Hot chocolate at 1:17 in the morning just because i cant sleep, and my throat hurts.

I forgot about hot chocolate 😍

@embracemthrhd2 i love it, something warm always helps with the sore throat more than something cold does.

Thats true... and uts way better than tea 😝

@embracemthrhd2 i like tea, but ever since ive gotten pregnant, hot chocolate is my coffee and tea. I was never addicted to caffinee but i loved my tea and coffee. The caffine in chocolate is 3x less than tea and coffee. I dont drink anymore than 90mg of caffine in a day, and its only a single day out of a week. Yes i count how much i intake in caffine to make sure im not drinking to much of it so it doesnt cause problems with the baby getting nutrients. I also count my sugar intake. Which has done me good so far, because i havent gotten gentestinal diabeties during my whole pregnancy.

Wow you better than me lol im trying to learn how to be more disciplined.

@embracemthrhd2 My mama raised me and my sister to have little caffine and sugar intake growing up. My dads a diabetic so she found this very important seeing as how me and my sister have a 75% chance if developing it bc its genetic. That and shes addicted to caffine and hates the withdraws.

So instead of letting us do the same, she raised us to drink water and juice. We didnt know what anything with caffine was until we were around 10. Because of that we were able to keep it under control, and personally we still perfer water and juice. I could drink coffee everyday for a month and then not touch it for over 6 months. Same with tea.

For the sugar intake mama never kept sweets in the house and only gave it to us a few times a month, sometimes less. This way we never craved it. Even when we went over to our grandparents house and got hooked on marshmellows we were still fine, because we didnt feel the need to ask for them outside of our grandparents house. (Also a fun tip. Marshmellows are the healthier alternative to sweet stuff. Yes they have alot of sugar, but they also contain less fat than a candy bar. So a serving of marshmellows is better for you than a serving of a candy bar)

The most interesting part. Me and my sister have ADHD. When we were little sugar and caffine didnt have the effect that it has now. As we got older instead of a pick me up, it became a let me down. For people with ADHD uppers are actually downers. Caffine and sugar actually makes us sleepy and sometimes makes us fall asleep. Which is half of the reason why i was drinking the hot chocolate, to make myself sleepy.

Wow j never knew that cause thats what sugar does to me i fall asleep!! Like just a little while ago a had a big laffe taffe and a sugar drink my boo just hot me amd i dosed off for like 10 min lol... but it happens all the time even with donuts and cookies... hmmm.

@embracemthrhd2 ADD and anxiety also has the same effect. When normally our bodys would respond by our nerves getting uppedie because of the sugar, our nerves are already high, so there for it calms them down. ADHD is our main one, but me and my sister also have, ADD, anxiety, and depression. Yep weve been diagnosed with the exact same things, and shes 3 years younger than me. She also has anger issues. I used to, i went to phycological training to gain control over it without meds. My sisters therapy since we cant see a conselor anymore is her passion, cooking. Cooking helps her relax, and focus. It literally calms her so none of the problems she has bothers her. We both found ways to control it without taking meds for it.

Yeah baking is relaxing for me... but i dont really like my kitchen so its hard for me to get in the mode.

@embracemthrhd2 hmm maybe you can figure something out