It is recovering from a virus and doing so slowly, and I am trying to let it.
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Friday 30 January 2026
You do not have to have handled it well. Most of us do not. — asked by Jonah
It is recovering from a virus and doing so slowly, and I am trying to let it.
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Stopped weighing myself in November and I have not once regretted it.
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Viv Two flights of stairs is two flights of stairs. Take it.
Hard question. I liked my body before as well, actually, and I am tired of the assumption that I did not.
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I got dressed without a running commentary. First time in months.
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Strangers are being different with me and I hate it, and that is my honest answer.
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Dara That comment would have stayed with me too.
My back held for a whole shift, which is the only thing I ask of it.
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Strangers are being different with me and I hate it, and that is my honest answer.
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Somebody said I looked well and I could not work out where to put it, so I said thank you and changed the subject.
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I noticed I had gone a whole day without checking anything in a reflective surface.
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It swam. In February. In the sea. I did not think it had that in it.
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It carried the shopping up two flights. That is what I have got today.
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Bryn M Sounds like a good GP. Hold onto them.
My back held for a whole shift, which is the only thing I ask of it.
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Neutral. Genuinely neutral. It is a body, it is doing its job, I did not think about it much.
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Prue I did exactly the same and felt awful about it. You have done nothing wrong.
I noticed I had gone a whole day without checking anything in a reflective surface.
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