I've been reading Lolly's journey the past couple weeks while she's been on her journey to good health and I was inspired to buy the book she recommended. It didn't take more than a couple pages to realize that "it's time". I need to get off caffeine and cleanse the junk out of my body. My muscles ache a lot of the time and I almost literally live on caffeine which makes it difficult to get really good rest and makes me pretty tense by the end of the day. I also have a very small upper torso making me a prime candidate for osteoporosis in the future which is also a good reason to occasionally reassess what I'm putting in my body.

Today I have a pretty bad headache. I started weaning off caffeine on Sunday and have cut my daily intake from the equivalent of maybe 6 large lattes a day (probably more) to 4 diet cokes a day. Maybe that's too quick of a shift but I'm guzzling water and eating healthier foods. I also cut out white sugar and white flour starting Sunday. I'm still craving sweets but I figure I need to take control so I'm just trying to keep busy and not think about food all the time. I do typically eat when I get headaches so today it's been hard. Right now as I right this it's almost time for a little caffeine so I'm hoping that will take the edge off.

I apologize if you came here looking for knitting or spinning news. I'm still dyeing for the local shop and developing new colorways on cotton yarns as well as trying out some of those great colorways that were suggested during the contest last week. I will continue to talk about my journey on the UltraSimple Diet so this is fair warning. It's only for a couple weeks so it shouldn't get too boring.

If you have any encouragement or caffeine withdrawal secrets I'd love to listen.

Be sure to go check out Lolly's inpirational journey.