Yes basically 1 spoon represents one unit of energy (imaginary), you may have handfull of spoons, and as your day goes by and with every activity, you use your spoons up, and then you end up without spoons to go any further. In my case, if I take a shower, I have to put my hair up in rollers, clean the bathroom etc. My energy is spent up, and I won't be cooking dinner because the pain intensifies depending on how much I get done. Take care and use your "spoons" wisely.

Simple form... If you were only allowed five spoons a day... these spoons meaning 5 things your body would have energy for... what would u use the spoons for? it can be as small as letting the dog outside to taking a shower...to go to the store... so how i use this theory myself? If i know I am going Christmas shopping today it will take all my spoons to get this done! and thats without a shower and drying my hair and doing makeup....

That's a good idea Kim, to have a visual. Could even write out different tasks fold them up put them in a jar and pick out say five just like the spoons

I was taught using marbles. It was hard for me to grasp, so I literally got a jar with 20 marbles in. I then took out the marbles it felt like it took to do something. It gave me a visual, and helped me see that sometimes I thought I'd have marbles left to do more, but had no personal resources to get me through. It's important to remember that we all have limited resources, though when we were healthy we had a lot more. Maybe a hundred marbles rather than 20.

Thanks Christy, I think I was always questioning but what if? Like what if I had more to do? But you've just said yourself the shopping would take it all up without the getting ready, I guess it's almost like putting your body into debt with tomorrow's spoons, right? You're gonna suffer for it the next day.