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Originally posted by Fugee
Normally my flavor of wingnut does not give up things for Lent but I decided to this year. I was first going to give up ice cream (I loooooove ice cream) but decided that wasn't much so I'm going for broke and giving up ice cream AND cola. I am an addict and never have a can far from my hand. My brother once asked if I have to run an IV line at night. I had two cans left last night so decided to finish them this morning and then start. I have half a can left.
This is to put you all on notice that unless I cave and forego my vow, I may be the uber bitch from hell for the next 39-1/2 days. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Now this is going to sound all flakey and earnest, but I don't show my flakey and earnest side here enough, I suppose. So Fugee, I gave up caffeine totally last month. I'm on my 35th day or so. I was a total addict. Not really scarfing it down in huge quantities, but if I went without it for one day, I got an enormous headache.
I hate being addicted to anything so I wanted to give it up just so I wouldn't be addicted. And I tried and I tried many times in the past but I would cave. I got down to one cup a day, but I couldn't give it up without the huge headache.
So the only thing I did differently was wake up and meditate for 5 minutes in the morning before doing anything else. I suppose you could pray. It worked! I went without caffeine that day and every day since. NO headache. A miracle of sorts, not to debase the term miracle.
I suppose I could have passed on this little advice by PM but now that I've typed it all out I'm going to subject you all to it. sorry
