Clinical · 22 Jan 2026
Member since December 2024
Tinuke
Nigerian-British. Two food cultures, one appetite.
Their journal
40 entries, and Tinuke is still writing.
Nothing happened again
week 77settled energy 51 reply
Evening. The strange part is not having a project any more. I had not understood how much I was enjoying having one. Steady. Reduced to a maintenance dose. Same day, same…
Six labelled boxes
week 73organised energy 32 replies
Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great deal of smugness. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a…
Three cool bags and a thermometer
week 71organised energy 2
Evening. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Tested three cool bags against a…
Nothing to report
week 69fine energy 21 reply
Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it…
An unremarkable week
week 67fine energy 43 replies
Evening. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a…
Milestones
Conversations they started
Eleven weeks and I have stopped looking
The plateau
Five things I can actually eat on day two, and none of them are crackers
Nausea and eating
Grief at losing something I hated
When the noise goes quiet
My lipids went the wrong way and it took a while to understand why
Bloodwork buddies
Recent check-in answers
A difficult shift where I could not eat and could not sit down.
My daughter, who asked how I was and then actually waited for the answer.
Sorted the paperwork for the appeal into one folder in order. It took an evening and it has saved me weeks.
Honestly it has been a lonely fortnight. Reading this box is most of my social life at the moment.