Caffine update

It's been 6 weeks since I quit caffeine cold turkey. 

The day after I made the decision and announcement I got to work, made a pot of coffee and was on my second cup before I remembered I didn't want to do that anymore!  I was a little disappointed in myself, but I didn't let it slow me down much.  I dumped the cup I had remaining and filled up my water bottle.  The next day I still made the coffee, but I didn't drink any. 
I've had an occasional iced tea.  Several of those were because I wasn't thinking again.  I avoided the caffeinated sodas and had iced tea instead.  What sense does that make?  I guess I have to be a little bit flexible.  I'm not a fan of clear soda usually, and I can never remember which root beer has no caffeine1.  So I can avoid the caffeine or I can avoid the sugary soda.  I guess I could just drink water, but at a restaurant that seems kind of unsatisfying. 

I ended up with headaches for only a few days.  But if I drank enough water during the day that side effect of quitting was minimal.  And the first few days I found that my head felt cloudy in the afternoon and it was harder to concentrate.  When I started to feel like that I just got up and walked around the office for a few minutes then sat down to work again.  It seemed to help. 

This last weekend I noticed that getting out of bed was easier.  I didn't feel so groggy that I wanted to roll over and sleep another hour.  I just got up and got busy with my day.  I'm happy to find that has carried over into the weekdays as well.  I have been awake and clear headed well before my alarm goes off.  I'm sure that is part of not being dependent on caffeine and I hope that it continues.  It is certainly not an effect I anticipated.  I don't know what I was expecting, but getting up in the morning more easily wasn't on the list.




1.(root beer, my family has found is tricky. Some are caffeine free, but more of them do have caffeine. Even a creme soda we assumed was caffeine free wasn't.)