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Part 2 More Spoon Theory

Part 2 More Spoon Theory

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Finding Your Baseline In this episode we continue our exploration of Spoon Theory. We have models for you to find your own baseline. In addition we suggest how Spoon Theory and setting a baseline applies to travel. Want to apply Spoon Theory to travel? It's all about conservation of energy. Einstein might agree. Living The Could Life contains affiliate links. They don’t cost you anything, but we may earn a small commission if you use them. We may have been hosted on a trip, excursion or other travel-related event. We may have received or experienced a product for review. Any opinion is our own. AS AN AMAZON ASSOCIATE I EARN FROM QUALIFYING PURCHASES AS AN AMAZON ASSOCIATE I EARN FROM QUALIFYING PURCHASES. Transcript Click Here for Transcript Theresa: Welcome back to Living the Good Life, the podcast where we talk about rebuilding a life after change, the kind of change that shifts your energy, your identity, your body, or your sense of what's possible. This is a short overview of what we discussed. We talked about several types of medical issues, especially that drain your energy. I feel relieved that I do not have something where my mitochondria doesn't convert ATP to energy or an autoimmune disease, although I have been suspected of having one, even though I have some of the symptoms and blood test results that might indicate that. But just to get you up to snuff, we basically talked about how difficult it is for some people to make it through the day. We use spoons as an example of a type of energy currency. Robert: And we talked about where that whole idea came from. It started in 2003 when an advocate for lupus decided she needed a practical way to demonstrate to a friend how her energy allotment worked every day. Theresa: And she used spoons because she was in a diner and that was an easy way to explain. So one thing that we thought about, and this applies to travel because we will be talking about how the spoon theory applies to your travel, is that, I don't want to say in the old days, but when we were both younger, people used to collect souvenir spoons every time they traveled. Robert: And when we took a trip, we were sometimes asked by people who were collectors to see if we could find a spoon from a particular location. Theresa: And we were thinking about that. And because we don't go to souvenir shops very often, we were wondering. So let us know if people do still collect spoons. People put them in wooden cases and you'd see them hanging on a wall in their homes. Robert: And they'd show off their new spoons that they had just gotten from a trip or from a friend. Theresa: And then we realized also when we were younger, when we had our kids, it was pretty common for somebody to buy a spoon for the newborns. Robert: Usually a silver spoon. Theresa: Usually a silver spoon. I think we may still have one. They tarnish because they're silver. Maybe that's something that looks into the future about spoons. Keep track of your energy. Robert: We will give a few examples of people and how they allocate their spoons each day. And it's kind of an interesting way that you decide how many spoons you're going to commit each day to certain activities. Theresa: And it's really beneficial to plan your spoon usage for traveling. Even if you don't have a chronic disease, it's still good because honestly travel can be very exhausting. And let's explicitly define the word baseline because it is vital. So in clinical terms, your baseline is the amount of activity you can engage in daily without triggering a flare-up or post-exertional crash. Finding your baseline is the prerequisite for figuring out exactly how many spoons you have to work with each day. Robert: Let's look at how someone actually calculates and allocates their spoons in real life. It isn't a static math problem because unlike a regular bank account, your initial balance changes every morning. Theresa: Oh that sounds like if you've invested in the stock market, right? So let's create a comparison to illustrate how wildly a spoon budget can fluctuate based on different body disruptions. We'll look at three distinct profiles. A healthy individual, someone with an auto-inflammatory condition like lupus, and someone with a profound neuro-immune disruption like ME-CFS. So we're going to compare the spoons that different people use. We have the healthy person, somebody with lupus or some kind of joint inflammation, and then somebody with the ME-CFS profile. And just to remind you that's basically mitochondrial failure. So the first thing you do in the morning is wake up and cry. Robert: Now the healthy individual has a healthy budget of lots and lots of spoons and it costs them zero spoons. They've had a nice restorative sleep. Theresa: The person with lupus might take two spoons because they have morning stiffness and joint pain. Robert: The individual with ME-CFS has had an unrefreshing sleep. They have severe PEM on waking and it's costing ...
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