@Clarice:
Thanks for taking the trouble to respond to my flailing with your 5 energy
What struck me immediately is the contrast between how you answered these questions for me vs. how I first attempt answered them for myself. People's brains really do work differently.
I don't want to give up polyamory because I don't want to end my relationships with my BF, who I am actually quite fond of even though he is not ideal, or my two other former polyamours who are now my project partner and my friend-who-will-always-be-a-little-bit-in-love-with-me. However, it is true that there is only so much time or energy that I can devote to the social sphere, so I can't go on endlessly picking up and semi-keeping lovers (sigh.)
I thought enrolling myself in computer boot-camp was simultaneously sensible and novel, because it is more like something a 23 year old man would do than a 53 year old woman.
I thought not teaching due to health concerns was uber-sensible and exactly in alignment with what a 5 would do, whereas what I would do is push myself to keep going with severe bronchitis/asthma to the point that I am gasping for breath after a long walk and climbing up a staircase in bitter cold air carrying a heavy suitcase and I am suddenly wrenched with severe pain, and wonder whether I will be found if I collapse. Luckily, I made it on to the train, and the BF I don't want to dump took very good care of me for the next week after he picked me up at the station.
OTOH, you did bring up eating less sugar which I didn't even put on the list, and that would undeniably be a sensible thing for me to do, no matter what flow chart I follow otherwise.