Monday morning...

[fajrdrako]

I'd set my alarm for 6:20 a.m., and so woke up thinking, "Why is my alarm going off in the middle of the night?" from a dream about something vaguely connected to George Lucas and Star Wars. I wonder why. I don't even like Star Wars.¹

I have a plan that for a week I will try following a rotation diet. I was reading Finally ... Food I Can Eat by Shirley Plant. Any author who dares to put an ellipsis in her title has my respect. A nurse at the General Hospital had been singing the praises of this book, and saying how following it made her feel better, have more energy, and lost weight. All of which would be good.

But... it isn't easy, despite urging in the Introduction that 'you too can do this'. I did it when I was on the anti-candidiasis diet, and it was appalling - but there was incentive. That alternative was worse. I have no doubt it would be good for me, but - breakfasts that take half an hour to bake, and start with grinding the flaxseed?

I could do it. I'd have to be more desperate than I am now. Maybe if I start slow, it won't seem to time-consuming. I could take the principle of CRON and add the suggested combining of foods. Which is actually non-combining: No proten with starch; I can do that. Fruit only on its own. I can do that, too. Meals may seem a little strange, but I'm going to try it for a week. I might even cut out wheat for a week, too, experimentally. See how it affects me.

Well, for six days. I'm not going to skip Thanksgiving for this.

[Added for reference.]

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¹ Except for Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan slash, of course.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous cats!

I seem to be able to nap indefinitely and still sleep all night, which gets very boring. I try to skip the nap if I can. Some days it's easier than others.

I have theories as to the cause: allergies, candidiasis, light sensitivity (like SAD). Or a combination?

I am not, I say firmly, going to take this lying down - !

[allyra.livejournal.com]

Combining my replies into one!

Yes, Blood Ties really deserved better. I keep hoping that they'll resurrect it.

I'm rather partial to my kitties, myself! The third one is in this icon, from a photo taken the day I got him. (He weighs at least 15 lbs now!)

If I could nap indefinitely and still sleep all night, I think I would find it rather harder to skip the nap! I spend much of my day wondering, in the back of my mind, if I'll be able to take a nap. Rather demoralizing.

Fight back!! Seize the day! And the night! I really hope the food plan helps you.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Sleeping too much and too deeply is one of the things I am trying to control by improving my diet and increasing my exercise. So far so good.

Hard to imagine that cute little guy in your icon transforming into 15 lbs!

[allyra.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that your new diet is helping! I'm interested to hear your full report on your experiment!

I was rather stunned when Lucky grew up to be so big. I was sure he was going to be a little guy, based on his 10-week weight. I guess whatever happened to him before I got him caused him to be severely malnourished. (If you're interested, you can read the entire saga of how I got the Lucky Kitten. (http://allyra.livejournal.com/297867.html)) He is now many pounds of pure muscle! (Another sign that he's part Bengal.) And his nickname has become "Monster", following the strange naming patterns I tend to use. In this case, Lucky --> Luckness --> Luckness Monster --> Monster (once he clearly WAS a monster!).

Eep, sorry - didn't mean to turn this comment into mostly kitty-babble. I'll stop now!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Luckness Monster! What a great name.

[allyra.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, thanks! I think it's quite clever, myself. Sadly, most people look at me blankly or with confusion when I use it.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Hi. I think your three little pals are gorgeous, and highly enjoyed your description of Lucky's name. I have four cats, although I intended to have three, because my big guy, Osiris, who has become Buddy ("Hey! Where's my buddy?"), needed company to keep him young and active, so I brought home two young sisters, whom I named Mercury and Quicksilver because they were so quick and alert and totally alike even though very different also... then the tiny grey tiger showed up on my porch, crying, and when we got him into the house, he about killed the other three with love, and from that tiny size has now grown to over fifteen pounds -- all of it gentle and affectionate. His name is Fog. From the Carl Sandberg poem. And his name is mostly the intent of this rather long post [g]. Cheerio....

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I had planned for years to name my budgies - all my birds - after Shakespeare characters. Which is why my first bird was Tony, for Mark Antony. Somehow the budgies had ideas of their own and instead I've named them all after X-Men. That works too.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

When I was young, we named our pet cats after celestial objects: Sunspot had kittens, one was Star, one was Comet, then Saturn because he had stripes (rings), and then Mercury, Orion, Eclipse... it became fun. It all ended with a litter of three who became Tom, Becky, and Huck. Hee.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Naming pets is such fun.

And then I start to think that I see attributes of the characters in the birds.

Though Logan isn't particularly tough.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think people are probably confused because of the unexpectedness of it - which is why it's so clever.