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I don't even know what I am calling this post-quitting-my-job-time anymore.  Developing my new career?  Self-development?  Simply finding myself (before I even develop me)?  Finding happiness?  All of the above?  No matter.  Labels schmabels.

I have been off sugar for a week.  Off caffeine four days (although I have had decaf and I can feel it).  Who knows if I will make it another hour without either, but I will write about my experience until now.  I cannot believe how my body has reacted and withdrawn.  I thought for sure it would not be a big deal.  I also thought for sure my fatigue and headaches (which I never get) were due to something else.  I was convinced I had some mysterious disease.

Today I feel terrific.  I will report, which nobody wants to hear, I feel the best after I drink those green drinks -- spinach, kale, celery, lemon, apple, ginger (or a variation thereof).  I kept reading how people feel great after drinking them and I was like, "Really?  How good could a healthy drink make you feel?".  Well, pretty good.  I definitely don't have the crazy feeling I had last week, either.

I am hoping that tonight, which I have experienced most evenings, is that I don't get the headache I have been getting where it feels like someone is gripping from behind my ears to the base of my skull and squeezing very hard.  I was in my french class last night and I could barely concentrate my head hurt so bad.  I just kept drinking water and I think I literally must have been wincing when I was talking about ma famille.