65 Days

On February 19th, I consumed my last known caffeinated beverage. Since then I've had about one headache, and I typically feel much better. My goal is to slowly start phasing out carbonated beverages altogether. Right now, the only thing I drink carbonation wise is Diet Sprite (or similar). I decided not to even drink the Caffeine Free Diet Dr. Pepper, even though it was a temptation.

I chose to do this because I had to start teaching myself that I didn't need to be dependent on something like that. I have amazingly been able to have self control over the dark colas and caffeinated beverages, but I've lost a little more control on other things. I tend to overeat more, but i'm not really sure why.

Eventually, my willpower is going to have to take another step. The transparency of putting your life on a blog has a highly motivating effect on accomplishing a task.

So my next mission, will be considerably more challenging. I have decided to give up fried food. The reason this is more daunting is the fact that there are a lot of things you eat that you might not realize are fried. Therefore, it will be a lot harder to enforce this on myself. The main things I'm targeting are:

1. French Fries
2. Fried Chicken Fingers/ etc.
3. Basically anything at Cracker Barrell (sorry mom, I know you work for them, but that's all they really have to eat).

To add on to the fried food ban, I'm going to limit my fast food intake to times when it was basically intended for -- when I'm in a hurry.

Pray for me as I continue to stay off the caffeine, and as I try to kick the fried food/fast food habit.