Oh my word! I've forgotten how bad day three can get. Well actually it all started up last night sometime if I'm honest...so day 2 as well then. All afternoon and evening I wanted diet coke SO SO SO bad. I resisted though and my grand total of drinks yesterday was a pitiful, 1 lemonade about 12 oz with ice, lots of it. 1.5 bottles of water with ice... lots and lots of it! 2.5 10 oz glasses of something we had at my birthday dinner and hubby recreated to take my mind off coke. Cranberry juice, Orange juice and some sprite which is technically pop, but doesn't have aspertame in it which is the big deal about the diet coke thing so is okay... although I'd rather not get into the habit of having ANY pop right now. This whole diet coke thing will also save us money if we can just QUIT pop in our house period rather than me finding something safer to transfer my loyalty to.
So... last night the urges for a Diet Coke were overwhelming and my hubby had to keep reminding me that I am strong enough to do this and that I've done it before. You see... HE can drink almost anything. I can't and am a pretty loyal one drink person and that's the way I've always been. When I was a kid, perhaps a few other kinds of pop here and there, but Regina water was horrid and we just soon started buying tons of Pepsi and that was my drink until I switched to Diet Coke after quitting Pepsi for 2 years. So I know this can be done, but the headache has started up and my eyes feel like they're being twisted out of my head!
All day yesterday and all night too, my left leg throbbed with a crippling pain, my left arm is kind of tingly today and my tendonitis in my left elbow is acting up so badly when I thought it had begun to heal at last! I had pressure around my middle, like the beginnings of a gall bladder attack last night but thankfully it went away. My breathing has been bad for the past two days which doesn't make any sense since the heat wave has broken here and these past two days have been less humid and cooler. Has to be the withdrawal. I guess I'm well preserved after drinking this stuff for 14 years!
This morning, except for the huge headache, foggy eyesight and throbbing muscles in my shoulders and back, not sure where or why that came.... I feel anxious to get some things done around here.
Oh... the best part right now..... I AM ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yup! First time alone in this house since I couldn't tell you when! I can hear the dryer flipping clothes around in the back hall which is the very back of our house and I am sitting here in the very front! Now that's a rare thing because the kids make SO much noise all of the time.
I know this quiet won't last for long.... maybe a half hour to an hour.... so I'm going to enjoy it to the fullest! The only thing bothering me is.... where do I start? A long hot bath? Clean up breakfast messes? Go upstairs and read? Start packing for our vacation coming right up? Decisions... Decisions... but I'm NOT going for that bottle of coke hidden in the back hall so I don't see it. It was still full when I started this and we just put it away for extreme freak outs and there will be some.... but can I still keep that bottle unopened until they end and I have broken my addiction because that IS what it is... an addiction I guess.... to diet coke? We'll see!
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