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Sugar and caffeine

19:18 / 29.01.07

I'm well into my new years detox (no alcohol for six weeks) but i also decided to give up milk and sugar in my six cups of coffee a day. last week i had an excrutating headache, then i realised i hadn't drunk and black tea or coffee for two days! somethign else my energy levels were way up, hyper and almost manic, so I've given up caffine for good!
I am experiencing unusually high levels of enviromental stress right now, my work is moving, we have three teenage kids one of whom (17 girl) is auditioning for the Omen, and I'm also not only putting out a research project for my BSc but writing extra essays to evidence prior learning, oh and I'm also a coach at a hypnotherapy colledge......despite this i feel fucking great, the wife and i have got a little hedonistc weekend away planned for the end of our detox, red wine and a few illegals but I'm seriously considering making sobriety a regular gig (i only used to drink at weekends anyway having drifted away from 20 years as the biggest kaner in London)

I feel fucking great...

how did other peoples detoxes go?

Jake, Colossus of Clout

19:38 / 29.01.07

I took two days off from drinking this week. It scared me.

19:46 / 29.01.07

the Omen??? And you're not drinking??? Wow!

I'm cutting down on sugar now. first thing to go was non-diet soda.

Next thing I'm cutting off is my semi-weekly pizza. That's gonna be hard

Alcohol I can go without, no sweat. It's "Mary J." I have a hard time not using...

Whisky Priestess

09:51 / 30.01.07

One glass of wine a day unless going out, two coffees, and max 10 cigarettes. Unless going out.

I'm crap at this aren't I?

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:53 / 30.01.07

espite this i feel fucking great, the wife and i have got a little hedonistc weekend away planned for the end of our detox, red wine and a few illegals

We prefer the term "undocumented worker" around here.

13:57 / 30.01.07

I'm cutting out alchohol, refined sugar, recreaional drugs and processed foods of all sorts. If it's not organic, or if I didn't pick it, I'm not eating it.

More water, more excercise. Lot's of raw foods. Warm water before breakfast (cold water shocks the sphincters and doesn't flush you so) and excercise between lessons.

Oh yes Ms McKeith, don't think I can't do it. Oh no, I'll show you, Gillian.

07:31 / 02.02.07

My energy levels are still up , i was expecting a crash after my body realised i was no longer pumping it full of inneficent stimulants, but no I'm bursting with energy. I'm still fairly hyper as per double latte but instead of running round in circles I'm focused and actually ahead of my work schedule.
I know I've always been quite sensative to stimulants, its why i self medicated with amphetamines for years, but it seems having emotional stability enables me to simply enjoy all the exeberant natural energy.

I feel a bit like the lead character in 'Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation' by martin miler and theres a mild paranoia the coffee marketing board will hire an assassin if i don't shut the fuck up, though i guess i could always marry them.....

despite commiting to a bottle or two of bubbles and a bugle for my 8th aniversary weekend i know I'm gonna stay of the caffine and avoid whatever sugar I can for the future.

no wonder they don't allow astronauts caffine or tobacco in space, and give them decent amphetamines instead...whats good enough for space is good enough for everyone----begins to see sinister political plots behind starbucks, there was a starbucks right next to the twin towers you know!

:-0

07:34 / 02.02.07

oh and LOL @ We prefer the term "undocumented worker" around here.