One mans's meat.

[luckykaa]

For the last year or two, I was having trouble getting to sleep roughly once every other week, but this seemed to be increasing. For the past month this hasn't been a problem.

It may be a coincidence, but that's also the time I ditched an aggressive happy-meatarian (i.e. free range or veggie) lifestyle. I was finding it way too much work to be sure meat was outdoor reared, so was essentially vegetarian. Partly because I found a veggie diet hard, but the possibility that the insomnia may have been diet related was a factor. I had been putting it down to stress, but I wasn't feeling all that stressed.

Would do some experimentation to work out what I might have been missing but that would involve periodically making myself miserable and sleep deprived and I'm actually enjoying this sensation of being able to sleep.

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[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

"First, make sure you're still getting all your vital nutrients."

Right. Pretty certain that was the problem. Meat seems to be adding something I was missing but don't know exactly what.

"Thirdly, try meditating."

I did find sitting in a dark room with my eyes closed until I got bored worked pretty well when I wasn't sleeping. Is that meditation? Seemed to work anyway.