No Caffeine: Day 3... the final day!

I will preface this post by saying that I am drinking a cup of fabulous, warm coffee right this minute!

My hardcore dieting and no caffeine lasted three days!  After two days of caffeine headaches, I am never quitting coffee cold turkey again!  To be more realistic, I'm probably never quitting coffee period! 

Day 3 - I woke up with just a slight headache, took some advil, and went to basketball practice.  I ate a banana and an apple for breakfast.  I really don't like bananas that much... but I powered through.  I ran a bunch of errands around town and went to the grocery store.  I found some good deals on more apples and veggies.  When I got home, I made myself a lunch of yogurt & granola and some bread & cheese.  While it fulfilled my hunger, it wasn't that exciting since I'd had pretty much the same thing the day before.

By the time Kevin got home from work, I'd pretty much decided that I am not hardcore enough to cut out all of my favorites (hamburgers, tortilla chips, coffee!!!).  When he decided that he'd had enough of life without coffee, we scrapped the whole diet and returned to normal life!  This was conveniently timed because we ended up going to dinner with friends.  I ate chips & salsa and a chicken caesar salad without the dressing.  Still pretty healthy, but I allowed myself the tortilla chips to splurge! 

All in all, it was an interesting experience, but I'm not disciplined enough to continue 14 days without my favorite beverage!  Ahhh... coffee, I've missed you!

No Caffeine: Day 2

Caffeine withdrawal!!!!  I really missed my coffee this morning.  I ate an apple for breakfast.  It's not the same as coffee!  I've been sporting a killer headache all day and have felt kinda crappy most of the day, too.  My body's working through the caffeine withdrawal.  I've also been craving chips and salsa ALL day!  Every time I walk by the kitchen or pantry, I can hear tortilla chips calling my name!  I've stayed strong, though.

I've been super sleepy all day, so I think I'm going to call it a night early and get some needed rest.  I'm really hoping that the headaches are gone by tomorrow...

No Caffeine: Day 1 Update

I'm really glad that I'm detoxing the caffeine over Winter Break... my kids would call me a mean teacher if I was at school today.  Without my coffee this morning, I've turned into Grouchy Sarah!!!  Yikes!  I've had a significant headache all day, but I'm keeping it at bay with some Advil.  From previous caffeine detoxing, I know that the first day and a half are the worst.  This time tomorrow, most of the caffeine will be out of my system, and I won't be dragging quite so much! 

I ate some turkey for lunch, yes, just turkey!  I needed to run some errands, so I just heated up some turkey and scarfed it down.  Then I had some Greek yogurt and granola for a snack just now.

I also went grocery shopping and loaded up on fruits and veggies.  Kroger had a good sale on apples and oranges!!  I bought some Kale... never eaten it before, but it's supposed to be rich in vitamins and nutriuents... yikes.  I'm scared...

Hopefully now with a snack in my tummy and some food in the house, I'll be less grouchy! 

No Caffeine!!!

Seriously!  We cut out caffeine for two weeks!  We're trying to eat healthier.  With that we decided to do a juice fast to cleanse our systems of all the toxins and junk food.  So for the next few days, we're eating super healthy to prepare for the juice fast.  We'll do the juice-only fast for 3-5 days depending on doctor approval, and then we'll eat super healthy for a few days after that to ease our bodies back into a normal food routine. 

As of this morning, we have cut out caffeine, alcohol, red meat, processed food, and all junk food for the next two weeks.  What's left???  Fruit, veggies, chicken, turkey, yogurt, granola, pasta, dairy, and juicer-made juice.  Both of us have been looking toward a more healthy diet anyway, and with the purchase of a Jack La Lanne juicer (http://www.powerjuicer.com/), we decided to boost the health food kick with juicing!  We then watched Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (a documentary about juicing - http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/).  After that we decided to try a short juice fast. 

Today is day one of NO CAFFEINE!!!!!!  I already miss my morning coffee.  I took some Advil this morning to lessen the caffeine headache... not looking forward to that!  I will be missing my Diet Coke this afternoon as well.  We will blog throughout the next few weeks to document our caffeine withdrawals and our successes!

I made juice for breakfast - about 1 cup of fresh cabbage, 2 handfuls of spinach, 2 celery stalks, about 7 carrots, 3 apples, and a handful of blackberries.  This made two big glasses for Kevin and I.  It takes more like veggies today than usual.  If I add an orange in the mix, you can hardly taste the veggies.  Bottoms up on the breakfast juice and goodbye to coffee for the next two weeks.  More updates coming soon!