Accidental Detox
It seems I have restored my sensitivity to caffeine while being off these past couple of weeks. On normal work days, I’ve built up to having a cup of tea with breakfast, a coffee when I get to work at 8:30 while reading emails, another one about 10:30 when I hit mid-morning, and then have a diet coke at lunch time. Occaisionally there is another caffinated drink in there, and often a tea or coffee late afternoon, depending on what my tastebuds are up for. (or if there’s cake. ugh. I’ve been on cake detox too).
But, over the past couple of weeks I’ve only had the occaisional coffee (such as at McDonalds Goulburn on the way home from Sydney last weekend, and the instant coffee I had in the hotel room because I knew I needed to wake up for a long night ahead)… and only 1 diet coke - the half a can I managed at lunch on Monday before realising that I really shouldn’t be at work, and went to the gym instead??? I got told off by my doctor for that, don’t worry. The can’s probably still sitting next to my keyboard, with the rest of my mess…
So, I think I’ve been on some sort of involuntary detox from my caffeine/diet coke addiction. And because I’ve been semi-conscious and my liver has been dealing with codeine and the antibiotics, it hasn’t missed haing other things in my system to deal with.
So where to from here? Do I attempt to stick to this and maybe stick with the tea over the coffee (possibly half to caffeine, according to Wikipaedia) and cut that diet coke out of my lunch… leaving it for the days then when I actually want the caffeine in my system?
We’ll see, it’s back to work tomorrow, and while I’m kinda looking forward to being a normal working human-being again, I don’t want to think about the mountain of emails that will be there for me to answer, and two weeks behind in things to get done for the term.
But there’s only 6 weeks of term left - a public holiday on June 9, and various other things such as PD (stuttering, manual handling, and evidence based practise) to tick away the days until July 4 - last day of term and time to leave Canberra for a month! (yes, I’m crossing off the days) :p
1Network Geek
wrote on 30 May 2008 at 1:14
I’m with the doctors on cutting back the Coke and even Diet Coke, but I’m not going to give up my morning cup of steaming hot “go juice”! I did that when I was going through cancer treatment last year and it was terrible. Not having my morning coffee was worse than getting chemotherapy!
Besides, there are actually some studies that suggest the bioflavinoids in coffee are beneficial, when taken in moderation.
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2Dataceptionist
wrote on 6 June 2008 at 19:58
perhaps if you have a problem with caffeine you could switch to (gold) Caffeine free diet coke? I find it has a similar taste to Coke Zero. I say that because I like Zero, and can drink it all day, but only drink Diet Coke under sufference. I like gold Diet Coke though
me, i’m a coffee freak. I couldn’t give up coffee.
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3Fiona
wrote on 7 June 2008 at 7:38
I don’t really like coke zero… It might be that I’m used to the taste of the diet coke… and have drunk it since I was a kid. Whereas I haven’t drunk much “real” coke in my time (prefer a lemoande, fanta, or reddrink) so don’t really seek out that taste in the sugar free substitute.
And caffine free? heh. I’ll stick to the water instead if that’s my only option!