Hey everyone! It’s been a while since I blogged but it’s been a very busy few weeks so I thought I’d come in and give you an update about what I’ve been doing, updates on various PCOS related things and what I plan to be writing about over the next few weeks. Things are looking…
One of the nicest things about working from home is that I’ve been able to take time to study. I love to learn and I’ve been having such a great time exercising my brain with the tutoring lessons that I figured it would be nice to take some courses myself. I discovered Future Learn through…
This last month has been kind of a rollercoaster ride in terms of life events. The business launched and while it’s not even approaching enough to live on yet, it is doing okay and I’m still very much enjoying making things. I’ve also taken up a side line of tutoring, which has been great. I’m…
I haven’t updated for a while, not because I’ve given up being open about what’s happening, but for more physical reasons, which I’ll explain in a moment. However, momentous and terrifying and exciting changes are happening and I couldn’t not post, so however long this takes to type (3 days), I’ll get it out there…
One of my favourite things about Christmas food is cranberry sauce. I love the full, tart, rich, slightly bitter and fruity flavour of it and I’ve never been able to understand why people buy it premade because it’s so easy to make at home and so much nicer than the shop bought stuff. I also…
It’s Sunday afternoon as I write this, sitting on the sofa in my pyjamas and swaddled in a fleece blanket, watching the Christmas lights twinkling and trying not to go out of my mind with boredom and frustration. Tomorrow will be the start of my third week at home and I’m right smack in the…
So it’s day 5 since I called in and in all honesty, not much has changed. The tremor in my hands has almost completely subsided, although it’s worse in the evening still, when I’ve been cooking or trying to focus on something for longer than a few minutes at a time. The dizziness is the…
It’s day 3 of being at home and I’m still learning the extent of the damage I’ve done to myself and also the magnitude of my misconceptions. I really thought that I would notice immediate differences and the truth is that there are a few things that have improved over the last 2 days. I’d…
During an emotionally charged discussion about my health recently, I blurted out “but I’m one of the strongest women I know”. It wasn’t an idle boast. If I’ve learned anything from the last 7 years, it’s that there’s not much I can’t bounce back from with my trademark goofy smile and a cuddle, and we’ve…
One of the things I see quite often in the PCOS community is a feeling of being alone. We often check in with each other asking if this or that or the next thing is normal. It’s an illness that’s so belittled by the wider medical community at large that often the sometimes overwhelming and…
I’m sure you’ll have seen all the millions of “unboxing” videos flooding the interwebs. Make up, clothes…you name it, someone is taking it out of a box live on camera. I hope I’m not alone in thinking the trend is a little odd. Nevertheless I will attempt it, purely for the love of my fellow…
I thought long and hard about writing this post because the truth of it is that I don’t like to admit failure. I don’t like to admit that I’m limited. I don’t like to admit a great number of things about myself that I perceive as flaws. I had grand plans for the rest of…
PCOS. . . . a grouping of seemingly innocuous letters, downright innocent on their own and unimportant. Yet, the condition that they stand for and the impact it had on my self-esteem, happiness and health was anything but innocuous, anything but slight. It was only after years of misunderstandings, pain, the confidence of a sea…
A lot of our talk about the PCOS diet is about things to leave out and I’m afraid that’s really only half the picture. To really get the best out of your diet, there are a lot of anti-inflammatory things that you should be including and I’ll try and talk about a specific anti-inflammatory diet…
In case you haven’t noticed by now, I go through a lot of phases with my food lol. After my Middle Eastern phase I got onto an Oriental/Far Eastern phase which has involved a lot of Chinese, Japanese and Asian food. My favourite homemade Oriental dinner is a prawn laksa curry bowl. Laksa is a lime…
Rivka and Ivory 