Day 5 - Still!! and Day 6 - Almost Caffeine Free

Well once again I woke up with a mild headache.  The good news is, it wasn't that bad and it didn't last long.  I think tomorrow will be the day I can make it on 1/4 cup of coffee.  I miss the ritual of coffee making and the taste of drinking it but I don't miss the highs and lows of energy.  I'm not saying coffee is bad, it's just not a great feeling when you "need" coffee to get through a day.  
Today I had a very full day of work, home and kid stuff and I did not experience that usual mid-afternoon slump and I didn't even think about coffee or sugar until I started to write about today.  I was however VERY hungry at one point, but it was lunch time and I didn't feel tired or irritable, just hungry. Once you eliminate sugars from your diet, your body is able to keep your blood sugar steady, as it should be. 

For my life cleanse today I tackled a small pile of paperwork, baby steps for me :-)

It's very interesting how people react when they find out you're doing a cleanse.  I struggle with mentioning it to people because I don't want them to think I preaching some crazy "diet" or judging their diet, yet I want to share the knowledge and offer support and assistance if they want to try and feel better and even heal themselves.  Food is medicine.  

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Day 6 - Almost Caffeine Free 

Well today I felt pretty good.  I seriously only had a few sips of coffee this morning and that's it.  The problem with caffeine is it has been shown to spike your blood sugar which then leads to a slump which means you need another hit and so it goes, up and down. 

Cooking on the cleanse is easy but boring, unless you get a Candida cook book or do lots of research on the web.  We tend to eat relatively mild tasting food anyway so it's not a huge stretch to cook on the cleanse.  The problem is getting creative with packed lunches, eating out and snacks.  

Lunches are usually soup, hummus or leftovers. I find it's better to not eat out at all because it's very difficult to find food that suits this cleanse.  We tend to do too much snacking, particularly late at night.  During the cleanse we snack on nuts and seeds and usually after all that crunching and chewing I'm pretty full and the snack desire has faded.  

Today I tackled a kitchen drawer, not the official "junk drawer" but one that had become the "unofficial" junk drawer.  I can't believe how much stuff one little drawer can hold!  It took about 30 minutes, but in the end everything found it's rightful home, baking utensils were moved and now I have an empty drawer in my kitchen! 

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