What Caffeine Withdrawl is Doing to Me

It's making me irritable, forgetful, and shaky. Did I mention irritable?

I don't even think I was this irritable when I tried to quit smoking. Ok, maybe that was worse. Which is why I didn't succeed at quitting smoking. I admit it, I'm weak.

[Aside] I've got American Idol on the TV in the other room - Anwar is gone? America, what were you thinking???[/Aside]

This is only the third day after I made up my mind to stop drinking all the Coke. I want a Coke so bad I could spit. But no, I'm doing the right thing and sucking down water like there's no tomorrow. Two weeks ago, I'd be on my fourth or fifth Coke of the day.

But unlike quitting smoking, I succeeded in kicking the Coke habit before, so I know I can do it again. It's just getting past the mornings where I wake up bleary eyed, still half-asleep as I'm driving into work, wondering if I should just make a quick stop at the convenience store to get a caffeine fix. So far, so good on that front. But it's only been a couple of days. I have noticed, though, that my patience is wearing thin with a lot of things, and it doesn't help that the entire state of Pennsylvania seems to be under road construction at the moment, forcing me to sit in traffic for an ungodly amount of time. Thank goodness I still smoke, or else I'd have some serious road rage.

I think kicking the soda habit is one of the biggest things in my new-found desire to get my fat ass in shape again. Four or five Cokes a day is easily pushing 1000 calories or more! In Weight Watchers' terms, that's probably all my points for the day and then some. It seems like a fairly benign way to shave some hefty calories off the diet. But it's still hard.

I still haven't gathered the courage to step on the scale, but maybe in a couple of weeks that can be a goal.