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I have been relatively caffeine-free for a few days. I don't feel miserable as I normally have when I go cold turkey. What's interesting to me, though, is just how exhausted I am these days without the artificial prop. I've been running on a sleep deficit for a long time, and now I'm feeling the full weight of it. By 9:00 PM, I'm yawning up a storm.
I've also cut back severely on the soda. I drank nothing but water at work and only had one Diet Coke (Caffeine-free) with dinner. Normally, I'll have 5 diet sodas over the course of the day. My allergy sensitivity is going way up, so it seems a good idea to try and minimize the amount of artifical junk I put in my body. It's a scary thing when you start becoming allergic/sensitive to products you have used for a long time. My face cream made my skin turn red and swollen. This weekend, my shampoo and conditioner irritated my scalp so badly that the skin sloughed off in fairly large chunks. (Go figure, my actual hair is starting to make a recovery and has regained some gleam and bounce, but my scalp is one big scab.) So it's back to baby shampoo for me! Also, Mike and I like Wintergreen Lifesavers, we have for years, but having a few made the inside of my mouth unbearably itchy.
I've also cut back severely on the soda. I drank nothing but water at work and only had one Diet Coke (Caffeine-free) with dinner. Normally, I'll have 5 diet sodas over the course of the day. My allergy sensitivity is going way up, so it seems a good idea to try and minimize the amount of artifical junk I put in my body. It's a scary thing when you start becoming allergic/sensitive to products you have used for a long time. My face cream made my skin turn red and swollen. This weekend, my shampoo and conditioner irritated my scalp so badly that the skin sloughed off in fairly large chunks. (Go figure, my actual hair is starting to make a recovery and has regained some gleam and bounce, but my scalp is one big scab.) So it's back to baby shampoo for me! Also, Mike and I like Wintergreen Lifesavers, we have for years, but having a few made the inside of my mouth unbearably itchy.
