Fasting Journal : Coffee sidebar

So I've been on a long coffee fast.

I haven't talked about it much, but I did just decide one day to stop drinking coffee. It was more than a month ago but I forget the day.

Oh, turns out it was almost two months ago, January 16th.

Anyway, it's been long enough that I should have seen any benefits in the range I was looking for. Decreased stress, increased sleep, more than anything else.

I have absolutely NOT seen those benefits. The only benefit I have seen is that I don't have to get up to piss as often. I don't think that's worth it.

So, I'm getting up right now and going to make myself a cup of coffee from freshly ground kona beans from my freezer.

[time passes]

Well, this is interesting. I definitely feel the effect of the coffee, but I thought to actually check my numbers and my heart rate is 15% lower than my average for this time of day (65/77ths), and my blood pressure is markedly lower too (116/75 compared to 125/82 average).

I actually feel hyped though. I usually don't feel the effect of coffee, probably because I was acclimated to it, but right now I absolutely feel it in a physical way. But then there's that paradoxical but objective physiological result. Let me check again. Yep, not an anomaly. This is about 20 minutes after finishing the coffee, so the high (for me) temperature is not a result of that. I just have a little fever from this upper respiratory thing.

Temp: 98.4
Glucose: 93
BP: 118/78
HR: 61

While pricking my finger I discovered that I am actually a little jittery. But my numbers are down. Interesting. Also, mental activity is very high. You would have to know me in real life to see that. I suspect you would find me very intense right now.