable thing in the house.

10 May 2026 — What have you got in the freezer?

Moved my hard training sessions away from the day after the injection. Obvious in hindsight.

5 May 2026 — What is your version of eight minutes and a chair?

Walked the dog twice, which is the whole exercise programme and always has been.

18 Apr 2026 — What did you have to explain today?

My son, who is fourteen and made me a cup of tea without being asked.

Buddy

ongoingTwo years, unbroken

Four lines on a Sunday, for two years

Hannah and Maryam send each other four lines every Sunday and have not missed one, including the week Maryam was in hospital for something unrelated.

Hannah and Maryam · since August 2025

Circles

PCOS
Cycles, insulin, fertility, and years of being dismissed.
When the noise goes quiet
What it is like when a lifelong background hum stops.
Parents
Feeding a household while your own appetite has changed.
UK and Ireland
NHS, HSE, waiting lists, and the local specifics.
Maintenance
Year two, year three, and the part nobody writes about.
Menopause and GLP-1
Three things at once, and untangling which is which.

What is not here

No follower count. No post count. No activity score. No badge. Nothing on this page can be used to rank Hannah against anybody, and that is a design decision rather than a missing feature.

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