GAPS Day 2...still scratching

Well, I was too cocky yesterday, obviously, because the uncontrollable itching came back early this morning. Yes, I said early! There I was at 1:00 am, scratching and thrashing. I finally resorted to the hot shower again, which gave me some relief, but oh! the wasted water! It's driving me crazy.

I finally fell asleep around 4 am, then woke to "I'm hungry" as usual from my dear son. So, I straggled out of bed, heated up my vegetable beef soup, and began the rounds.

Feed the dog

Raise the blinds

Peel the Legos off the bottom of my foot

Start breakfast

Check e-mail

and so on.

I'm ready for something new today. Let's see what the Intro will bring.

GAPS End of Day 1

It's the end of the first day, and by 5:00 pm, I was ravenous! I actually had to go to New Seasons and buy some meat, I was that hungry! I'm afraid to eat the duck now, because I think it might be the source of all my itching, so I had to have something, and fast! I bought a pound of beef stew meat, >blech< and boiled it up with some veggies. It was delicious! I have had a beef aversion for about 15 years, but boiled beef, I like. It doesn't smell so bad. Or could it have been that I'm super hungry? Oh well, at least I'm full now.

Also tried the ginger tea. Yummy! I loves my tea.

At around 7:00 pm, I felt a headache coming on all of a sudden. I rarely get headaches. Can the die-off be happening this quickly? I think it's just coincidence. We'll see how I make it through the night.

GAPS Intro, here I come!

For the past 2-3 days, I've been suffering from an allergic reaction to...what? Could it be duck, which I roasted and ate for the first time? Could it be the delicious cream I poured over some berries on Wednesday morning? Could it be the fabric I picked up months ago at a thrift store and finally began sewing into curtains? I may never know, but my body knows. My eyes are swollen and itchy, my skin is red, throbbing and flaming. And since I had been preparing to start the intro to the GAPS diet in a few weeks anyway, why not be miserably itchy and cleanse my gut at the same time? What a party this is going to be!

So, here I go.

Day 1: Had my glass of water when I got up, though room temperature in my house is pretty darn chilly. Drank a cup of warm chicken broth for breakfast. It was surprisingly good. Put the duck in the pot with some carrot and onion, then it occurred to me that it could be the source of the itching, so I'll freeze that for Will. At around 11:30 am, felt like having something else, so warmed up the chicken broth again. So far, everything feels fine, but I always knew Day 1 would be pretty easy. I'm cranky, but then that's pretty normal for me when the wind is whipping around the house and down the chimney and I can't get warm. Oh well, back to the couch, the blanket, and The Outlander.