Remember I just started this "read the labels" Diet.
Right! I've been reading labels for 20+ years, so, it's rather second nature for me and I forget that others just buy food and eat. I mean, I regularly re-read labels of food that I eat all the time, just in case they've changed their recipe because I have ended up getting sick when I forgot to do so. While you're reading those labels, just look at all the things they sneak chicken into--it actually seems to keep getting worse and is at the point where I rarely trust people who call food vegetarian unless they let me read the ingredients myself. I mean, there is even a professional catering company around here that widely advertises their vegetarian menu who puts chicken broth in their supposedly vegetarian rice. When I called them on it I was told that "it's just for flavour and doesn't make it non-vegetarian". Argh!!!
Btw, Tamari is a form of soy sauce and you can get it in the same section as all the others in my local grocery store.
I hear if you can get though the first 3 or 4 days
of 0 caffeine you're fine.
Yes, and, no.
If your addiction to caffeine is purely chemical and purely to caffeine, then, this is true. However, if your addiction is psychological as well (most are) then you'll need something to replace the "caffeine craving". So, when you really want the cup of coffee you make yourself a nice cup of warm organic peppermint/lemongrass tea, or, something similar. Also, if you are addicted to coffee, coffee actually contains a bunch of other oils that are even more addictive than caffeine and you may keep craving it for longer.
I'm wishing you luck.
I'm not going to join in for several reasons (not the least of which is that the animal products I eat are something I need to keep my body used to), but, I think I'm going to use it as incentive to truly cut out high-fructose corn syrup. I'm mostly good with this except when traveling in the US where all kinds of things seem to contain it--I couldn't believe it when I recently discovered that US Gatorade now has high-fructose corn syrup when their claim to fame used to be that they had balanced their product for optimum hydration usage whereas other sports drinks used HFCS. Argh!
Anyway, sorry for staying on-topic, but, I seem to recall Wally claiming that was his goal for this thread--despite the evidence to the contrary! I'm having fun listening in though.
