Frantic and tmi

Day 3 with no soda, cold turkey.

I feel very frantic and very dehydrated. But water does not satisfy me. I am like a cursed pirate. I have been awake for almost 24 hours, and have not yet started to feel tired. I had my new invention at about 5 pm. I call it a chia chai. I think I must have toxins, and lingering chemicals in my system still so I am sticking with the chia.   Also, probably tmi, but quitting also correlates to an unexpected start date of my menstrual cycle. I am not saying it started it, but I have been told that the diet soda aggrevates my PCOS by manipulating my body into metabolic syndrome. In layman's terms, diet soda makes my body not know how to process sugar. This, I believe, is linked to my PCOS which can alter my cycle, often causing irregular or unexpected periods.

I feel really optimistic at this point. I don't feel like I am unable to be successful with this. I just kinda feel like I have somewhere to be that I can't remember. There is definitely a vacuum that has been created in the holes where soda used to be. I just hope that I have to common sense to fill it with something good.

Quitting soda for reals.

So, this is the first whole day that I have gone completely with no soda. I have slept for 13 hours and am still incredibly fatigued, achy, irritable, and have a general feeling of being frantic. I feel like I may at any moment run out the door to replenish myself. I am not sure whether it is a chemical detox that I need, or the emotional fortitude to break the habit. At least Richard is doing it too. So, I am drinking water with chia seed, and trying to minimize eating to flush the remaining toxins from the soda from my system. I am also going to try to journal this process, so that when I am on the other side of it, maybe something in my struggle may help someone else. Maybe they'll only be on their 15th or 16th time trying to quit.

I feel like my philosophy in this has to be to facilitate the conditions that my body needs to heal itself.