not quite as hopeless as

i previously thought...so as the week has gone on and the regime that i am on is starting to feel like a normal routine, i must admit to feeling somewhat better...

sure i'm not cured! but i am feeling WAY better than i was 2 weeks ago - this might be because i no longer drink betwen 6 & 8 cups of tea per day, but am down to 1 low caffeine cup in the mornings (except today when i had one in the afternoon, but that's coz i was feeling sick with cold/headache/fever etc)...sooo the giving up caffeine has been a feat - a huge feat and early on it felt like it would NOT be possible, but i guess it is - it was really hard actually - so much so i thought the headache alone would kill me, or make me kill someone else...

i can REALLY empathise with people who suffer from an addiciton of something far more serious than caffeine - giving up is really hard...and i remember doing a paper on whether addiction was physiological or psychological, and even then i said it was probably a combination of both, well i reckon that's true, but the physiological addiction is clearly what leads to the withdrawal headache...

man am i glad that phase is over - it's tough - one of the toughest things i've ever had to do, but 2 weeks on i think it's been worth it - so i don't know in the long term whether i'll keep to just one cup of low caffeine tea (it is of course my favourite T2 Daintree tea - so not like it's a big deal to give up the full caffeinated stuff)...but we'll see

and i've gone completely gluten free - this was nowhere near as hard and with some planning can be achieved quite easily - what i will say is that 10 years ago it was not this easy - there are so many fantastic alternatives these days - don't get me wrong, as there is simply NO gluten free alternative for the tim tam that's anywhere near as good, but when you don't feel bloated after EVERY meal and lose weight without exercising, that's surely gotta be good, right??

so i think what's coming next is sugar as the naturopath thinks i had candida and giving up my tea has in fact meant also giving up on most of the added sugar i was having, so that should hopefully be slightly easier than the last few things on the 'give up' list...

sooo the new regime, the acupuncture and me starting to feel better are indeed making me realise that things are not quite as hopeless as they were when last i posted...

let's hope it continues...