How to Quit Drinking Coffee
Growing up, I was disgusted that my parents both drank black coffee every morning. I’d try it and it’d burn my mouth. The taste was so nasty that I’d have to brush my teeth after just to get the taste out!Fast-forward into my college years… Somewhere between exams and partying, I developed a taste for that brown water. It could have been a girlfriend who worked at the coffee shop where I studied who gave me free drinks, or maybe it was the prestige of drinking an espresso after dinner. Whatever the reason, I was hooked.
Over the course of the next 3 years, I was a coffee fanatic! Starbucks, home brewed, McDonalds, double shots of espresso, triple shots of espresso in coffee with heavy cream. It didn’t stop there. Monster Energy Drinks were a favorite of mine when I had to work, then class, then party at night.
Ever hear of a Monster BFC?I’d do 2 pounds of sugary caffeine loaded energy soda in the morning for breakfast, then coke with my Jack Daniels at night.
I was a caffeine monster! I couldn’t help myself.
It was this crazy cycle of not having enough energy, and always drinking more coffee or having another Monster (hey, 2 for $5 was a steal!). I remember waking up for class and being so exhausted, so I’d reach in the fridge and grab a Monster from my recently purchased case.
Once I decided to take accountability for my life, I looked into caffeine. Did I really need all that caffeine to stay awake, or was it some sort of cycle that kept me tired and gave me a false sense of energy? Was I just caught up in something that I wasn’t aware of?
Yes. I was addicted.
The next suitable thing to do was to slowly start weaning myself off caffeine. I began to limit my coffee intake to 1 cup a day, slowly dropped out the energy drinks. It took me about a month to be fully caffeine free. It was tough, but well worth it.
That’s something you should do tomorrow. Start focusing on your caffeine intake and start to reduce it. We’re talking about giving you REAL, LASTING energy – not some fake alternative. In the next few days, we’ll look into natural ways to give you the energy that the caffeine was pretending to be.
Trust me, you’ll be a lot happier with the change!
Stay Awake!
P.S. Green tea, chocolate and sodas all have caffeine. You’ll want to monitor your intake of those in your journal and see how you feel without them.
Posted in Detox, Transition.
Talk about high-blood-pressure,
Until recently, was addicted to 5-hour energy drinks (shots) and Adderall (legally prescribed though) – anyways, for about a year I thought this stuff was making me perform better. I felt on-top-of-my-game, on top-of-the-world, Nothing could stop me… the sky was the limit. I’m talking super-human type of sh*t.
So what made me stop…
Well for one, I didn’t want my Heart to EXPLODE. And secondly, I KNEW that it was not healthy.. I was just in denial. It wasn’t easy going off my “Energy Drinks” and it damn well wasn’t easy going off Adderall.
But I Promise you this: It’s worth it! Obviously, from a health perspective it’s worth it, but after a few months you’ll begin to notice that your PRODUCTIVITY actually INCREASES (something that these “magical drugs claim to do, but don’t)!
Living a healthy lifestyle is not easy for 99% of us, but I once read a quote and under the quote was a picture of an old man holding a baby in his frail arms, the quote read:
“We’re all born young and die old, how you look in-between is up to you.”
It was actually a Muscle Fitness Magazine ad, but I think in many ways the quote can apply to this wonderful article on rawandfit.com. There is only one healthy-fix to More Energy and a Sexy Appeal. It’s called Healthy Lifestyle. It’s a LIFE choice, not a shopping mall product-price decision.
The information is out there, in-fact, it’s right here! THANKS for this wonderful article (I needed somewhere to vent)..
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