New Year

Last year we decided that New Years would be held on January 4th. It didn't seem fitting to start resolutions in the middle of New Year's weekend. Starting fresh on Monday seemed like a wiser idea, and it was. I went 365 days without drinking any my husband did 365 without smoking. Well, we each had one slip-up each, but 364 days is nothing to smirk at. So this year I decided that New Years would start on January 4th again. Only, now I fear it will have to start on January 5th.... Let me explain. I wanted to kick of this year with the Junger Cleanse. The junger cleanse is 21 days of no dairy, gluten, sugar, nightshade vegetables, corn and anything bad. Also, no prescription drugs, caffeine or alcohol. I'm sticking with the no alchohol thing, so that's easy. However, caffeine is a big vice of mine and I'm ready to examine the world without it, at least for a little while. Also, caffeine adds to the terrible heartburn that I've been pretending is no big deal because I don't want to have to face up to the fact that caffeine has to go. I've read that this cleanse gives you a big energy burst, so I thought it would be a fitting way to kick my caffeine habit and help start the year off right, dairy and sugar free. I decided that this was going to be a year I focus on mental health just as much as physical health. Quitting caffeine will improve my mental health by decreasing my anxiety and letting me get to know the me that exists underneath all my caffeination.

So, I got my juicer, bought some b complex vitamins and probiotics, went to yoga class, and made a delicious juice I couldn't drink. My heartburn was so bad today! I bought some traditional medicinal heartburn relief tea so that I wouldn't have to break the cleanse by taking Prevacid, but the tea only helped my acid stomach so long as nothing was in it. A sip of my awesome juice brought me right back to painful, acidy as hell stomach. !!?? So I popped two prevacid and ate some ricotta to coat my stomach. Cured! But completely screwed up the cleanse. So, tomorrow I will try again. I will succeed. I will cut my caffeine consumption in half tomorrow instead of waiting a week. New Years is now officially January 5th this year.