Health Food Home is a site about life after a hysterectomy. The weight that crept on and won't budge. The recovery nobody described properly. The hormones, the food, moving again, the mood, the sex, and the stretch where every test comes back fine and you don't feel fine.
Who I am
My name is Mallory Milne, I'm the owner and sole author of this site. I had my hysterectomy in 2020.
I kept my ovaries when my uterus came out, and for two years I felt fine. Then my ovaries began to fail early, and not one single person had even hinted that this could happen. What I know now, and what I wish I had known then, is in my story. Chasing down why is how this project started.
I'm not a doctor. I've had the surgery, I've done years of reading, and I've got no patience left for advice that ignores what a hysterectomy changes.
Who this is for
You, if any of this lands:
- You're booked for surgery, and the pamphlet answered about a tenth of what you want to know.
- You're six weeks out, technically cleared, and nobody explained what cleared is supposed to feel like.
- You kept your ovaries, and you were told that meant nothing would change hormonally.
- Your ovaries came out, and menopause started the day of the surgery.
- You've gained weight since the surgery, and none of the standard plans are touching it.
- You're two years out and something new has turned up that nobody warned you about.
- Somebody you love is in one of the above and you're trying to work out how to help.
What's here
Eight subjects, each with a home of its own:
- Weight Loss — why it changed, what works, what the research supports
- Recovery — the early weeks, and the things that show up at month six
- Hormones — ovaries kept and ovaries removed, treated as the different situations they are
- Diet & Food — everyday eating for the long haul
- Exercise — getting back to it without setting yourself back
- Mind & Mood — grief, mood swings, body image, and crying at nothing
- Sex & Intimacy — the questions you'd rather google than ask your doctor
- Before Surgery — getting ready, from someone who's done it
There are also free tools: a recovery timeline built around your own dates, a plan for your specific surgery, and a report you can print and take to an appointment.
How the research is handled
Every medical claim links to its source, with the year attached, so you can weigh a 2025 guideline against a 2011 study yourself. Credible guidance disagrees constantly on recovery numbers. Where it does, you get one range with both ends named, rather than an average no medical body recommends. Where the evidence is thin, you'll hear that from me.
The full version is on how this site handles medical claims, and what this site can't do for you is set out in the medical disclaimer.
What you won't find here
- Miracle anything.
- A number presented as the number when the guidance behind it disagrees with itself.
- Advice built backwards from a product.
- Before-and-after photos, or a body you're meant to be aiming at.
How to reach me
Email hello@healthyfoodhome.com. I read everything that comes in and answer what I can.
Things I'm glad to get:
- A correction. If something here is out of date, badly sourced, or flat wrong, I want to know. Corrections get made and noted on the page with the date.
- A question nobody has answered for you. It won't get a personal medical answer, but it might well become an article, and several already have.
- Something that helped you that isn't on this site yet.
Things I can't do: tell you whether your symptom is normal, whether your recovery is on track, or whether a treatment is right for you. I'm not qualified, I haven't examined you, and a stranger's guess is the last thing you need at that particular moment. For any of it, your surgeon's office or your GP is the call to make.
Last updated: August 21, 2026