Ever have one of those little Epiphany’s?........you know the one where you are doing something and
all at once a thought flashes in your brain and you say
“Whoa..........Maybe I should think about this further!” and then
suddenly your brain goes into high gear and you start thinking of
random things that have happened and they all validate your little
Epiphany!
Several weeks ago I had just such a
thought..............it was actually about 11:30 and I was heating a
cup of coffee in the microwave. No it wasn't because I had forgotten
the coffee and it had gone cold it was because my coffee pot only
stays on for two hours and then shuts off...........and since the
coffee in the pot had cooled down.........it meant I had been sipping
on coffee for over two hours. I looked around and saw an empty
Chicken Express cup from the day before – yes I do love their ice
tea.
I have always been a “drinker”,
meaning I have a drink all the time.............and it hit me that no
matter what the drink was that I had in hand.............it had
caffeine in it!
This lead me to the thought
that I had spent half the night before out of bed
dancing.............not fun dancing but “dancing” trying to get
rid of a leg cramp that had woke me up in the middle of the
night..............and this was not a new experience, I had been
having leg cramps a LOT lately. My daddy's cure for leg cramps was
to drink a big glass of water, and that was what I had done to
finally get to sleep.
Recently I had also read an article
that said that to much caffeine actually interfered with ones ability
to concentrate................and I have to be honest in saying that
I have really been having some problems doing that of late, to the
point it has scared me a little.
I vowed right then and there that maybe
it would be a good idea to cut back on my caffeine intact during the
day light hours. Notice that I did not say Give Up
caffeine..........face it folks I am STILL not ready to cut Coffee,
Tea, or Cokes out of my life! Although I will say that the other day
I looked at a can of Coke in my fridge and it dawned on me that I had
not had one in several days.............splurge time! I popped the
top............... (insert frowny face)........... it just didn't
taste that good............. I didn't finish it and I haven't had one
since.
Now there is a down side to all of
this............yeah I know, everything has a downside. Yes I have
had way more headaches than normal, I have been achy, tired, and
yes pretty irritable............ I so do not tolerate things very
well right now – but I have high hopes that THAT will get better!
I find it ironic that many of the Symptoms or Side Affects of Caffeine "overload" are the SAME as Caffeine Withdrawal!
During this past month I am proud to
say that I have conservatively cut my caffeine intact in
half............and I have inserted WATER in it's
place.............course at my age that means I have also doubled or
tripled my trips to the bathroom but that is another story.
This past Friday I attended the
Amarillo Women's Network Professional Development Luncheon, the
speaker talked about stress and how to control your stress for a
better life. And Oh My! She talked about CAFFEINE! In fact she
even talked about a study where scientists feed spiders caffeine and
photographed their webs...............
Scary right? What is really scary is
that I looked at the Caffeine web and thought “that is exactly how
my mind seems to work lately!”
Before that meeting was done I vowed
that what I had cut in half.............was going to be cut in half
again..............and BEFORE Thanksgiving!
Hope I still have some friends left by
then....................and that I can pay my water bill!
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