{"id":9732,"date":"2019-10-01T13:41:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=9732"},"modified":"2019-10-01T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T17:41:08","slug":"day-6-but-whos-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=9732","title":{"rendered":"Day 6.  But Who&#8217;s Counting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3980\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6Fingers.jpg\" alt=\"ugh\" class=\"wp-image-9702\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How many fingers am I holding up?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I honestly don&#8217;t feel any difference after 5 full days without coffee and nearly zero caffeine most of those days.  What I believe to be stress-related phenomena, for lack of a better word because I don&#8217;t want to say &#8220;symptoms&#8221; or &#8220;issues,&#8221; have not abated yet.<\/p>\n<p>My theory here is, if emotional stress is impacting my body to the point where my physical therapist says, &#8220;You are the most tense person I know,&#8221; and I don&#8217;t sleep well because of muscle spasms and tension in my neck &#8211; not to mention nighttime anxiety, then too much of a stimulant like caffeine can&#8217;t be helping my situation.  Thus the idea of eliminating caffeine, especially coffee, has been enacted.<\/p>\n<p>And it blows.<\/p>\n<p>Day 6:  the stress phenomena continue, I&#8217;m tired, and I have a caffeine withdrawal headache still.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m pressing on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I honestly don&#8217;t feel any difference after 5 full days without coffee and nearly zero caffeine most of those days. What I believe to be stress-related phenomena, for lack of a better word because I don&#8217;t want to say &#8220;symptoms&#8221; or &#8220;issues,&#8221; have not abated yet. My theory here is, if emotional stress is impacting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=9732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 6.  But Who&#8217;s Counting?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9734,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}