It's easy, especially at a ranch, to regulate energy levels chemically. I was more addicted to caffeine during my first months working here than at any other point in my life. People are interesting, and the weather is perfect, and porch sitting until late at night has never seemed more compelling. And there's always a pot of coffee sitting around in case you stay up too late to lift you up and carry you through the next day.
I'm on the 3rd day of a no-coffee, no-alcohol, go-to-sleep-on-time week. I'm limiting refined sugar, not having any deserts, and keeping away from red meat as well. Hoping to get more in touch with my body's un-influenced energy cycle and see to what extent my energy is chem-dependent currently.
I like coffee and I like a beer after work, so I doubt this will last forever. The idea is to question the role of unintentional habits of consumption in my life -- especially those that might give me "false" impressions of rest and wakefulness.
In place of those beverages, I'm having one bottle of Kombucha, which I was just recently introduced to, each day. I'm still buying it bottled at the supermarket, usually "GT's" brand, in part because I'm still new to and a little wary of home fermentation and probiotics, in part because I don't know how temporary my home here is (1 month or 6 months....), and mostly because I don't have much space and haven't found a person to get a "Kombucha mama" from.
They taste a little fruity, fairly sour, a little carbonated, fairly vinegar-y. I like the idea of Kombucha as much or more than I like the actual beverage.
For more information on Kombucha, see http://thegreenest.net/tag/kombucha-brooklyn/
I'm on the 3rd day of a no-coffee, no-alcohol, go-to-sleep-on-time week. I'm limiting refined sugar, not having any deserts, and keeping away from red meat as well. Hoping to get more in touch with my body's un-influenced energy cycle and see to what extent my energy is chem-dependent currently.
I like coffee and I like a beer after work, so I doubt this will last forever. The idea is to question the role of unintentional habits of consumption in my life -- especially those that might give me "false" impressions of rest and wakefulness.
In place of those beverages, I'm having one bottle of Kombucha, which I was just recently introduced to, each day. I'm still buying it bottled at the supermarket, usually "GT's" brand, in part because I'm still new to and a little wary of home fermentation and probiotics, in part because I don't know how temporary my home here is (1 month or 6 months....), and mostly because I don't have much space and haven't found a person to get a "Kombucha mama" from.
They taste a little fruity, fairly sour, a little carbonated, fairly vinegar-y. I like the idea of Kombucha as much or more than I like the actual beverage.
For more information on Kombucha, see http://thegreenest.net/tag/kombucha-brooklyn/
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