Reincorporation sucks, y’all.

I’ve continued on the road through reincorporation, even though I’ve fully accepted at this point that this is how I’m probably going to have to eat for a long, long time and the whole process has felt pretty pointless because of that. However, because I have forced myself to continue through this journey, I’ve discovered a couple of pretty important things:

1. I think dairy is a migraine trigger, and

2. If I’m going to have a reaction to something, the most obvious sign is sleeplessness, particularly as whatever I’m having a reaction to makes its way out of my system.

(The sleeplessness could also be due to stress, which has been pretty high as of late, but I’m due for a big dip over the long term in about six months, give or take, if I play my cards right. Blog post for another time. In about a month, I’m also taking two full weeks off from work. Not trainings or conferences, though there is a short one in there; vacation. I’m so excited I could practically jump out of my own skin.)

Here I am at 12:50, wide awake. I’m on day one of the “cut whatever you were stuffing your face with back out of your diet” part of reincorporating feta, and it’s not going so great. Feta is going to be a no, just like eggs and cheddar cheese, but this has happened every.single.time I’ve had a reaction to something. I’ll have gross intestinal stuff happen for a day or two, I’ll probably get a migraine, and then I won’t be able to sleep, all over the course of two to three days, and then I’ll be back to normal. Whatever the fresh hell that means lately.

The thing that I’m grateful for, though, is that the sleeplessness usually comes at the end of the reaction, so I know I’ll probably feel better tomorrow.

What does that do for my ability to sleep right now? Literally nothing. But, I will go back to my awesome naturopath next week loaded with information, and that ain’t nothing.