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Milestones

Things people can do now that they could not do, and changes a clinician measured. Every one of these links to the journal entry it came from. There is not a weight on this page and there never will be.

Clinical · 6 Nov 2025

Came off insulin, slowly, with their team

Ike — A1c down.

Clinical · 5 Nov 2025

CPAP mask off after a repeat sleep study

Ephraim — A1c down.

Non-scale · 5 Nov 2025

Walked up a hill they had written off

Gavin — Munro. First in nine years. The entry is mostly about the weather.

Clinical · 4 Nov 2025

Bone density baseline done, on their own request

Bruno — A1c down.

Non-scale · 24 Oct 2025

Carried a sleeping child upstairs

Bly — Cycled the Trans Pennine Trail to Penistone.

Clinical · 23 Oct 2025

Told to come back in a year

Nolan — A1c down.

Clinical · 23 Oct 2025

Liver enzymes back inside the range

Marit — Fine.

Clinical · 18 Oct 2025

Out of the prediabetes range

Abel — A1c down substantially.

Non-scale · 17 Oct 2025

Got through a wedding without dreading the meal

Kai — Hiked the Grouse Grind. Wrote about breathing.

Non-scale · 13 Oct 2025

Cycled somewhere that used to need a car

Rilla — Full three-week rotation without her back going.

Non-scale · 13 Oct 2025

Walked the coast path end to end in stages

Martha — Swam in the sea at Myrtleville. Seventy words, all of them good.

Non-scale · 8 Oct 2025

Two flights of stairs without stopping at the landing

Juniper — Split a winter's wood in a weekend.

Non-scale · 8 Oct 2025

Played football with both children for an hour

Maeve — Walked Knocknarea with her sister.

Non-scale · 6 Oct 2025

Both bags upstairs in one go

Gwyneth — Walked up to the Dare Valley park and back.

Non-scale · 5 Oct 2025

Back in the pool after eleven years

Gilly — Full clinic day without her back going.

Non-scale · 24 Sep 2025

Led a group walk from the front

Thea — Hiked Ulriken without stopping.

Non-scale · 24 Sep 2025

Played football with both children for an hour

Bel — Ran for a bus and was not wrecked by it.

Clinical · 20 Sep 2025

Came off insulin, slowly, with their team

Holly — Bone density baseline done, on her own request.

Non-scale · 19 Sep 2025

Walked the coast path end to end in stages

Calla — Walked the Southern Walkway.

Non-scale · 18 Sep 2025

Slept flat for a whole night

Pippa — Walked the coast path from Portreath to Porthtowan.

Non-scale · 16 Sep 2025

Two flights of stairs without stopping at the landing

Saoirse — Swam at Tramore.

Non-scale · 10 Sep 2025

Danced at a family wedding

Sadie — Cycled to Chorlton and back without stopping.

Non-scale · 10 Sep 2025

Played football with both children for an hour

Dot — Walked the coast path to Maenporth.

Clinical · 10 Sep 2025

Bone density baseline done, on their own request

Ammi — A1c down substantially.

By kind

Time served
7 of them
Restarts
5 of them
Clinical
57 of them
Non-scale
78 of them

Why there are no numbers here

There is no weight on this page, no percentage and no total of anything. A milestone here is something somebody can now do, or something a clinician measured and confirmed, or simply time served. That is a deliberate choice and we explain it at our design choices.

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