I really don’t get it. What is in my coffee that doesn’t agree with me that other people can drink without issue? When I’m drinking coffee I slowly fall out of control. It’s the strangest thing. I don’t mean in a really obvious, like an addict, but slow change of who I am.
- I’m more irritable and aggravated
- I am always ready for sleep and can’t keep eyes open at night
- My heart rate and bp raises
- I become more impulsive and apathetic, this one really gets me. When I am on coffee, the day starts with coffee and I am focused. In my work goals, life goals, and I love the coffee. But as the days go it changes. I change. And I still have that focus but I start to become apathetic but ruminate on my original focus of things that were important to me. So the ideas still exist in me but my apathy and impulsiveness are on the forefront. I know my values are there but at the same time I don’t care; but then I circle back around constantly beating myself up. And its not after my first cup of coffee; this is something that happens over time. I lose sight and I don’t see it for what it is. It never fails, this is where it leads me.
- Even if I start the day out great by the end I’m like who cares but yet I am obsessed with my failures.
I know I cannot be alone in this. I genuinely think there is something in there just messes with my brain chemistry. And even decaf does this to me. Its not the me I want to be. And I am def not perfect without it but twice now I was able to get things in my life to a better place, and lose the negative obsessing when I stopped drinking it! I still have hot water in the morning while I go through emails and I feel good about it. I know it sounds so dull. Sorry.
This morning I am at 164.2. I am hoping to be at 163 by Monday for my weigh in! I am really excited about it. I was thinking this morning when I weighed in that I worry about how I will maintain but I think the thing is that I need to realize I don’t need to eat so much food. I don’t need to eat all the junk. And dessert doesn’t need to be what I always thought. Maybe sugar free pudding or fruit. As long as its filling my tummy and slightly sweet I feel great about it. It’s interesting in 2017, when I lost a bunch of weight. I had to promise myself ice cream once a week and I had chocolate every night after dinner. Lately chocolate tastes gross to me, and I am ok with not having ice cream once a week. When I want to have it I will and it will be very small. Because I don’t need to have the big portions. I don’t need to over indulge. It’s weird like something has clicked in me, where I just want a better life. Maybe its the insane bp I have had when I went to the doctors twice recently. I know I can get this under control. I am doing this for me.