update

I had a migraine on Thursday, and I popped my Excedrin without a second thought. I had a headache Sunday and decided to go with Excedrin again over other options. For the migraine I wasn't about to mess around, and with headaches in general I feel like the caffeine helps... now that it has been a couple of weeks without caffeine, I am pretty sure that the headaches I get are not fro ma lack of caffeine, so it feels like using caffeine like a drug... or medicine I guess seems more okay than constantly drinking soda or coffee.
When it comes down to it, I have not eliminated caffeine from my life, but I have scaled back a lot. I can see myself very easily ending back at my previous levels in very little time without actually making an effort to not go there...I pretty much always feel like I could use a little jolt of energy, my concentration is better with a little caffeine, and staying off of it has not helped my sleep at all (so that is not the incentive I thought it would be).
I am planning on maintaining the kind of minimal consumption I have settled into in the last week through the end of this project... but after that I am not sure what I'll do.