It's amazing what you will do to your body.....
I gave up caffine 3 days ago.
This may not seem like a big deal, but it had become my daily ritual for the past several months. In the last 2 months it had become my crutch....how else do you get to work at 7:30am without slumping over your keyboard in a doze? And lately, one just wasn't enough. 2, maybe 3 would keep me going until mid afternoon when I could coast through the rest of the day.
It's incredible how your body comes to depend on it. It's been three days of exhaustion, sleep deprivation and dark circles under my eyes. You'd think without the caffine one would sleep better, but I have woken up at all hours of the night and been unable to get back to sleep. I've replaced my morning coffee with decaf (now what's the point of that?) to still give myself the warm tasty coffee sensation without the evil chemical with which I have this love-hate relationship. I can fool myself for about an hour, then I can feel my eyes start to ache, and the urge to sleep grows stronger. I've tried snacking a lot on grapes and other fruit mid-morning, which tends to help. Another drawback is the bloating and lack of sucess in the potty department. (to put it delicately) Caffine makes the body retain water, so why is it that stopping the caffine seems to make one swell up like a balloon? Apparently this will subside in a few days.....it's been 3.....how uncomfortable am I supposed to get before succumbing to my craving and having a jumbo hazelnut cream?
Ahh well. A nap this afternoon has kept me functioning long enough to stay up to type this......hopefully the end is in sight.
There is one plus... decaf does taste just as good!
This may not seem like a big deal, but it had become my daily ritual for the past several months. In the last 2 months it had become my crutch....how else do you get to work at 7:30am without slumping over your keyboard in a doze? And lately, one just wasn't enough. 2, maybe 3 would keep me going until mid afternoon when I could coast through the rest of the day.
It's incredible how your body comes to depend on it. It's been three days of exhaustion, sleep deprivation and dark circles under my eyes. You'd think without the caffine one would sleep better, but I have woken up at all hours of the night and been unable to get back to sleep. I've replaced my morning coffee with decaf (now what's the point of that?) to still give myself the warm tasty coffee sensation without the evil chemical with which I have this love-hate relationship. I can fool myself for about an hour, then I can feel my eyes start to ache, and the urge to sleep grows stronger. I've tried snacking a lot on grapes and other fruit mid-morning, which tends to help. Another drawback is the bloating and lack of sucess in the potty department. (to put it delicately) Caffine makes the body retain water, so why is it that stopping the caffine seems to make one swell up like a balloon? Apparently this will subside in a few days.....it's been 3.....how uncomfortable am I supposed to get before succumbing to my craving and having a jumbo hazelnut cream?
Ahh well. A nap this afternoon has kept me functioning long enough to stay up to type this......hopefully the end is in sight.
There is one plus... decaf does taste just as good!
posted by sandboxtoy at 10:41 PM
2 Comments:
hang in there hon! just don't eat chocolate or drink caffenated pop for awhile either...the caffenine in those could just be enough to bump you off the wagon!
I'm rooting for ya!
I've cut those out as well.....not forever of course, but just until I'm sufficiently weaned so that I can go without being dependant. (I couldn't give up CHOCOLATE!! Are you CRAZY?)
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