I gave up caffeine

You know that feeling when you wake up and you feel like someone has taken a hammer and hit you over the head about 5 times with it, then you get up and your entire back aches, then you stretch and you feel a huge knot on the right side of your neck? No? Well then you have obviously never quit drinking caffeine, or maybe you have tried to quit but you weren't as dependent on it as I was/am. This is only my second post this week because when I sat down to write the previous 3 days all I can think about was getting my hands on coffee, and when I remembered I had given up caffeine I just wrote a slew of incomprehensible babbling on my page. Needless to say, I am/was hooked.

It's not a fun feeling, realizing you don't have control over your own body, it's like opening the fridge at 10 at night and seeing pizza from dinner time, delicious cold pizza, you have to indulge. Or like going to KFC and seeing an advertisement for a double down, you have to get it. Is it horrible for you, absolutely, should you eat right before you go to bed and after you brush your teeth, no, does the double down have more cholesterol than eating a tub of mayonnaise with a spoon, of course it does. But we do it anyway, we eat it anyway, we drink it anyway. I haven't felt normal for 3 and a half days, I have been cranky and agitated, I actually punched a Jr. higher this week (not really, but my throbbing headache was telling me to.)
We are Americans, we enjoy indulging, and what I have noticed since I gave up caffeine, is I am eating more, it is like my body is swapping one vice for another rather than just saying no.
Proverbs 26:11, a verse that most men enjoy quoting, "As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool returns to his folly." We can't shake our sin a lot of times, and it gives us headaches and we wake up with knots in our backs and we get in fights with our spouses. It is hard to weed sin out of our lives because we love it so much, but in the end it is worth it to have control of our body, to render our lives as not so we can fully glorify God.
I understand how hard it is to remove sin, its like crabgrass in my flowerbeds, it won't go away unless we are diligent in getting rid of it. My crabgrass always comes back right when I think it is conquered and unfortunately my sin does too, but we are called to be diligent none-the-less.