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This is from Allyra's post on CFS and I thought it was useful to copy:

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR REDUCING STRESS

1. Thou shalt not be perfect or try to be.
2. Thou shalt not try to be all things to all people.
3. Thou shalt leave things undone that ought to be done.
4. Thou shalt not spread thyself too thin.
5. Thou shalt learn to say “NO”.
6. Thou shalt schedule time for thyself, and for thy supporting network.
7. Thou shalt switch off and do nothing regularly.
8. Thou shalt be boring, untidy, inelegant and unattractive at times.
9. Thou shalt not even feel guilty.
10. Thou shalt not be thine own worst enemy, but thine own best friend.

All of those are difficult for me. I'm not a perfectionist, but there's an inner perfectionist in me that keeps trying to get out, and beats me over the head for non-cooperation.

No, I don't have CFS, I seem to have a lot of parallel symptoms. Probably the effects of scleroderma, and/or Epstein-Barr.

Thinking of the Jetsons...

I think I'd like a Martin Jetpack. They're selling them now. Cool.

When I was a kid, I thought we'd all have things like this (only more compact and less noisy) long since. Assuming we hadn't wiped ourselves out in thermonuclear war first.

Genetics, food and healthy eating...

About a decade ago I read Eat Right 4 Your Type by Dr Peter D'Adamo. I had a friend who had followed the diet, lost weight, looked and felt good. Well: I happen to believe that any nutritious diet will work if you stick to it, but this looked worth looking at. I thought it sounded plausible - fits in with my own sense of how the world works.

At the time, some people told me D'Adamo was a fake and a charlatan, but as far as I can see the verdict is "unsubstantiated" rather than "wrong". I didn't follow the diet because I'd had restricted diets for so long I didn't want to, but it looked to me like a good one.

So now, a decade later, I'm following a detox diet set up by a nutritionalist (and liking it!), and avoiding certain foods because I must. I have terrible reactions to wheat products, especially bread - they make me choke. Acidic foods like orange juice, wine and coffee make my stomach or esophagus hurt. Funny how easy it is to pass up foods that feel like a knife to the gut - even if they're things whose flavour is delicious.

Talking about diets in general, and the paleolithic diet in particular, with allyra and abrakadabrah, moved me to go and looked at D'Adamo's book again. And to my surprise, in a brief browse, the food suggested for Type O people is pretty much exactly what I've evolved into eating on a trial and error basis.

Makes me feel a new respect for Dr D'Adamo. I think I want to read that book again.

Out of the Box...

Watched White Collar episode 1x14, "Out of the Box".

Oh my goodness. Now we have to wait for season 2. How long?

I had wondered whether this season would end with a resolution or a cliffhanger. ( It turned out to be... )