I refer to the Type O Guide every day, but Live Right 4 Your Type sits on the shelf with my other nutritional reference books. This morning I looked something up in the index, and as I was thumbing through, the headline on page 26 caught my eye, "Blood Type and Stress."

The fact that I quickly got back to feeling normal last week does not mean that my stress has gone away. The three things causing it will be around for a while, possibly forever. So I began re-reading about Type O and stress.

" Type Os require a lot more to knock them off kilter in the face of stress. However, once they are pushed to the point of dramatic response, it usually takes them longer to recover." That is ME - that is my life right now! I kept reading.

There was a lot of information about dopamine, adrenaline and nonadrenaline; then I came to this sentence on page 35, "This link may explain a curious circumstance that I've noticed over the years. Many Type Os crave either wheat or red meat. Wheat is one of the highest plant sources and red meat one of the highest animal sources of L-tyrosine, the building block of dopamine and the catecholamines."

I have been incredibly hungry ever since these stresses started. I tried to stay close to the recommended Type O guidelines, but by late afternoon I have been frantic. I thought it was blood sugar plummeting, and have been eating dried fruit and nuts. They gave me a feeling of fullness, but did not satisfy. I began drinking more fluids, but I was still hungry. My weight has bounced up and down 2-3 pounds, something it has not done since I started the BTD.

My body wants more meat. It doesn't want fruit, nuts, or water. For lunch today I fixed ground beef and ate as much as I wanted (with vegetables of course). I feel better this afternoon than I have in several days. I also bought some rhodiola and some lipoic acid (other LR4YT recommendations for Type O stress).

I'm wondering what other interesting things I've forgotten since I first read Live Right a year and a half ago. I think I'd better re-read the whole book.