This afternoon I am feeling much like Neo did after becoming unplugged: Dizzy, weak, disoriented, nauseated and irritable. Why didn't anyone tell me being healthy was this miserable?
Sunday night I made the decision to be completely dairy-free. A week ago, I "left" the meat world. That was easy. As a coffee-with-cream lover, the transition off dairy was more complicated, but I found coconut milk (retail) and almond milk (homemade) that suitably covered my needs. I was set, so I thought.
Sadly, my decade of project management experience came up short in my planning when I failed to acknowledge that in leaving both dairy and meat products, I was also avoiding any "processed" foods which included sugar, sugar substitutes, preservatives and other atypical add-ins that are included in foods, and thus toxic.
Needless to say, by this afternoon when I started feeling a migraine coming on, along with a case of the afternoon Head Nods and a desire to curl up under my desk had I actually fit, I was concerned. Was I ill? Am I coming down with something?
In reality, I'm likely succumbing to the typical side affects of going natural, with detoxification causing physical symptoms. I wish I'd read THIS before I went "clean".
Note to self: Next time I do this, go on a wilderness retreat.
FG
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