Being sick this past week has changed a lot of things for me and I'm glad. I normally drink coffee but didn't feel like it Sunday morning was so ill, that and all the meds I was taking and my illness had my blood pressure and pulse way up so I just decided I would forego the coffee (and now I'm safely past any withdrawal symptoms) and I've avoided the sugar (desserts, candy) and alcohol too so I'm just going with that and drinking more water and seeing what will happen over the course of a couple weeks. I've lost a couple pounds I think and am hopeful I will feel and sleep a lot better too as well as have better numbers.

But I've been thinking of illness and how we are supposed to try this, that and the other change and yet it is so hard because we have our normal habits and don't really think they interfere with "new" things that go wrong or we sort of try changes but they don't seem to work. I would not have stopped the coffee if I hadn't not wanted it in the first place, been too sick to contemplate it. But I'm glad I am getting this opportunity to not do caffeine, sugar, alcohol (beer and pizza night will be tolerable because of this trial, I'd normally just modify it a little instead of foregoing completely but with all the other stuff too, I'm curious enough to "suffer" :-)