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here's the deal. i
like love coffee. even when i felt absolutely and totally convicted that i should give it up, i prayed that God would send me a different answer. i've known for months that it had to go. i just kept putting it off. yesterday i said "enough!" and decided to cold turkey call it quits. at first i felt nothing and then around noon i got a dull headache which turned it to a full on "ouch" headache in the afternoon. i didn't take anything for it because i try not to use any medicine at all. i drank lots and lots of water and then ate my favorite comfort food:
chili. matilda helped me make it, which was the cutest thing ever. she loves to help do anything. she's so awesome. anyways, it was raining and i went to bed early for the second night in a row. don't judge me, it's really 9 even if the clock says 8. oh, 9 is still early you say?
the main reason i wanted to cut out coffee is that i think it triggers my anxiety. i've been struggling with anxiety for as long as i can remember. it's a part of my code, but when i drink coffee it makes me feel like my heart is coming out of my chest and on tuesday i felt like i was having a panic attack. hello. something had to change. i know that coffee can't be good for me if this is what the withdrawal feels like. i want to be able to eventually have a casual cup. i don't like being addicted to anything.
have you ever given up something you love because you knew it was bad for you?
i hope to not be so crabby and uncomfortable as the week goes on. wish.me.luck.
7 comments:
Good luck! I've given up coffee twice in the past five years because of digestive issues and it always SHOCKS me how nasty the withdrawal symptoms are. Stay strong!
I stopped drinking caffeine when I was pregnant with Vada (I guess that was like 3 years ago) and my anxiety is a lot better without it! Sometime I'm accidentally served caffeine and BOY OH BOY I know it after like 5 sips when my I'm about to have a heart/panic attack. Have you considered weaning yourself off and going half-caf and then decaf? Good luck!
I agree with you about not wanting to take anything for headaches, but I discovered the herb skullcap recently and it has worked so far for me. It worked for 3 different headaches, but then it didn't work when I had a head cold. Or maybe it was working, but it didn't make the throbbing go away completely. I just took one capsule each time for the headaches and it worked. HTH.
LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU I'M NOT LISTENING LALALALA
thanks for the tips ladies and kate... i just laughed out loud!
I know what you're going through, and it ain't pretty! I gave up all caffeine when I was ready to get pregnant. All I can say is I'm glad I got it out of my system before I became preggo-monster, because I don't think my marriage would have survived it! ;)
I promise you'll feel better today, and tomorrow you will be even better than your previous "normal"!
I most recently had to cut back on caffeine when I found I have a tendency to get fibrous cysts in my breasts (scary!). I'm still on one cup a day (there are *some* health benefits), but if I decide to get preggers again (which I hope to, soonish) I'm going to chuck it all out the window again!
Well . . . I write this as I drink my second cup. So I'm surely no authority. But I gave up coffee cold turkey for 5 days when I did the Master Cleanse, and I think that the giving up coffee part was even harder than the whole giving up food part. HA.
A few years ago, I weaned off my anxiety medication b/c I thought I didn't need it anymore. I stayed off it for a year. About 10 months into it, my anxiety started getting EXTREMELY BAD. Like major attacks every day, trouble breathing, couldn't drive across the bridge, etc. So I started doing 7 am yoga 3x a week and gave up coffee (well, I switched to decaf . . . I couldn't give up the ritual). Ultimately, my efforts didn't work. I realized that for me, anxiety medication was the most effective solution (and enabled me to live "normally"). At which point I resumed drinking regular coffee. :)
But for some people with less severe anxiety, I think it can be managed with yoga, breathing exercises, quitting coffee, etc. You're a brave woman--good luck!
p.s. What's up with our epic game of phone tag??
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