{"id":79,"date":"2007-02-09T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T08:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2007\/02\/09\/the-no-week\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T21:32:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T19:32:01","slug":"the-no-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2007\/02\/09\/the-no-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week no-Coffee no-Beer no-Wine no-CocaCola no-BlackTea no-GreenTea no-Chocolate :)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Illustration<\/a>Yes, I am firmly decided. It’ll be this week. I start right now. This morning.<\/p>\n

The experiment will continue exactly one week, or 168 hours. From Friday to Friday.<\/p>\n

I will exclude from my daily diet everything, which contains caffeine and alcohol, also tannin. Any stimulating or calming chemical substances.<\/p>\n

I won’t drink coffee. Regular coffee, and also decaffeinated coffee. Nor soluble coffee. No coffee at all.<\/p>\n

I won’t eat chocolate. Nor waffers. You won’t be able to seduce me even with Lindt pralin\u00e9s (although this one will be tough, If you’ve tried Lindt Lindor<\/em>, mmmmmh… then you know what I’m talking about;-)<\/p>\n

In the evening, I won’t drink a beer or two to relax. The wine also will be included in my “black list”. Same for the tea with some honey and a bit of whiskey, before going to bed.<\/p>\n

I won’t drink green tea as well, as it contains caffeine and tannin. Nor black tea. Only herbal infusions and Rooibos tea.<\/p>\n

You won’t be able to tempt me with some Coke, too.<\/p>\n

Everything which is stimulating and calming goes into this list. You won’t see me even with my favourite Aldo Morelli<\/em> bent pipe, blowing small beautiful smoke clouds to the wind (not that you can see me with it often, anyway, but this way the list looks more impressive;-)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Don’t get me wrong – not that I am so terribly addicted to caffeine, tannin, alcohol, Coca-Cola and chocolate;-)<\/p>\n

Rather the opposite! (I appreciate moderation, and I am not against caffeine, tannin and wine. I am curious, will it be easy to escape the habit for a while, and what’ll happen. Call it “Purification”. Or “Experiment”. Or “What will happen, if…”. It doesn’t matter.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, during the day, I drink one or two cups of coffee, with great pleasure (sometimes three). During the week-end I don’t drink coffee usually, only tea, Rooibos, herbal infusions or green tea. In the evening I like to open a cold beer from the fridge – do you know, how well they go together, cold beer and fried potatoes and a salad from tomatoes and cucumbers, mmmmh!:-)<\/p>\n

I love and I appreciate the good wine, too. A glass of red wine, in the evening, is something beautiful, and lots of studies proved that the moderate consumption of red wine leads to longer life<\/a> (see France, for example), and also may act stimulatingly if you do some creative work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don’t drink Coca-Cola, maybe a couple of times during the year, maximum.<\/p>\n

In fact, the goal of this experiment is to see, how will I feel, if a whole week my body is deprived from any of these substances – caffeine, tannin, alcool, etc…<\/p>\n

And after a week? Nothing:) I’ll just write about the results of the experiment. Wish me luck, for now! I go to get myself another glass of water:)))<\/p>\n

Note: If you see that after a week there is no single new post in my blog, it means… The experiment was unsuccessful and my body was too accustomed to all of these substances. Tell a short prayer in this case and… no matter what happens, don’t stop the coffee and beer!:-P<\/em><\/p>\n

UPDATE: Errrr, well… I guess the start of this righteous decision should be postponed for tomorrow – right now I am drinking cold beer at home after being with friends and some great red wine:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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