Quitting drinking: are the withdrawal symptoms Im having from giving up alcohol, or caffeine?
Add my voice to the choir congratulating you on quitting drinking. Giving up booze was both the hardest and most rewarding thing I have ever done. I am a drunk but IANAD so I will just stick to my experience. I found that my as much as body missed its regular daily dose of booze it also really missed the huge amounts of sugar that it was getting both from the booze and from the mixers. I went from being someone who rarely had sweets (other than booze and mixers) to someone who would actually add honey to Gatorade to increase the sugar content. As many other people have said up-thread giving up both the booze and the soda at the same time is probably asking a little too much of both yourself and your body. For the next month or so give yourself permission to have that sugar and caffeine. Alcohol is something that I had to (and still have to) abstain from completely – for someone like me, there is no such thing as “one drink,” that is something that I am totally incapable of. Sugar, caff
